Victor the buggy in Muscat

Tucked away under the shade of my breakfast source, Lulu in Darsait, I saw this well travelled car. Well travelled not just from Salalah, where I photoed it last week, to Muscat – but after 6 years on the road it has the most kilometres of any non production car.

Elayne in Victor the Travel Bug in Salalah

Victor the buggy is

Arab Horses in Oman

One of my favourite images are of Oman’s Arab Horses decked out in traditional silver.  Marco Polo wrote about them in his book ‘The Travels’ -  “and the merchants take a great number of Arab horses to that market” (of India from Al Balid).

Arab Horses from the book ‘Walking Through History’

Khor Rori Oman

Flying down to Salalah after visiting northern Oman we have been visiting some of the places in my new book “Walking Through History”.

Khor Rori the UNESCO Site in southern Oman

Here sitting overlooking the water at

Walking Through History – sample of printed book arrives

I dropped into Al Roya’s office and saw the ‘dummy’ of the book.

Front Cover Book Walking Through History

All the pages have been printed and the printers did a hand made hard cover so that it could be approved.  The inside pages look really nice, so Im looking forward to getting a finished version.

A Mega Dune of the southern Rub Al Khali from the book Walking Through History

I think there will be an introductory offer for it – check back for this.

Printing my new book on Oman

It was kind of the printing press where my new book is being worked on to let me see the first page go into the machine as a white page, and a few moments later appear at the other end of the machine in full colour.

The first page of the book being printed

Using a Heidelberg press the inks are printed on – and then when all are finished (some 48 hours later) it will go onto the next process of coating the pages to ensure that the inks are fixed in place.

Checking the flow of paper of the book

Then the hard cover and binding will be done and hopefully all will be ready for its launch in mid February.