ENCOUNTER OVERLAND ASIA 1978 - Asia

Ivan Hurst Trans Asia 1978 03 August 2017 Hits: 1332

London to Kathmandu - Asia starting with Turkey

Autumn 1978

Which way did we go? To be honest the breakdown managed to wipe out most of the memories of Turkey before it. Perhaps the photos will jog my memory.

The map below was posted on Facebook by one of the EMs

Untill I find the photos I took on the expedition, Oh, did I take a camara? If I find photos to jog my memory.

I do recall our visit to Pamukkale. Beautiful terraces of warm blue water. We camped there for the night. I remember a pleasant time after dinner sat with bare feet in one of the many little streams, just talking and watching the stars, with one of the Canadian EMs. She had a pet Moose at home, if memory serves.

The photo of Pamukkale was taken by Antoine Taveneaux on a Pentax K-5 on 7 July 2011, shown here with thanks.

Change of host Sept 2023

In the begining of August 2023 I transfered my ivanhurst.me.uk sites, including this one from 123-reg to IONOS. It was meant to be a simple task. However, that was to to be the case. The reason for the move was primarily the hugh increase in price that 123-reg was applying regarding email boxes. Previously, the upto 500 of the boxes were included in the various hosting packages I had. Now they were going to charge for each mailbox based on size, and as far as I could make out, this was going to cost me nearly £2,000. This was not acceptable, and I did not get satisfactory answers from support. So I turned off all the auto renews and stated to move sites and domains accross to IONOS.

Travel data problems

This is where it starts to get a little technical.

The site is built on a content management system, CMS, using Joomla. Joomla is moving forward and version 3.10.?? is being discontinued. Future developments are for version 4.??

Similarly, PHP 7 is being replaced with PHP 8.

Part of the migration is relatively simple, I have already changed to a new template which works on the new platforms.

However, some of the helper applications, which work within Joomla are not yet ready.

Fabrik is one of those applications, if fact a significant 'Joomla Custom Website Application Builder'.

Site refresh Easter 2021

I decided to give the site a bit of a refresh over Easter 2021 and install a new template and some additional functions. One of the things I didn't like about the old site was the delay in text appearing which probably meant some people left before the content appeared. This has been corrected now.