Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wendy - thank you. Just like Spencer Cheng noted, Pindy is very different from Islamabad. Since Islamabad is a "new" and planned city it has wide roads, and there is some sense of order. Older areas like Pindy or Rawalpindi are much older, with very narrow streets - there have been may occasions I have been driven down these narrow streets at speeds much higher than I feel is safe, given the people walking in the road, kids darting all over the place, dogs, donkey cart, horse carts, and narrow sidewalks. I still wonder if we have hit people from time to time. Of course, in general, there are no such things as traffic lanes. Whatever you can do to squeeze in, honk your horn and keep looking for the opening. I know people from Islamabad, who will not drive in Pindy, on the other hand I have a friend from Pindy, who drives with one hand, the other gesticulating wildly to convey the meaning of his words, and apparently paying little attention to the traffic, but he, like most others get by with a few scratches to their cars, I have not seen any serious accidents, although one reads about them in the newspaper. Cheers Hugh On 5-Nov-09, at 6:51 AM, Wendy Thurman wrote: > Good to see you are getting out and making pictures. Are the > Pakistanis as > maniacal behind the wheel as the Afghans are? I suspect so, given > that many > of the people here once lived there. The last image, The Cook's > Domain, > appeals- I do like the mood in that one.