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Change of Plans: After Abyaneh, We Head to Isfahan and Shahreza!

Leonardo Paolino,

In the previous week, in the run-up to our trip to Iran, I shared with you our itinerary. However, when we arrived at our destination, we had to make some changes. Originally after Abyaneh, we should have headed towards Shiraz but to be able to make the most of our time on Sunday, we headed towards Isfahan instead.

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Days 1-3: Finally in Iran! Let the Adventure Commence!

Leonardo Paolino,

Finally in Iran! We arrived on Friday midnight. After passing through a long process in airport immigration (we spent three and a half hours before finally getting out of the airport), we went directly to the hotel and still started our day early as planned. 

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Bike Adventure Packing List: Iran Awaits!

Leonardo Paolino,

The big day has finally come! At 12 midnight we will be landing in Tehran. From there, its just me, my mountain bike and my friends Marco, Claudio, Gigi and Angelo all to explore the Iran.

As we've mentioned in a couple of our previous posts (part 1, part 2 and part 3), this won't be an ordinary tour on a tour bus. We will be exploring some of the places less travelled and isolated sites within Iran through a mountain bike. It will surely be a great adventure. But no matter how unconventional this trip is, there are still things that won't change - packing a suitcase for one. 

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Iran By Mountain Bike

Leonardo Paolino,

Just one more day until I leave for Iran and I'm really feeling the excitement! We're just ironing out the last few details of our trip while waiting for a flight that will take us to Tehran.

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Iran Discovery Trip: Our First Days

Leonardo Paolino,

It’s T-minus two days until our biking trip to Iran and we’re excited. Cities to visit, villages to discover and natural wonders to behold. Before leaving, I just wanted to leave a quick update on the route planned for the first leg of our journey.

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Biking from Tehran to Isfahan: Extra Prepares For An Adventure!

Leonardo Paolino,

It's not our first time, either personally, or even as a company, that we've dealt with Iran. Speaking for myself, I always found the Middle east very interesting from my own personal curiousity and for business reasons.

Now, more than ever, the Middle East continues to be a place of interest especially when a young Iranian joined Extra a few years ago, Hossein, who now heads our Marketing Department. In fact, my first trip to Iran dates back exactly two years ago and with Hossein's help, I was able to discover closely one of the oldest civilizations in the world, ancient Persia.

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Dads in IT recount how their kids surprised them using technology

Dario Di Pietrantonio. Advertising director,

This Father's Day, Extra's dads in IT share some of the lighthearted moments when even they were surprised by the tech-savviness of their kids.

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Recent study: Girls beat boys at programming

Dario Di Pietrantonio. Advertising director,

There you go. The statistics have it: women are better at programming than men. In a recent, pre-peer reviewed study titled, 'Gender bias in Open Source: Pull Request Acceptance of Men vs. Women', researchers have found that computer code written by women have higher approval ratings than those written by men.

The study was made on GitHub, an open source program-sharing site and 1.4 million users. You can read more about it in this article. The study is a vote of confidence in women and here is what Extra's own women programmers had to say:

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