An international survey of manhole covers. Exterior of the Museum in Comacchio.

An assortment of items of personal interest. Place index to all Maxted Travel blogs. This is one of a series of indexes to our travels, last updated 17 February 2017. Some of the historical personages we have encountered on our travels. A miscellany of oddities and other interesting discoveries. A key to proper names other than places and people. Index of places within country and region.

8th to 28th February 2007. Map of Trinidad showing places visited. Click on map to see full size. Jill, Ian and Modestine. Jill, Ian and Modestine.

The Yaxchilan lintels from Temple 23. The scenes carved in relief on the sets of lintels of this temple and Temple 24 depict the rituals performed by Maya rulers to invoke powerful immortal spirits to ensure success in battle and secure captives for sacrifice. These ritual deeds legitimised their authority and ancestral right to rule. Yaxchilan Lintel 16, c.

August 2005 to September 2006. Setting the scene, an Introduction. In the summer of 2005 we both retired at the age of sixty. In August we closed the door on our house and set off on a journey that was to last thirteen months and take us to eighteen different countries throughout Europe. And so we set off across the English Channel to follow our star on perhaps the most exciting, stimulating and enjoyable experience of our lives. Jill, Ian and Modestine.

1 April to 30 July 2007. Round Europe with Modestine 2007. Key and map to Maxted Travels with Modestine 2,. Covering 1 April to 30 July 2007. Click the map to see full size with links to the text.

Maxted travels with Modestine 5. This is a full list of the postings in our most recent series of travel blogs. 183 Cyprus part 2 Kyrenia and Bellapais. 182 Cyprus part 1 Salamis and Famagusta. 178 The Bibliothèque Alexis de Tocqueville. 173 Western seaboard of France. 159 Back in the Midi.

1 September to 15 October 2007. Clickable map showing the route of our travels. Because of the scale not all places are linked to. Where places occur more than once, the link is to the first posting on which it is mentioned. 1 1 September 2007 Back to France.

Maxted Travels, Wallowing in the Maya. An archaeological journey through Guatemala, Honduras and southern Mexico. Wallowing in the Maya postings. Introduction, Antigua and Copan. Tikal, Yaxha and Flores.

Northern Spain and the Picos de Europa. The sea and the sky were uniformly grey with a mist shrouding passing tankers and hiding the French coast. The crossing was wonderfully smooth and the slight roll lulled us to sleep in our cabin that night. Monday 3rd April 1995, Arena de Cabrales. In the town we made our way to the .