When I go riding on my bike, the world around me becomes exciting and so elegant all at once, so despite the shortcomings, disasters and horrors… I embrace it. I know it is not just me having these feelings, but I’m definitely another nature lover looking for unanswered questions in an extraordinary manner as well. I cherish the pictures caught by my camera and the ones remained forever in my essence.
29 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
When I met the leader of a cycling group, he advised me, like many girls in northern Iran, to enjoy the gift of cycling. Fearing the critical and harsh views of the people and not wanting to be finger-pointing, I started making excuses: "I do not ha...
28 Oct 2020 2 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr
Hiking in the north mountains with a new group and start of a new path in my life ... The mountains had a different look in the fall, and we took a rough, uphill route. Although at the beginning of the journey I seemed a little out of place and feebl...
27 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
Going hiking with a group of men I didn’t know… The twilight of the morning is incredibly gorgeous. And it plunges you into an invisible sense of fascination. As we drove to the hiking spot, I could feel the dark silence of the dying night, which w...
26 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
My friend introduced me to some nature lovers as I insisted on going along so badly, they agreed to meet me for their next adventure for hiking. The day of the meeting with the hikers was an interesting day for me and I never forget how nervous I wa...
25 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
I have dreamed of cycling for many years, but living in a religious and strict society that condemned it for girls and being finger-pointed in the eyes of others kept me from this long-standing pleasure and desire. Was people's point of view so impo...
24 Oct 2020 1 minute read 9 comments Melina Mehr
When I was 9 years old, they taught me girls should be modest! They shouldn’t laugh out loud! They shouldn’t show their teeth to strangers while laughing and be the instigators of sin!!! They must wear tight Hijab! And only their faces are allowed t...
22 Oct 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr
Every decision has a beginning in everyone's life. When did I first become interested in bicycles? And how did I get here? For remembering my first cycling experiences, I have to go back in time, but I do not stay in the past too much because my mem...
21 Oct 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
How much I wanted to step into the clear water of the pond and watch up-close the clear, diamond-like drops of water falling from a height of 50 meters. The waterfall resembled a mysterious and tall statue that emerged from the heart of the mountain...
20 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
We ate a fairly good breakfast. As always, I made apple cake and put it in the Tupperware along with the eggs and tomatoes in my backpack. Everyone brought something, Barbari bread and cheese, grapes, cucumbers and tomatoes, jam and cream, and Oli...
19 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
Standing on the edge and I had to come down, there was no other way, just down… I put a foot forward and moved ahead involuntarily. I was so scared that I could not see myself shaking and laughing helplessly. I would move little by little and the te...
