So our Shiraz odessey continues. Following our day of testing the truck and the lack of a clear conclusion Mr H and I decided to explore more seriously the possibility that we could get (source) new genuine Unimog parts to replace all the suspect parts in that right rear hub. It took a couple of days of chasing around but by Wed 9th we concluded that such a plan seemed feasible. Thereafter we (Mr H and I) spent a couple of days with more chasing around and more phone calls to set such a plan in motion. So as of Friday 11th we seemed to have organized to source the parts and have them delivered to Shiraz. The bad news is that it is going to be expensive ($6000+) and slow - at the earliest the parts will not be in Shiraz until Friday 18th and they could be considerably later than that. Just to make things more interesting this means we will have to extend our visas as our current visas only last until Oct 23rd.
Now Nina is getting a bit bored with all this truck stuff and the prospect of hanging around in a hotel in Shiraz for another couple of weeks is beyond her tolerance, so she has come up with a plan to do a little execursion to Tehran. Just to fill in some of the time you understand. So today (Sat 12th) we will take a night bus to Tehran, spend a couple of nights there and then return on an overnight bus to be back in Shiraz Wed 16th by which time our new truck parts should have completed the first leg of their journey to Shiraz.