Next trip to Andalusia, Iran, followed by Armenia - both in May. Then Germany and, if all goes well, Siberia, Lake Baikal, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan - in August.
Profile pic: March 2008. On the Camino to Santiago, as a pilgrim, on foot. I am in Getaria (Euskadi), with Juan Sebastian Elcano, the first man on earth to circumnavigate the world (Magellan died in Mactan Island in the hands of a local chief).