Encounter in Aleppo -- The 8.55 to Baghdad -- The longest train in Europe -- Intermezzo Triestino -- Republic of vegetable patches -- City of inner demons -- Love and death among the Serbs -- Tsar Boris and the Black Sea -- Travel, the cure for all ignorance -- Hubble-bubble on the Toros Ekspresi -- Return to the Baron -- Three days in Damascus -- The road to Baghdad -- Saddam City -- Nineveh, Jonah and Lucifer -- Incident at Ur -- The garden of Eden.