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There are 195 countries in the world today. This total comprises 193 countries that are member states of the United Nations and 2 countries that are non-member observer states: the Holy See (Vatican) and the State of Palestine.  These are the ones I have ticked off.  Click on a country for a traveller’s tale from there…

  1. Andorra
  2. Austria
  3. Belgium
  4. Cambodia
  5. China (Hong Kong)
  6. Croatia
  7. Czech Republic
  8. Denmark
  9. Egypt
  10. England
  11. France
  12. Gambia
  13. Germany
  14. Hungary
  15. Iceland
  16. India
  17. Indonesia
  18. Italy
  19. Jordan
  20. Libya
  21. Liechtenstein
  22. Luxembourg
  23. Malaysia
  24. Morocco
  25. Nepal
  26. Netherlands
  27. Norway
  28. Romania
  29. Scotland
  30. Singapore
  31. Slovakia
  32. Slovenia
  33. South Africa
  34. Spain
  35. Sri Lanka
  36. Sweden
  37. Switzerland
  38. Syria
  39. Thailand
  40. Trinidad
  41. Tunisia
  42. Turkey
  43. United States
  44. Uzbekistan
  45. Vatican City
  46. Zambia
  47. Zimbabwe

Stories of teaching and travelling. Mark Twain -Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. Henry Miller – One's destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things.

  • 99 photos from Libya 2009
  • A-Z of Peaches travels
  • A Beatle, a bum and a brewery – tales from Oxfordshire
  • A HIGHLAND THING – PART 1 (FORT WILLIAM)
  • A HIGHLAND THING – PART 2 (THE ISLE OF SKYE)
  • A Highland Thing Part 3 – Some random thoughts from the third time up there (from this lockdown year 2021)
  • Bratislava is for life, not just for Christmas Markets
  • Cambodian Christmas
  • Colle di Tora – An Italian Wedding
  • Croatia
  • CZECH REPUBLIC: Into hyperspace in prague
  • Desert Christmas – The Festival of the Desert, Tunisia
  • Egypt
  • Essaouira, Morocco
  • France – My Secret Mistress
  • Gambia
  • Germany – A Random act of kindness
  • Getting to Know Liechtenstein
  • Golden Moments from teaching abroad : Part 1 of the short blogs series. Slovakia.
  • Golden Moments from teaching abroad : Part 2 of the short blogs series. Africa.
  • Golden Moments from teaching abroad : Part 3 of the short blogs series. Those Weekends Away.
  • Golden Moments From Teaching Abroad Part 4 of the short blogs series: The British Embassy
  • GOLDEN MOMENTS FROM TEACHING ABROAD: PART 5 OF THE SHORT BLOGS SERIES. RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME
  • Groundhog Day on the Île de Ré
  • He Who Could Not Be Named – Gaddafi’s Libya
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Île de Ré Idioms (answers)
  • India
  • Jordan
  • Jordan redux
  • Knowing how to make the most of your time in Bratislava
  • Let us Pray: Syria (a photo gallery from Damascus)…
  • Lockdown Diaries Redux: Infamy! Infamy! They’ve All Got It Infamy!
  • Lockdown Diary 1
  • Lockdown Diary 2
  • Lockdown diary 3
  • lockdown diary 4
  • Lockdown Diary 5
  • lockdown diary 6 – sorry i can no longer honour my intention to be non-partisan now.
  • Lockdown Diary 7
  • Lockdown Diary 8
  • Lockdown diary 9 – as long as i am not free to travel, i consider it to be still in lockdown: so here’s another one.
  • Lockdown Diary 10
  • luxembourg
  • Malaysia – In the footsteps of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
  • NEPAL: 3 WHEELS ON MY WAGON…
  • Norway Road Trip (Part 1) – As Old as Your Worries and as Young as Your Hopes
  • Norway Road Trip (Part 2) – Fjords and Swimming in the Snow
  • Now back home to Devon – Tales of Charity, Temperance, Drunkenness and Arson.
  • On Satnavs – Slovakia-Austria-Liechenstein-Germany-Luxembourg-Belgium-France-UK Trip
  • Peaches Gallery
  • Poor Parker
  • Question: Did Somebody Just Murder Peaches? 12-09-17
  • Road-tripping through Europe
  • Scotland
  • singapore – oddly … Jerusalema
  • Slovakia
  • South africa
  • Sri Lanka
  • Stopover Special!
  • Thailand – Trains and Boats and Planes
  • The Netherlands: Spreek Nederlands (speak Dutch)!
  • The Sounds of Silence – from our home in Stupava, Slovakia
  • The times they are a Changin’ – Cloud Farm, Devon
  • Totnes
  • Trinidad and tobago – nah leaving.
  • Turkey (Part 1) – Antalya
  • Turkey (Part 2) – Orhan’s Cushty Troite
  • Turkey (Part 3) – Göbekli Tepe: Rewriting History
  • Turkey (Part 4) – The Long Road Home
  • Up through the Vrisic Pass – Slovenia
  • Uzbekistan 1 – The Silk Road: Tashkent
  • Uzbekistan 2 – The Silk Road: Samarkand
  • Uzbekistan 3 – The Silk Road: Bukhara
  • Vampires and the Preot’s wife – Romania
  • We Just Don’t Talk Like This Anymore
  • We Just Don’t Talk Like This Anymore Part 2
  • With Refugees on the Hungary-Austria Border
  • Xixarella or Bust – A Road Trip to Andorra
  • You Can Get Anything You Want at Alice’s Restaurant
  • Zambia: Marketing skills
  • Zimbabwe – Flying Mhunga Air

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