No tourist in their right mind would go to Breyten. But then Jake and I were probably not in our right minds: we drove there, backwards....

Built just after the collapse* of the Austr0-Hungarian Empire, a veteran Class 77 locomotive stands illuminated by shafts of sunlight in...

Every Picture Tells a Story [Don't it?] 30 - only not my piccies this time - but an exhibition in Ljubljana, Slovenia - August 26 -...

Afghanistan - a country where there seems to be no direct translation for the English word "promise" into the local vernaculars - Every...

And note the trendy footware! Every Picture Tells a Story [Don't it]? 29 - In fact, by the time I took this piccie in 1984, our friend...

Every Picture Tells A Story (Don't it?) 28. Early days - Three months in South Africa, 1975 Photo: From memory, this is near the small...

Every Picture Tells a Story [Don't it?] 27 - Far from the Madding (Tourist) Crowd, July 75 I fell in love with this country when I first...

Every Picture Tells a Story [Don't it?] 26: As I took this photo, unbeknown to me, an unholy cloud of dust was rising in the skies above...

Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) 25 - It's Authentic Street Food Here - Updated Photo: This lady graced a page in the Economist...

Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't It?) 24 - UPDATED This photo epitomises my experiences in this country in the first half of the 1970s....

On the Third Night - Syria, a Country where You Didn't Talk Politics - part IV (EPITDASI 23) Photo: Commerce by Pony and Cart. A quiet...

Latakia: Sea, Sun, Sand and Soviet Freighters - Every Picture Tells a Story [Don't it?] 22 Photo: Alas, I can find no prints today from...

Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) 21 Photo: A Bookshop in Damascus - no Thoughts of President Hafez al-Assad in here ​ Continued...

Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) 20 - In one of the Oldest Continously Inhabited Cities in the World, alas, these Ancient Walls...

Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) 19 - Steam and Iron Curtain don't Mix, part VI Photo: I have searched through piles of old FTs,...

Steam and Iron Curtain don't Mix - Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) 18 Photo: This 1965 Ford Taunus and its proud owner may both...

Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) 17 - Steam and Iron Curtain Don't Mix - part 4: Photo: A concrete fort, on the edge of the...

Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) - 16. It's time to cross this bizarre Iron Curtain. ​Photo: A section of the Czechoslovak border...

Part 2: First Forays into Vienna / Lower Austria - Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) - 15 Photo: Strong evening light illuminates...

Czechoslovak Adventure, Winter, 1973 - Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) - 14 A Scene from rural central Europe, taken in 1993....