I recently visited Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia on a short business trip.  Living in Cyprus with no railways at all, I just had to make the time to explore Kuala Lumpur’s Light Rail Transit systems.  Bear in mind as a dedicated gricer, the previous time I’d pointed a camera at a railway subject was in October 2010. Withdrawal symptoms?  You bet!

During my visit, I managed to check out three of the systems:  the Monorail, the Ampang Line and Electric Train Service.

The coastal plain around Mandria in Cyprus is intensively farmed as a series of small holdings.  That leads to the village being almost a museum of interesting old tractors – many of which are still in daily use.  Yesterday I found three interesting examples – a Serbian IMT 5539, a USA Massey Ferguson 165 and a Czechoslovakian Zetor 4011.

Back in 1986 a business trip to Milan unusually featured a few hours of free time here and there - which was my first (and so far only) opportunity for a quick bit of gricing Italian style.  The stuff I saw was a great mix of vintage and modern - scanning the original sides certainly makes me want to go back for a deeper investigation.