Lighting out for the territory nce more in the Middle East. The more I travel the more I want to travel and the longer that I am out of England the happier I am. At present in Iraq and having a wonderful time. really fallen in love with the country and the people. Very glad I came and

About pecosbiff

Photo Galleries

• Basra - around town [31]
• Iraq - The Marshes [35]
• Basra - the Jewish merchants' houses [34]
• Saddam Hussein's palace at Babylon [15]
• Babylon [24]
• Baghdad Central Station [25]
• National Museum of Iraq [32]
• Baghdad [17]
• A confession [2]
• Damascus last day - 2 [22]
• Damascus - last day [22]
• A trip to Quneitra [20]
• Damascus [22]
• The Road to Damascus [5]
• Apamea [12]
• Drive thru the mountains of Syria [15]
• Crusader fort, Arwad Island [10]
• Arwad Island [17]
• Tartous port [16]
• Tartous aka Tortosa [28]
• Hama to Tartous by bus [11]
• Hama [20]
• Krak! [17]
• Baalbek [12]
• Sidon [17]
• Tyre, South Lebanon [11]
• Tyre, South Lebanon [18]
• Tyre, South Lebanon [13]
• Beirut, Lebanon 14th Febraury 2010 [16]
• Around Beirut [10]
• dogs n whales n bear n sunset [26]
• Churchill [25]
• Flying to Churchill [20]
• Winnipeg [23]
• Aboard the Canadienne! [41]
• Toronto [46]
• Dry Land! [45]
• Still onboard [53]
• Onboard [70]
• Tarragona, Spain [24]
• Freighter to Canada [14]
• day trip to Nervi [9]
• Genova [29]
• This is England [31]
• Exciting trip to airport [25]
• Damascus [6]
• Old city - very, very [103]
• Damascus at last [22]
• On to Damascus [19]
• The rest of Baalbek [20]
• Temple of Jupiter - details [24]
• Baalbek [19]
• Tripoli - Beirut - Baalbek [30]
• Channel surfing [14]
• Back home in Tripoli [23]
• Byblos [27]
• Tripoli [11]
• Lebanon- Tripoli (Trablous) [33]
• Off to Lebanon at 160 kph [7]
• Day trip outside Latakia [16]
• Latakia by the sea [15]
• Aleppo to Latakia [23]
• Aleppo [51]
• Syria Aleppo [36]
• Istanbul again! [39]
• Vienna to Istanbul [69]
• Chesterfield to Vienna [97]
• russia [24]
• Irkutsk [5]
• Train people [12]
• Khabarovsk [6]
• Vlad - statues, kids and trains [8]
• Vladivostok-by-the-sea [6]
• Bus to Vladivostok [3]
• Suifenhe [5]
• Harbin, NE China [7]
• Beijing [15]
• Train from Lhasa to Beijing [13]
• Lhasa, Oh Lhasa [11]
• Mountains, passes, lakes [13]
• On the road in Tibet [14]
• Off to Tibet! [12]
• The end of KTM [16]
• Pokhara and back [10]
• KTM [8]
• Long trip to Kathmandu [6]
• Goodbye Varanasi [6]
• The Ganges [10]
• To Varanasi [9]
• Delhi [10]
• On to Delhi [9]
• Amritsar [4]
• Lahore [8]
• Quetta [8]
• Taftan to Quetta, the other tricky bit [9]
• Road to the border [10]
• Bam [8]
• Train to Kerman, bus to Bam [10]
• Iran - Yazd [16]
• Iran -Esfahan [15]
• Iran - Tehran [12]
• The Ferry across Lake Van [8]
• Still on the train [6]
• Train to Tehran [9]
• The last of Istanbul [6]
• Istanbul [7]
• Romania [4]
• Derbyshire to Hungary [7]

Where I've been

Austria   Canada   China   France   Germany   Gibraltar   Hungary   India   Iran   Iraq   Italy   Lebanon   Nepal   Pakistan   Panama   Romania   Russian Federation   Spain   Syria   Turkey   United Kingdom  

Favourites

• Favourite Stories [2]
• Who's Favourited Me [1]

Highlights

• Mon 21st Oct - Bam
• Wed 15th Oct - Esfahan
• The Party on Wheels!
• Goodbye, Istanbul
• How it should be
• Mon 6th Oct - Istanbul
• Sun 5th Oct - Istanbul
• Fri 3 Oct - Istanbul
• Sun 28 + Mon 29 Sept - Bucharest to Istanbul
• Sat 27 Sept - Sighisoara

Near Misses

• 1st - 2nd December - Khabarovsk
• Mon 17th Nov - Xigatse
• Saturday 1st November - Varanasi to Nepal
• Fri 31st Oct - leaving India
• Thursday 30th Oct - Varanasi
• Mon 13th Oct - Tehran

My trip journals

• Iraq 2010 (current)
• Lebanon and Syria 2010
• Chesterfield to Canada by train and freighter
• Chesterfield to Syria by train
• Kathmandu to Chesterfield
• Derbyshire - Delhi by train