Holi; the colour festival.

The pink city, city palace and colourful textiles.

Graffiti on the Taj Mahal and some of the nastiest touts in India.

Intricate carved, stone window screens, Mughal palaces and Sadhus.

Cows that want to lick Alex and lots of erotic sculpture.

Burning ghats, pyres, bathing in the Ganges to absolve all sin, being cremated here to immediately attain moksha.

Dirty Delhi. Leprosy, urine and garbage.

Empty temples that rival Ankar Wat. Bhaang-fueled fire-walking festival.

Carved cave temples. BEWARE OF THE MONKEY MENACE.

British colonial architecture, Jain temples, slums, prostitutes and PEOPLE!

New Years, beaches, palm trees, cows? Portuguese colonial remnants, sunset dinners with Alexa, colourful flea markets, Bollywood film extra experience and some trance.

The holiest of Sikh places; The Golden Temple.

Merry Xmas, cheap, illicit gin and sufi music. Oh, and dancing.

Rickshaws, crazy turbans, street markets, burqahs and the gentle, old watch maker.

Desert border town. Vast burning junkyards, food poisoning, smugglers, goats and the Al-Qaida. One of the most exotic places we've been.

Gentle people, long, fire-lit nights, sheep, ancient mother, 90 member families, tents and children.

Heroic, Islamic, Sufi sport.

Zoroastrian fire temple and towers of silence, abandoned mud-brick cities in the desert and the sound of water dripping in a cave.

Blue-tiled mosques, the sugar maker and the desert.

Endless Islamic architecture, mosques, reflecting pools and bridges.

Exotic ruins in the desert.

The leaning tower of Islam? Bazaars, graffiti, "hubble-bubble" and some falafel boys.

A real Iranian wedding, the Caspian Sea, Hamzeh's father's house and our wonderful Iranian friends.

Mirrored palaces, artifacts, hookah, superb Iranian hospitality with Leylah and Hussein and a walk in a lover's valley.

Hassan Saba Castle a.k.a. the home of the Hashashim (from whence the word Hashish came) and Taekwondo.

Chadors, mosques and smoking late night ghelyan with our good friend Hamzeh and the gang who took us in and treated us like royalty.

Ishak Pasha Palace and Mt. Ararat.

Cold and old with minarets.

Gokmen's delightful hospitality, fresh bread, young guides and a sunset tour of a dissolving castle.

Generous Kurdish hospitality where we met Gokmen and Firat and their gang, a pushi, crumbling city walls, ancient buildings and a kurdish wedding.

Ancient Roman and Greek citied, Arsameia, Mithras, and the heads of giant gods and kings on a mountain tomb at sunset.

Bazaars, Ibrahim's pool, head-scarved worshippers, cai and garlic.

A sunken city and the generosity of strangers.

Artisans, copper, steel, horse shoes the saddle maker.

Aya Sofia, the Blue Mosque, rainbows in the Grand Bazaar, the Bosphorus and Topkapi Palace.

A quaint village that stands on the location of very ancient civilizations, turtles, olives and that goat.

Ancient ruins, the library of Celcius, marble, Bes, Emperor Domitian, Zeus and Artemis.

Flowing white tavertines at dawn and Hierapolis.

Inspirational fairy chimneys, camels, village life and a valley full of frescoed rock-cut churches.

Precarious fairy chimneys in the Zelve valley, the LOVE valley, desert flowers and christian hiding places.

Frescoes in cave churches and entire underground cities.

In the desert, smoking nargileh, intricate Korans and an abandoned caravanserai.

Lycian legend, fire from the ground, tree houses and a quiet stone beach with a donkey that liked Alida.

Our first taste of nargileh, some friendly old ladies or trolls, Lycian tombs and a windy coastal road.

A peaceful seaside town, a village crumbling on a hillside emptied by population exchanges, a furious rainstorm and a flood.

A sunny boat trip, a turtle beach and a mud bath.

Fairytale medieval city .

Peeling multicoloured paint of an abandoned building.

A dawn arrival, blindingly-bright, flowing, white washed buildings capping treacherous caldera peaks, long scooter explorations and a chilled beach resort.

The population in their boxes, the ancient Acropolis, artifacts and even some demonstrations.

The temple of Apollo; home of the famous oracle.

Monasteries precariously hidden on mountain peaks, an ossuary and briam.

Bright colours, some very rowdy parties, the moon and a pink "palace."

A wonderful living medieval castle.

Abandoned creepy hospital.

Sunny day playing in water every stunning shade of blue, snorkling , boating, pink sunsets and a dragon cave.

A crumbling Roman city.

23, bubble waterfalls in the lush green, an old lady with some vegetables and Alex fondling some garlic.

A Byzantine church, a pagan blood alter and some very blue skies.

A peaceful sea-side village, come gory Cappucine art and some HOT.

Rijeka is Alida's hometown.

Ancient churches, Glagolitic scripts, a painting of the devil, Croation coastline, white stone, azure water, ferries, sunsets and crumbling buildings.

A gorgeous medieval town perched on an island, peeling paint, crumbling plaster and an amphitheater.

Motovun; medieval mountain top village. Gory biblical scenes in the abandoned St. Mary's, Skrilljinah.

Textures, stencil art, Pollock, Lucien Freud, a cemetary island and brilliant glass.

Canals, gondolas, decay and an afternoon's walk through a less populous part of Venice.

Canals, gondolas, sparkling masks , fire-spinners in St. Marco's, the Doge's Palace and a small flood.

Misty nights, Mozart, tortured horses, pretzels and an audio installation.

Picking apples and haunting sculptures made from human bones.

The Charles, the moon, Gothic everything, amazing churches, ribbed columns, stained glass, armour, Baroque scrolls, absinth, technology, modern art and a Jewish graveyard.

Fantasy, medieval, fairytale village.

Some very futuristic architecture in a very old-world city.

Meeting up with Alida, Crumbling alleys, guilded sculpture and clock towers.

Street food stalls, spring rolls, pad thai, dried squid and a long plane ride.

Tropical islandes with white beach sand, rainforests, nice cold bear and a giant German.

A tropical rainforest, a very rickety bridge, a very rickety bamboo raft, rice paddies, an elephant ride and a long necked girl playing soccer with a big-eared girl.

Rainforests, waterfalls, an epic motorcycle journey and some fish in a cave.

Peaceful, ornate Buddhist temples.

Meeting-up with Tony, buckets of whiskey and coke and one very strange beard.

Motoring through the Taroko Gorge on rented scooters, staying with a Hospitatlity Club friend in Taipei and 24h at the airport after a missed flight.

A spacious gallery, a rock maze and some pretty flowers.

Alex's cute students.

A typhoon and a strange rain stopping contraption.

Temple with thousands and thousands of golden Buddha statues.