I’m quite enjoying the Guardian’s photo assignments if only because it makes me look through some of the older photos.

This month the theme is transport and my library seems to have an extraordinary collection of boats, and not that much else at first glance.

Obviously if you head off to a floating village in the middle of Cambodia you’re going to find boats.

But then there’s the boat trip up the Mekong along the Laos Thai border to consider as well – equally picturesque and just as many pictures of boats

And of course there was the Bangkok boat trip

A boat ride on the Varanasi

And boat building in Yemen almost 30 years ago.

There are first world boats in San Francisco

And Canada

Or slightly less picturesque London

Or Wales

 

And the weirdest lock in creation in the Falkirk Wheel

There are a couple of tourist snaps of horse drawn carriages, not that we ever pay the premium for a ride, but they’re certainly pretty enough to warrant a snap in Seville.

And Amsterdam

Or Canada

If we’re sticking with animals, there’s definitely an elephant to be found somewhere in Thailand.

Or India

And a donkey or two in Egypt reinforcing the stereotypes.

What about road travel, not so picturesque but definitely a memory worth a photo or two in India.

And then of course there are the science museum’s relics. Do they count?

And then there is public transport in the form of tube trains

And big red buses.

Surely transport by foot has to be something. What about stairs and escalators?

And many many bridges going from here to there.

There is a surprising lack of planes for a family that has travelled so much in them.

And a not very surprising lack of pictures of us walking anywhere at all.