Author: James Handlon

Overseas Traveller, Would-be Mountaineer, Skier, Hiker & Occasional Idiotic Adventurer.

Foto Friday – The Prague Metro

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Prague Metro

When I visited Prague I used the city’s metro system extensively to travel around, it was both efficient and quick. But purchasing a ticket for the journey however was possibly the hardest and slowest task I’ve experienced anywhere in the world.

While waiting on the platform by fluke I managed to snap this train as it sped into the station, no special settings just a snap and hope job.

Some stats: the Prague metro carries around 400 million passengers a year makiing it the seventh busiest metro system in Europe. It’s 30 years old and is mostly Russian-built.

We have a limited time on earth!

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We have a limited time!

“It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Foto Friday – Felucca upon the Nile

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Felucca upon the Nile

A lone Felucca drifts along the Nile at Aswan in the late afternoon. This photograph was taken while strolling around the gardens on Elephantine Island. The island has a long ancient history of habitation probably due to the fact that it is near the first Cataract of the Nile which provided a natural boundary between Egypt and Nubia.

Foto Friday – Tinfou sand dunes, Zagora, Morocco

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Tinfou sand dunes, Zagora

In 2007 I crossed the Atlas Mountains to the fringes of the Sahara Desert by 4WD where we then stayed at a Berber camp amongst the sand dunes.

For the final leg to get to the camp we travelled on camels through a sandstorm and ended up being the only people that made it through that night.

But in the morning we were greeted by one of the most stunning sunrises I have ever seen anywhere in the world. I love the colours in this shot with the mountains in the far distance which is why it has been picked today for Foto Friday.