Minaret at Mosque dedicated to Zaynab, grand-daughter of the Prophet pbuh near Damascus. A modern Iranian built minaret at an ancient shrine.
Yemeni woman selling handmade baskets
Minaret Bokhara covered in thousands of coloured tiles in intricate patterns
Hungarian women in traditional dress
Lyngen Peninsula ferry north Norway
Familiar sight in Eastern Hungary
Cargo boat on Kerala canals, India
Storks on their annual holidays to Hungary
Kathakali performer engaged in make-up. S India
Ridge walk above Svartisen
Fellow travellers, Lalibela
Walnut tree in church yard. Fortified churches are the oldest buildings in many places
Arctic summer sunset
Ganges fisherman homeward bound
Heading into the wilderness. Central Sahara
Forest Arabesque, northern Sweden
Everybody travels, whether going down to the market, tramping across hillsides at the weekend, taking holidays, travelling in the imagination from your armchair or undertaking a full-scale expedition.
In ages past, the main reasons for moving around voluntarily would have been in search of seasonal or scattered resources, or as a pilgrimage to try and improve your lot on earth or in the afterlife, involuntary travel might involve being captured and deported as a slave or conscripted in somebody’s army !
Nowadays, people can travel at the drop of a credit card, and it is one of the largest businesses in the world, some countries almost entirely dependent on tourism
You’ll find pleasures, dreams, nightmares and plenty of irreverent humour bundled together with the philosophical insights from people who have been in places long enough to buy their second tube of toothpaste !
Steve McHardy on the equatorCarl Welsby in his prime !Bob rolling a fag above Petra
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