Making tomato sauce in Turkey. I am now contributing most images to a travel site on Facebook.

treading the fruit

note the voluminous trousers; cuffed at the ankle, they are worn whilst treading the fruit

stirring the sauce

pictures of ancient Syrian villages like stepping back in time

donkey sheltering in the shade of a wall.

lady feeding hens

two children asleep in the shade

drawing water

a  turkey oblivious of its fate as it wanders in front of ovens

the interior of a house showing tin plates on a shelf with an embroidered valance 

Pictures of Palmyra in Syria before it was damaged in the recent hostilities.

the Great Colonnade

Temple of Bel

the Theatre

in the glow of evening

early morning light

These pictures from China are my final contribution from book 1.

Xuankong Hanging Temple

image in Yungang Grottos

karst mountains providing a misty backdrop to the Li River

temple guardian

Africa continued

a local restaurant

wooden architecture in Zanzibar

ancient doorway in Zanzibar

the mighty Victoria Falls

more pictures from Africa

interesting faces

barbershop

vultures on the carcass of an elephant

beating his chest

Beginning a series of photographs from my first overland trip through Africa. They appear, with many more, in book 1.

pushing the truck - unfortunately a common occurrence!

Masai ladies

keeping a wary watch

we also saw plenty of birdlife

Images of Sapa in Vietnam from book 5

happy girls in a sewing circle

the stepped terraces

a rustic bridge

carrying a load of wood down a village path

mother and baby at the colourful Bac Ha Sunday market

the market was a riot of colour

two delightful pictures of sleeping cats

Ginger cat next to a ceramic cat amid paraphernalia behind a shop window in a Cornish town in England. The sign says it all!

Taken in a market in Essaouira, Morocco

another fascinating English scene: Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset

One of the prettiest villages in England: tiny Eastnor, its houses literally used on chocolate boxes.

reliefs on Ngoc Son Pagoda Hanoi Vietnam

Beginning book 5 with pictures of Vietnam

vendors on the streets of Hanoi