We got up rather late, so as to let Klara recover from the previous day's sickness and when we did headed towards the Hasht Behesht Liyana Café, which had since the first day become our most popularly attended Café and Tea house.
Ther's something special and exquisite about this place, whether it is the unique decoration or just the way one of the owners prepares what we have asked for. As we sat I kept on looking at the decorative details, even if when it came to the visitors' opinions I'd never know what had been written. What subtlety ... artistry and good taste ...
Hamid had invited us to join his tourist class, so we were supposed to meet him outside the old Mosque in the ancient quarter. As we were waiting a few young kids approached us in both a shy and bold way.
Hamid's tourist course colleagues were fairly numerous. Each was supposedly going to become an expert touristic guide in a different foreign language, so I ended up having to express myself in French, English and German (as well as a few words in Mandarin) as we listened to the teacher's explanations, which were very precious. This 500 year old oil pressing workshop is one the very few remaining ones in Isfahan. It played an important role in the past and as far as historic importance is concerned still does. We were impressed by the machinery and the exquisite pressing procedures we came across.
I was particularly happy we accepted Hamid's invitation. The only thing I felt was missing was a good understanding of the Parsi language, because it would have made an inevitably big difference. I decided there and then that that should be one of my 2019 challenges, as I stood for the group pictures.
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