[Roger has emailed his journal update taken from notes he made. Fiona]
30th May - Tabriz to 15 miles short of Miynneh. 82 miles total. First 25 miles hard work strong side wind and deceptive climb with lorries constantly passing by revving and belching out black smoke. Much improvement after BOSTANABAD, more fertile pastoral terrain with excellent progress, stop at 6.30 pm at excellent rough campsite by river. An overall good day. Will go to bed early and start early. No phone signal for the first time ever but personal journal written up.
Following notes extracted from personal diary which was completed from rough notes taken whilst in hospital and on leaving hospital plus from information obtained from questioning events.
31st May - 0830 am 10 miles after leaving rough campsite I am struck by minibus in road tunnel. Knocked unconsious and have no memory of the event. Complete memory loss until mid afternoon. Fairly quickly taken to Miyenneh hospital who do temporary repair and taken to Tabriz Emamreiza Hospital 167 km away at 1100 am arriving Tabriz 2 pm where I have a vague memory of arrival and recall vomitting on hospital floor. I am operated on at 3pm by Hussein Ghashemi (General Student Surgeon) he has done 8 out of 11years to become a general surgeon. The flesh on top of my head on the left hand side was apparently peeled away with bone showing underneath!
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