Shop sign seen in a small town in Austria.

 Time for a break from cars. I recently came across this photo which I took south of Innsbruck in Austria last year. It really is Austria ...

Two photos taken at dawn on the outskirts of Mandalay in Myanmar.I was an unusual sight for the locals-a westerner out so early with a...

I'm really not into trains except cog railways that do the apparently impossible and climb very steep mountains.One of the best of...

The rainy days sequence in the previous post  below has been so well received-thanks for the emails-that I though that I should add ...

The craziest or perhaps bravest thing I have seen in 2014 has to be the young ski jumpers practicing in mid June on the ski jump in I...

The world's population it seems can be divided into 4 distinct groups-those who like cats, those who like dogs, those who li...

Whilst the Porsche museum in Stuttgart is deservedly the museum for Porsche enthusiasts there is an interesting private Porsche museum in Gm...

I'm very fortunate to have done an amazing amount of travelling over the years and particularly in the last two years so I have never be...

The couple above were performing in a street festival in Salzburg right below our hotel room window in the heart of the old city a few...

I do not understand the obsession so many women have with shoes.Serious shoe collectors are well served in both Austria and Germany where th...

Every town in Austria and Germany seems to have at least one jewellers.And they are invairably very well stocked with jewellery and watches ...