“When I first began to ask around what people knew about horse racing in Madrid, many people responded to the tune of: ‘I didn’t know there was one in Madrid’, ‘I think it’s closed’ or ‘Yeah, but it’s not very popular’. The latter is probably true.” Simon Pynches describes a pleasant, if not so well known, Sunday morning out at Madrid’s Zarzuela racecourse.
Teams lined up on the Papeete waterfront for an outrigger race around Moorea Island, Tahiti.
A traditional Thai boat race team practise for an upcoming Boat Race Festival.
The Zanzibar archipelago comes to us from a history of powerful trading links with Arabia and Persia. Zanzibar Island provided the gateway between East Africa and…
A scuba diver off the coast of Thailand smooches at the camera!
Pic of the Week – 20 March 2006 by Kay McMahon © 1990 All images are digitally watermarked – please don’t infringe copyright! Kay adds: “Buzkashi…