Pix Squelch Took On His Travels Around the World

Bruck an der Leitha, Austria, 11:54 PM, October 2000: Looking out the door of the train. Svejk and Vodicka got into a big fight in this town once.

Mostar, Bosnia, August 1999: The 600 year old bridge that crossed the Neretva river here in Mostar was destroyed during the civil war here during the Croatian assault on the Muslim side of Mostar. Now they are planning to rebuild it. In this picture you can see the two ends of the old bridge, the hole in between where the Old Bridge should be, and the temporary bridge in front of it that was erected by Hungarian Army combat engineers.

Sarajevo, Bosnia, 20 September 2000: The Olympic Torch tower at the Zetra Centre; the picture was taken from a moving bus, so I was lucky that I missed the lamppost!

Mostar, Bosnia, August 1999: The ruins of the former Yugoslav People's Army barracks.

Novi Grad, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia, August 1999: This picture was taken standing in the no-man's-land between Bosnia and Croatia, on the broken bridge over the Una river, looking at the town of Novi Grad, Republika Srpska. Bosnia is divided into two provinces: the Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine, which is the Muslim-Croat half of the country, and the Republika Srpska, which is the Serbian half of the country.

Köln, Germany, October 2000: The sign says "Don't Get Off Here"...and my mind is perpetually in the gutter, so I had to take this picture. =)

Paris, France, March 1, 1995: A petrol station in a residential area of Paris.

Zagreb, Croatia, 16 September 2000: This is a sign on an electrical box. The sign means "Touch it and die".

Dvor na Uni, Croatia, August 1999: A house with stuff written on it.

Laslovo (Szentlászló), Croatia, August 1999: End of the village limits.

Sunja, Croatia, June, 1999: The railway station building, as destroyed in the war. War sucks: it destroys the railways. =(

Zagreb, Croatia, June 1999: Statue of King Tomislav, Croatia's first king.

Zagreb, Croatia, June 1999: Artistry on Steel Rails - a trippy picture of the railway station in Zagreb; note how the lights on the right side are streaking, and the green, streaking lights from the signal (not visible in the picture) reflect of the sides of the train on the left. Pure artistic genius! (Actually, this picture was a fluke. I had just loaded film into my camera and was shooting the first two or three squares away, as I always do, to bring the counter to 0. And this happened. Choice.)

Zagreb, Croatia, 16 September 2000: Nikola Tesla street.

Bag, Hungary, 29 May 1999: The railway station. Picture taken from the train to Hatvan from Budapest.

Újpest (Újpest nem Pest hanem Város!), Hungary, 1999: View from my Grandmother's flat.

Székesfehérvar, Hungary, August 1999: Forward, the 69th! (the 69th infantry regiment was Székesfehérvár's regiment in the Great War).

Újpest, Hungary, September 1999: Lovely sight - seven Trabants in a row!

Eger, Hungary, July 1999: Long live Nünü! (signed) Biga. I have no clue who either of these persons (?) might be.

Eger, Hungary, July 1999: Old meets New - the railway line runs through the ruins of the 15th century castle.

Keflavík, Iceland, October 2000: Advertisement in the airport.

Sturovo (Párkány), Slovakia, June 1999: The ruins of the bridge that was bombed in the second world war. They started rebuilding it in early 2001.

Kosice (Kassa), Slovakia, June 1999: Memorial to the Soviet soldiers who died while liberating Kosice from the Nazis. People enjoy looking at such uplifting and heartwarming monuments, because it reminds them that a whole bunch of Soviet soldiers died.

Subotica (Szabadka), Yugoslavia, 22 September 2000: The National Theatre.

Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 20 September 2000: A very old gun inside the Kalemegdan, the castle, in Belgrade.

Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 20 September 2000: Belgrade the Beautiful. The view from the Kalemegdan over the confluence of the Danube and the Sava rivers. Belgrade is on my list of top-five favourite cities in Europe. The other four: Budapest, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Salzburg.

Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 20 September 2000: Plaque at the Kalemegdan, inscribed in Serbian (left side) and Hungarian (right side), with the following text: On 22 July 1456 the defenders of Belgrade, led by János Hunyadi [Janko Hunjadi in Serbian], achieved a decisive victory over the Turks on this spot. Signs like this are useful too, especially for Hungarians and Serbs, because it reassures them, that at least once upon a time, their armies won wars...

Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 20 September 2000: The Yugoslav flag flies happily over the Kalemegdan, because it knows that within a week, Milosevic will be gone and the reformers will win the election.

Somewhere in Nevada, USA, December 1998: A cannon.