Michni Fort - top of the Khyber Pass - overlooking the Afghanistan-Pakistan border
Michni Fort is the final stop for the steam train safari and the last place visitors are permitted to go prior to the Afghan border at Torkham. While we were there the fog rolled in and I think it gives a mystical quality to the statue. We were given lunch and a tour of a museum and a marching display and dancing with swords by the soldiers. Probably more of that soon.
I am having a wonderful time revisiting the places I have been by looking through my photos and deciding what I want to share. My new scanner arrived yesterday, so I will start scanning my film soon. I have bid on a APS scanner on eBay so fingers crossed I will be lucky and be able to scan my aps films too. So soon I will rediscover more photos from my time in Belgrade and travels in Eastern Europe.
I also got my IR converted dSLR yesterday - it is a Canon Eos 20D, the same model as my beloved camera that was stolen.
I have made a few online purchases in the last days of 2011 and bit by bit things are arriving here. Australia Post contracts out the parcel delivery service and Thursday, Friday and Today I have tracked parcels online and waited for the delivery as the status advised they'd be delivered that day. Each time the parcel delivery contractor has just shoved a "sorry we missed you" card in my mail box and I have to wait until the next business day to collect it from the pst office. I am fuming, in my opinion the are paid to deliver it to me, not shove a card in my letterbox. There are no gates, dogs etc or anything preventing them from coming to the house. In my opinion them scanning the barcode and entering the code for nobody in attendance at the residence when they haven't checked is fraud. So cranky that I have to wait until Monday to get the parcel I should have received yesterday.
Love this pic, and loving your stories to go with them.
The Australia Post drama i know too well, we are having the same problem here, i have heard so many people in the post office complaining that they were home all day and they only got a card in the letter box, but the post office plead ignorance because it's contractors doing the jobs!! My daughter ordered me a printer for christmas and to this day it is lost in transition somewhere in Sydney!! She was luckily given a new one from the store.....sorry, i'm rambling but i understand why you are angry!
Gosh what an atmospheric shot!
(My friends were complaining that a courier had called by, taken a photo of the house to prove he had been, and left a card saying 'call to collect this' with the collection depot being 30 miles away!!)
British got a good slaughtering somewhere around here in the 19th century. not that we didn't deserve it, waltzing round the place selecting the countries we wanted to keep for ourselves. Top picture.
@chewyteeth - there is a tree at the fort chained to the ground and a sign stating "a unique example of British Rule" and a sign on the tree saying "arrested tree". According to the story, some British officers were drunk and walked into the tree, being officers they blamed the tree for striking them and ordered it be arrested for striking an officer. It remains arrested to this day.
@trude@mebswartz@filsie65 I have complained to the complaints area on each of the three occasions, I found a website where thousands of people shared similar experiences, funnily it doesn't make me feel better to know I am not alone, I am frustrated that the problem is broad and has not been fixed
Coolio Foggio. My Aussie Post delivery contractor guy, waits at the gate, toots his horn a few times and waits to have a chat. He is a very friendly chap and will chat for quite some time. He's my friend.
@bobfoto ask him if he wants to move to Canberra or at least train the bloke down here, would love to have a friendly chatty type. By the look of the queues at the PO every afternoon it is not just my house and parcels that get this treatment
The Australia Post drama i know too well, we are having the same problem here, i have heard so many people in the post office complaining that they were home all day and they only got a card in the letter box, but the post office plead ignorance because it's contractors doing the jobs!! My daughter ordered me a printer for christmas and to this day it is lost in transition somewhere in Sydney!! She was luckily given a new one from the store.....sorry, i'm rambling but i understand why you are angry!
@shezza she hasn't just got one, Sheridan...ask her about the 300D =]
(My friends were complaining that a courier had called by, taken a photo of the house to prove he had been, and left a card saying 'call to collect this' with the collection depot being 30 miles away!!)
I love the shot, and, yes, I think the fog gives the statue a mystical quality, too. I even wondered if it was real before I read your narrative.