Traveller's Tales

[Barry]

“We travel not for trafficking alone;
By hotter winds our hearts are fanned:
For lust of knowing what should not be known
We take the Golden Road to .....”

(You fill in the gap)

Apologies to James Elroy Flecker, whose poem I've plagarised.

I was a bit terse and stuffy about some recent posts in the thread "Off on my travels" in Abstract Gallery, which as it name suggests is intended for topics predominently containing images.

However, the posts to which I refer contain many interesting anecdotes and warrant a thread of their own: hence 'Traveller's Tales'. I had to think carefully with the title; the posters to which I refer worked in a professional capacity in various countries, whereas I regard myself as a mere 'tourist'. The title 'Traveller' is a sort of compromise between the two.

So this new thread is for you - and if you can include some appropriate images, so much the better.