Youth Hostelling card first issued to me in Tasmania at age 16 |
First days in Rome with fellow travellers from the YH at Foro Olimpico |
Inside the Basilica of St Peter, Vatican City, Rome |
Sistine Chapel ceiling, Vatican City, Rome |
Ceiling decoration in the Vatican Museum, Rome |
Frescoes in a Roman villa at Pompeii, Italy, 1974 |
Ruins of Pompeii, Naples, Italy |
Porta Nuova (1535 AD) in Palermo, Sicily |
Valley of the Temples, Agrigento, Sicily |
Storm clouds gather over an ancient Greek temple, Selinunte, Sicily |
Ancient Greek temple of Segesta, Sicily |
Mt Etna rises up beyond the ancient Greek theatre at Taormina, Sicity |
Salina in the Aeolian Islands off Sicily, seen from M/N Lipari, 1974 |
Early morning light over Stromboli, Aeolian Islands, Sicily, in 1974 |
Tower of the Duomo or cathedral, Florence, Italy |
Traditional doorway and cat, Venice, Italy |
The Grand Canal of Venice in 1974 |
Excursion to historic Kyburg with my hosts in Zurich |
Kyburg Castle in Zurich Canton, Switzerland |
The Jungfrau, Switzerland |
Welcome to the Principality of Liechtenstein! |
Arlberg Pass in the Austrian Tyrol, 1974 |
Pont du Gard, built by the Romans in Languedoc, southern France |
Medieval city walls of Carcassonne, France |
Thirteenth-century fortified hilltop town of Cordes-sur-Ciel in southwestern France, 1974. |
Motorists await a snow plough in the Andorran Pyrenees, 1974 |
Historic Bou Inania Madrassah at Fez, Morocco |
Djemaa El Fna (Square of the Dead) by night, Marrakech |
Food stall at night, Djemaa El Fna, Marrakech |
Djemaa El Fna, Square of the Dead in Marrakech, Morocco, 1974 |
Livestock market at Tinerhir or Tinghir, southern Morocco |
Taourirt Kasbah in Ouarzazate, southern Morocco |
Room inside the Taourirt Kasbah of Ouarzazate, southern Morocco |
Berber village near Tinerhir or Tinghir, southern Morocco |
Camel market in Rissani, southern Morocco |
Old quarter of Cordoba, Andalucia, Spain, 1974 |
Mezquita or Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba, Andalucia, Spain |
The fishermen's catch, Sagres, Portugal |
"Guns and Roses" in Lisbon, Portugal, days after the March '74 Velvet Revolution |
The Palace of Sintra, now a museum, is the best-preserved medieval royal residence in Portugal |
The Palace of Sintra, now a museum in this historic town outside Lisbon, Portugal |
Provincial town of Guarda, Portugal |
Hospitable French students lunching at their rented farmhouse in Brittany |
Breton cottage nestled between granite tors, Plougrescant, France |
Medieval Breton town of Dinan on the River Rance in France |
Chateau de Chenonceaux spanning the River Cher, central France |
Chateau de Chambord, Loire Valley, France |
Stonehenge, a prehistoric stone circle in Wiltshire, England, 1974 |
Stonehenge, a prehistoric stone circle in Wiltshire, England |
North Devon coast at Lynton, England |
Motoring around Ireland's Dingle Peninsula with two American girls |
My two companions touring Ireland's Dingle Peninsula |
Cottages near Killary Harbour, Connemara, Ireland |
Lough Currane, Ring of Kerry, Ireland |
Pictish broch or fortified tower, Loch Hope, northern Scotland |
Kyle of Kylesku, Sutherland, Scotland |
Hadrian's Wall, northern England |
Roman soldiers' washroom at Housesteads on Hadrians Wall, England |
Banners displayed in historic Bruges for the reenactment of a medieval tournament, Belgium, 1974 |
Looking down from the Belfort (belltower), Bruges |
'Sleep In' hostel accommodation in Amsterdam |
Nyhavn is a 17th-century waterfront, canal and entertainment district in Copenhagen |
Achtung! Berlin, 1974 |
Berliner Dom and Fernsehturm (TV Tower), East Berlin, 1974 |
Along the Berlin Wall, 1974 |
Rothenburg ob der Tauber, a well preserved medieval town in Bavaria, Germany |
Hostellers on the city walls of Rothenburg ob Tauber, Germany |
The Tyn Church in Prague |
Visiting Czech penfriend Blanka and her family, outside Plzen (Pilsen) |
Croatian coast south of Rijeka, Yugoslavia |
Dubrovnik on the Croatian coast, before the Balkans conflict |
A mosque in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Yugoslavia |
Sarajevo before the Balkans conflict |
Courtyard of a Sarajevo Mosque |
White Mountains, western Crete, 1974 |
Setting out on the Samaria Gorge hike in Crete, Greece |
Aghia Roumeli, a hamlet in the Samaria Gorge, Crete |
Matala Beach, Crete, Greece, 1974 |
Volcanic crater at Santorini, Greece, in 1974 |
The Lion Gate at ancient Mykines, Argolis, Greece. |
Temple of Apollo, Delphi, Greece |
And now I've reached Istanbul, gateway to Asia and the road east. September 1974 |