Overlander Paul Moody was on a road trip from Kinsale to Australia experiencing a breakdown in a remote area of Iran. With only a day left to exit Iran before our transit visas expired, there really wasn’t much time to lose. We are in Balochistan; an area the size of France which is neither a country nor state, but a region that embraces the borders of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Wil and I had taken up the Istanbul to New Delhi part of the drive through Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and into India each with its cross border challenges. Ahmed in his little car guided us out of his neighbourhood back onto tarmac as we drove through the near deserted streets in the direction of the rising sun.

Source: Irish Examiner July 17, 2020 20:15 UTC