After Nicolas had applied for a new passport at the Canadian embassy in Bangkok (which, in all fairness, was a relatively painless procedure), and faced with a wait of up to fifteen working days (the German embassy – in Laos! – issued passports to their nationals as soon as details of the last passport were …
For a country with an average monthly income of around $100, there are an astonishing number of late-model sport utility vehicles – and more pickup trucks than you’d see on an Alberta highway. There is a tax of 100% on these so the price must be around $50,000 for the ubiquitous Toyota Hilux pickups. (Note: …
All photos in this post are courtesy of Anton Ponomarenko. Thanks, Anton Climbed in the afternoon on New Year’s Eve, more or less resigned (comfortable even) that I wasn’t going to maintain my string of climbing 5.11 or equivalent every year since 1975. Too bad, but it had to end some time and the year …