the late shift

Things are slow in the world of fun lately but had a cool trip up to London however, I'm sitting in Singapore with the arvo thundery's crackling away whilst i try to stay awake! The trip up to London was a little different to usual with us taking a more southern route to normal, we headed up over Afghanistan as usual but then headed just to the south of the Caucasus' (Azerbaijan, Georgia) and over the black sea. Usually not too interesting but with summer on it's way up there the sun was up early and gave us an awesome sunrise treat as we cruised past the very scenic range which includes Mt Elbrus - highest peak in Europe at 18,500'/5642m. I only had my iphone for pics, I really have to make a habit of taking the dSLR away with me! 

The 'terrain map' shows the Caucasus Range to the right of the green line which is our planned track, the purple stars & letters are airports. The airports starting with "OI__" are in Iran, "UB__" are in Azerbaijan, "UG__" is Georgia, "UR__" is Russian and "LT__" is Turkey. Where it says "TERR" with numbers below, this is the height, in thousands of feet, of the displayed terrain map.

It's hard to spot it but Elbrus is on the display, just below the top, below the '30' line

Still in Azerbaijan 

Pure, morning.

....and we have Elbrus! It's amazing how high it stands out from it's surrounding peaks, it's a volcanic cone amongst regular alpine style mountains.

Up in London we headed out to Camden to check out the markets and general scene, pretty cool place... 

A fun little Photo stitch of the view from the 17th floor in Singapore, the red roof in the foreground is the pre-eminent Raffles Hotel with the approaching storm in the background.