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Country 10: Switzerland
As I close in on 100 countries… I’m retracing my route… Fresh from a mid-summer glacier ski on the Jungfrau mountain, the fifteen-year-old me surveys the world… glimpsing a future…
Country 9: Luxembourg
As I close in on 100 countries… I’m retracing my route… A slither of land wedged between the tourist magnets that are France, Germany and Belgium…
Skopje: where crime sometimes pays
The last time I was in Skopje, I had come to persuade the Macedonian interior minister to sign up to a trans-Balkan action plan for tackling organised crime to be…
Kosovo: a friend indeed
I cannot claim it to be universal law, but I often find the friendliness and hospitality of a country’s inhabitants to be inversely proportionate to their recent troubles. So it…
Kotor
Arriving into Kotor by night, dizzy from sharp turns around the shores of the narrow, fjord-like bay that winds inland from the Adriatic, I was puzzled to see a yellow…
Country 8: Holland
As I close in on 100 countries… I’m retracing my route… A naturally flat and featureless landscape need not mean boring. Not when human ingenuity has garnished it with tulips…
Country 7: Belgium
As I close in on 100 countries visited in a lifetime of roaming… I’m retracing my route… What could I say about Belgium back then?… I left pretty much as…
Country 6: Greece
As I close in on 100 countries visited in a lifetime of roaming… I’m retracing my route… A family holiday in Crete gave free reign to a young mind that…
DUBROVNIK: WANTED, DEAD OR ALIVE
Dubrovnik is sometimes described as a “living museum”, where its people live alongside one of Europe’s most stunning medieval walled cities. Naturally, locals commuting to work, doing the school run…
Country 5: Spain
As I close in on 100 countries visited in a lifetime of roaming… I’m retracing my route… My first visit to Spain was pretty stereotypical…
Country 4: Austria
As I close in on 100 countries visited during a lifetime of roaming… I’m retracing my route… It was another school trip, this time for skiing
Country 3: New Zealand
As I close in on 100 countries visited during a lifetime of roaming… I’m retracing my route… My first ever flight is still one of my longest…
Country 2: France
As I close in on 100 countries visited during a lifetime of roaming… I’m retracing my route… A short hop across the Channel and an obligatory day trip for many…
The scars of war
There can be few places where the scars of the Bosnian War remain so evident today: buildings pocked with bullet holes, split by shells or shorn of their roofs, and…
Country 1: United Kingdom
As I close in on 100 countries visited during a lifetime of roaming… I’m retracing my route… I’m reliably informed that the UK was the first country I ever set…
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