There is the Iran with its many-splendoured past celebrated in countless coffee table books. There is the Iran of the guidebooks and the internet. This is a completely personal, unabashedly subjective account of a journey that gets all its “priorities” delightfully wrong. driving past the grand and the spectacular at breathtaking speed, pausing instead for little details for what seems like eternity. Indeed travelling in Iran is discovering layers as rich and loaded as the baklava. And there’s no time like now.