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

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]

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]

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

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