Just spent 36 hours with my father, he gave me a plastic bag full of photos of Nadette and my first trip to Asia in 1990. Asia was a very different place back then and travel was long and some times arduous. No phones, no Internet, no digital devices, it was great. If you wanted to ring back to Europe you’d have to book the call the day before and it would cost about 5 quid for a few minutes. No whatsap skype etc. The only way to get mail was to give people a rough idea where you might be on a month by month basis and go to the post office in the town in question and check out the “Poste restante”. Of course cameras all used film and we carried our 25 rolls of film with us until the end and got them developed once we got home. So photography was a careful business of composing the shot as you only got one go at it.
See some of the photos here below, also on instagram…. (I know)
New Delhi PaharganjRecycling unitVegetarian ThaliBoat Maker VaranasiNose piercing Udaipur RajasthanUdaipurMetal WorkSteam Train Jodphur RajasthanSteam Train Jodphur RajasthanSteam Train Jodphur RajasthanRajasthani Men, great beardsClose shaveJaiselmerAgra Eye…. Big Wheel
NadetteHotel Lotus, all time favourite, PushkarHotel Lotus, all time favourite, PushkarBath Time,Hotel Lotus, PushkarMount Abu, Roti man, relaxesCamel safari, JaiselmerGirl in desert villageTailor, JaiselmerGanges Swimming, RishikeshJohn, NepalLittle boy, Kathmanduwedding, KathmanduBoy at Chai stall, KathmanduBus Journey, on the roofMoto Golden Triangle, ThailandTribal boy, Golden Triangle, ThailandFloating marketShady Shack, Koh Samui, (not like this anymore AT ALLSomewhere on the way to Malaysia, photo by Dale SpoonleyDale Spoonley, the swimmer, MalaysiaMalaysiaBeach Monkey, Java, IndonesiaMount Bromo, Java, IndonesiaOld man with his prize fighting cock, Ubud, BaliGili Meno, heaven, not at all like this anymoreBus Journey, Flores, IndonesiaKomodoRoad Trains , Northern Territory, AustraliaRoad Trains , Northern Territory, AustraliaWrecks , Queensland, AustraliaNice old fella, Camooweal, Queensland, AustraliaNice old fella, Camooweal, Queensland, AustraliaMac, Brisbane Harcourt Street, nice guy not seen or heard from him since
Asia 1990 a Six month mainly overland trip to OZ
We have been back many times to Asia over the years, the biggest change is India, our favourite country and much easier to travel in these days, “Incredible India”
Blue Tit and Goldfinch feeding on the Beara Peninsula County Cork Ireland. In the autumn lots of birds feed in the garden on our nut feeder and fat ball.
