Cycling in a group of four in Iran attracts a great deal of attention. We got used to posing in dozens of pictures a day with local people and repeating our nationality all the time. For a change and entertainment we started to vary our countries of origin, and eventually we were from Iceland, Morocco and Kenya (!). We found this kind of funny for a while. After confusing one young lad at a beach at Caspian Sea, we went back to our real nationalities.
After the encounter we raced to swim accidentally on the women’s side of the beach and got called out of the water in a minute by a police, who took us to a private beach next to the public one.
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