(Greetings of the Season & Best wishes for Christmas 2023 and New Year 2024) Photo: An angler throws groundbait, hoping to attract fish...

Time for an off-topic post. Forty-eight years ago this week, on October 24th, 1975, my pal Jake and I arrived in the evening at...

Musings on a war film that was well before it's time. (As this has nothing to do with Hungary or central Europe, I'll put it in my little...

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...