I saw these goats out of the corner of my eye as I was driving past. Such was my excitement that I locked up the brakes and threw the car in a ditch in order to be able to hang out with and take pictures of the goats: Continue reading
Category Archives: Places We Go
Photo Of The Day: Fall From Grace
Imagine being on the ground to take this picture! The photographer was damned close to the action – or just lucky… Continue reading
The Countryside of Belarus
A good way to get a feel for a country you are visiting is to take a train journey through it. Andy, Nigel and I took the train from Minsk to Brest and I snapped these photos to try and provide a better sense of what Belarus is like outside the main cities: Continue reading
Visiting The Museum Of Confiscated Art In Brest, Belarus
One museum in Brest that Andy, Nigel and I enjoyed was the Museum of Confiscated Art (Known locally as the Museum of Salvaged Artistic Values), a display of valuable international art pieces (paintings, sculptures, ceramics) seized by Brest border guards as they were being smuggled out of the country. The museum itself is in an … Continue reading
Visiting Herat, Afghanistan: Part 1 of 2
Herat was a city I was looking forward to. Denied a visa into Iran, I knew Herat with its heavy Persian influence was about as close to Iran as I would get for a while. The city had a history that intrigued me as well. If you want to skip the background, you can just … Continue reading
Searching For Karl Penta’s Suriname & French Guiana
I first became interested in Suriname after Tanja Gromala told me about it. It was after reading Karl Penta’s “Have Gun Will Travel” (the hardcover edition is pictured below), however, that I realized an investigation into Suriname as well as French Guiana by The Velvet Rocket was now compulsory. Here is how the jacket of Penta’s … Continue reading
Photo Of The Day: Take Me With You…
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The Velvet Rocket 