Signs to make you smile …

Sign of people hating cat in Kotor, Montenegro

One of the things I like to do when travelling is to smile and one of the things that makes me smile is seeing puns and good word play.

Gambling in Europe and what to avoid.

Casino in Slavonski Brod, Croatia.

What has interested me is seeing the different attitudes to gambling in the countries I have been through – from the obsession with horse racing in Ireland, carriage racing in France, scratch-cards in Portugal and slots in Spain and Germany.

Being driven crazy in the Balkans

Ohrid - Macedonia. Roadside chapel.

“I thought the customs officer was going to search the car and hoped that my slippery elm bark, the natural remedy which I have been told looks like raw heroin, wouldn’t cause me to be slammed into an Albanian gaol.”