Day 150 Qazvin

Rest day! Sleeping, eating, relaxing!
Surprisingly we still got some things done - after some organizational errands (money change, recharge mobile...) we had a look around Qazvin. On the first view it looked like just another iranian city - many shops, busy traffic etc. But we found some very beautiful parts of town. The basar is very atmospheric and it contains a very nice central place with a mosque and 4 magnificant iwans (portals). On the basar I even found some metal parts which I could misuse to repair my front carrier - it looks pretty adventurous but according to my theory it should work - I am really curious if I am right.
After crossing the basar and some asking around we found a hamam. In Turkey there was one in every small town, but in Iran they are much rarer. After so many so cold days we were very happy to find this one. It was not as splendid and not even as warm as the ones in Turkey but it had a great massage master. He took the term 'full-body massage' very seriously - he used his full body: standing with his feet on your back or legs while massaging with his hands. He certainly knew what he was doing and we felt seriously relaxed when afterwards we had tea and chat/farsi-learning-session with some local men. We only got out of the hamam after sunset. I quickly fixed my front carrier while Yannik aquired a less wild look at a barber. The rest of the evening we spent at a coffeenet and with eating and trying out more flavours of iranian non-alcoholic beer. While 'Tropic' and 'Exotic' are exactly as bad as you would expect from any drink with such label pomegranade is actually pretty good.