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I was chatting with a friend, and said I was thinking about a final collection of street photography to sum up the trip. She said 'But all you do is hang around street corners'. Which is... true.

So here, at least, are some vaguely spontaneous non waiting for the right moment stuff photos, roughly one from each leg of the trip, with added quotes, just to make you think I'm a serious literary type too.

Alex

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Fulham, London;

Thursday, 1st October 2009, 06:21

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by. Robert Frost

Chatting in the sunshine

Helsinki, Finland;

Saturday, 3rd October 2009, 14:05

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. Goethe

Wedding Party on Neva quayside

St Petersburg, Russia;

Monday, 5th October 2009, 14:16

People are not looking for the meaning of life, but for the experience of being alive.

Joseph Campbell

Vegetable Patch

Novgorod, Russia;

Friday, 9th October 2009, 14:47

I have all that money can buy. I want more people, but no more things. E M Forster

Bride learning very quickly

Moscow, Russia;

Saturday, 10th October 2009, 13:42

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

John Steinbeck

Getting to know each other

Kyiv, Ukraine;

Tuesday, 13th October 2009, 16:43

You had me at hello.

Jerry Maguire (1996 film, dir Cameron Crowe)

Ferris Wheel

Pripyiat, nearest town to Chernobyl, Ukraine; Thursday, 15th October 2009, 13:57

But the control rods had a design flaw: their tips were made of graphite. The graphite tips attached to a hollow segment one meter (3.28 feet long), which attached in turn to a five-meter absorbent segment. When the 205 control rods began driving into the surging Number 4 reactor, the graphite tip went in first. Rather than reduce the reaction, the graphite tips increased it. The control rods displaced water from the rod channels as well, increasing reactivity further. The reactor exploded.

UN report into the Chernobyl disaster

Sometimes the view isnt important

Lviv, Ukraine;

Saturday, 17th October 2009, 11:09

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

Robert Doisneau

Tourists feeling the pace

Budapest, Hungary;

Tuesday. 20th October 2009, 12:59

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse. Juan Manuel Fangio

Train Corridor

South of Bucharest, Roumania;

Friday, 23rd October 2009, 09:21

Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. Aldous Huxley

Boy Chasing Pigeons

Istanbul, Turkey;

Sunday, 25th October 2009, 12:01

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. Nehru

Kiwi

Lone Pine Ridge Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey;

Tuesday, 27th October 2009, 17:52

What are your legs?

Springs. Steel springs.

What are they going to do?

Hurl me down the track.

How fast can you run?

As fast as a leopard.

How fast are you going to run?

As fast as a leopard!!

Then let's see you do it!

Gallipoli (1981 film, dir Peter Weir)

130km to Antalya

near Korkuteli, Turkey;

Sunday, 1st November 2009, 10:34

I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as the first person on earth and humbly and sincerely putting on paper what I see and experience and lose; what my passing thoughts were and sorrows and desires.

Neal Cassady