My first, and so far only ride on an elephant – seen here in the ancient Thai capital of Ayutthya (you can see some of the ruins in the background). It’s not much of a picture, but I can take solace in the fact that I clearly didn’t take it (that’s me on the left in the picture). It must have been taken with my camera though, as I have the negative. For all it’s failings the picture is worth having to document an event that may never (and probably won’t) take place again.