Down Shoestring Road.

I first visited many of the tomb precincts mentioned in Great Burial Places with John Allen, a friend whom I went through high school with. Our first adventure, after we had just finished college in 1964, was to hitch-hike overland from Mumbai to London. We were six months on the road. After a working holiday in London we hitched back overland to Singapore and flew home to Australia from there. John has now resurrected his old travel diaries and photo collection and written two illustrated blogs called Shoestring Road (www.ozac.travellerspoint.com/) and Back Down Shoestring Road (www.ozac3.travellerspoint.com/). Check them out.

Pokhara airport, Nepal 1966.

The building on the left is the terminal.

Main street Kabul. 1964.

Main street Rangoon, Myanmar. 1966.

Crossing the desert. Afghanistan 1964.

Meal break on the trail. Western Nepal 1966.

Another great burial precinct in London.

Westminster Abbey is not the only great burial place in London. Taphophiles should check out Highgate Cemetery, a huge forested precinct in north London that is the last resting place of many illustrious people, notably Michael Faraday, George Eliot, Malcolm McLaren, Diane Cilento and that famous socio-economic ideologue Karl Marx.