Every photo from our second overland journey was and will – we hope – be taken with our Canon Powershot G10. We think it's among the best travel cameras you can carry.
Iain and Claire are in:
Chiang Mai, Thailand
From the Chinese Fish Collection, “a large set of 19th century watercolour sketches depicting species from the waterways and seas of China and Japan.”
Four thousand years of human history on a single chart
Old World Wandering: A Travelogue by Iain Manley & Claire van den Heever is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
i dont want to be a smart arse, but according to Wikipedia that is not King Richard the Lionheart.
“Behind the horse kneel two crusaders, Guy of Lusignan and Raynald of Châtillon.”
Feel free to prove me wrong
You’re right Topher. Thanks for pointing out my mistake.
When we first came across the statue, somebody told us one of the crusaders was Richard the Lionheart, and that his position at the horse’s rump symbolised Saladin’s victory. In fact, Saladin never conclusively defeated Richard’s army. The two men were locked in a stalemate, and Richard chose to leave the Holy Land when he realised he could never take and hold Jerusalem, which was lost by the crusaders four years before Richard arrived.
The two men apparently held each other in high regard – so much so, that Richard suggested the marriage of his sister to Saladin’s brother. The couple would rule over Palestine, and be given Jerusalem as a wedding present. Richard thought the union would lead to peace between Muslims and Christians, in 1192!