In the ridiculously long, and so moving queue for foreign nationals to get through immigration at the airport in Tehran, it began to occur...

So from time to time you might find yourself asking questions about your faith - and despite the literal word of God having been given to...

A picture equals a 1,000 words...so here are 3,000 words of sheer beauty showing the morning sun shining through the coloured glass at the ...

Rising up over on the edge of town, with a back drop of a spine of steep,snow capped  stands one of the oldest and most striking places in ...

There is a sometimes confronting culture in Iran that is expressed as taarof, which literally means as my guest. It covers everything from ...

The old city of Yazd is a sight to behold, a rabbit warren of narrow curving lanes often covered over and made from adobe, with a rou...

Sometimes you get the feeling that in the recent past Iran was preparing for a boom, with lavish spending on infrastructure, but sadly it j...

After having watched the flat, rocky desert out of the train window for 12 hours I am seduced in to taking a tour to go and see the real de...

The Arg-e Bam or Bam Citadel is an impressive site, despite half of the place remaining in ruins. Once the largest adob...

Deciding early in the morning that two days in Tehran was enough I managed to secure a train ticket to Bam, the only challenge being I had a...

As is often depictured about Iran, since the revolution, woman are required to cover themselves when in public, or in the view of male non-r...

The idiosyncrasies of the Iranian regime has gone some way to non Iranians forgetting the madness of the Shah prior to the revolution. That ...

The city scape in Tehran is a fairly ugly affair, plenty of concrete, mixed with the thick haze of pollution, which slightly obscures the dr...

I am using the excuse that I only brought my snowboarding gear to Iran because I had it in Japan and it was cheaper to fly with it than leav...

I awake to a cold morning in Karaj - a far flung suburb wedged between Tehran and the mountains. Surprisingly I have slept well and immediat...

A brief stroll through a down town Tehran park and I stumble on some flamingos.. Iran surprise #81

As we approach Tehran below us the sprawling city is blanketed in snow...although I brought my snnowboarding gear from Japan, it still doesn...

So sayonara to Japan and I am on my way to Iran....with a 9 hour stop over in Abu Dhabi. As I step of the plane, walking down the stairs the...

So at 1am this morning I got on a Singapore airlines flight from Singapore to Japan, however even in my delirious state I noticed a stark d...

Action a plenty at the bus terminal in San Miguel, El Salvador...and yes that is a shotgun across the guys lap on the left, the weapon of...

Daring to go where few freedom loving loiterers go, LWAT v Mao, smack down in T Square . Perceptive viewers will note the disapproving grima...

Spotted this little beauty in front of a new pedestrian mall in the middle of Beijing. From best I can work out it is trying to say the fol...

As you prescient readers have noticed I have laid off the blogging for the last little while. There are two reasons, firstly I basically tra...

By methods fair or foul (I suspect bribes of free computer lessons were involved) my parents managed to get my little story about Damo and I...

I arrived on the outskirts of St Petersburg just as it was getting dark (around 10pm) and suddenly we went from a narrow, pot holed goat tra...