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Dear all,

I've just been told my visa request for Iran has been rejected. They didn't even bother to explain why. Chances are we'll be spending the rest of our journey in Turkey. As the Middle East is still in turmoil we don't think it wise to head south. A possible alternative would be: Caucasus => Caspian Sea => Kazakhstan, but we are not informed well enough about this option to rely on it blindly. Will keep you posted!

Yuri

Dear all,

Because of some time pressure in reaching Istanbul 'in time' (read: incoming girlfriends), Yuri and I cheated a bit the last two days. First off we travelled almost the whole of Montenegro by bus, to sleep in it's capital Podgorica. We were allowed to sleep on the abandoned upper floor of a house still under construction - a luxurious sleepover compared to camping in one of the dark wastelands surrounding the city. The next morning we woke up to find our coffees ready and afterward headed for the border with Albania. What awaited us was beyond my wildest expectations:

Dear hosts and hostesses,