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As of November 2023, the map of the countries that I’ve been to looks like this:

Where I have been

  1. Australia
  2. Austria
  3. Belgium
  4. Canada
  5. Cambodia
  6. China
  7. The Czech Republic
  8. England
  9. Estonia
  10. Finland
  11. Germany
  12. Greece
  13. Hong Kong
  14. India
  15. Indonesia
  16. Iran
  17. Italy
  18. Japan
  19. Laos
  20. Latvia
  21. Lithuania
  22. Macau
  23. Malaysia
  24. Mexico
  25. Myanmar (Burma)
  26. The Netherlands
  27. New Zealand
  28. Oman
  29. The Philippines
  30. Poland
  31. Qatar
  32. Scotland
  33. Singapore
  34. Slovakia
  35. South Africa
  36. South Korea
  37. Taiwan
  38. Thailand
  39. Turkey
  40. United Arab Emirates
  41. The United States
  42. Vatican City
  43. Vietnam

These are the itineraries that I have done as an adult

2006/07: HelsinkiTurku – Rovaniemi – Helsinki

2009: Warsaw – Mikolajki … Krakow – Zakopane – Warsaw

2010: San Diego (base) – Leon – Guanajuato … Los Angeles – Vancouver (+Whistler) – Seattle – Los Angeles

2011: Christchurch (base) – Hanmer Springs – Tekapo – Mount Cook – Kaikoura … Akaroa

2011: London – York – Newcastle – Edinburgh – St Andrews – Glasgow – Oban – Arran – Manchester – Birmingham – Northampton – London – Salisbury – Bath – Bristol – Stratford – London

2012: Taipei – Hualien

2013: Helsinki – TallinnKuressaare – Tartu – Riga (+Sigulda – Cesis) – Nida – Vilnius – Warsaw – Lublin – Krakow – Wroclaw – Dresden – Bamberg – Nuremberg – Cologne (+ Trier) – Utrecht – AmsterdamAntwerpBrussels (+Ghent) – Berlin – Poznan – GnieznoTorunGdansk (2) – TurkuJyväskyläTampere – Frankfurt

2013/14: Auckland (+Whangarei – Paihia – Kerikeri – Cape Reinga – Ahipara) – Rotorua – Taupo – Napier – Wellington – Kaikoura – Christchurch (+Akaroa) – OamaruDunedin – Curio Bay – Stewart Island – Invercargill – Te AnauMilford Sound – Queenstown – Wanaka – Fox GlacierFranz Josef – Hokitika – Punakaiki

2014: Hobart – Launceston – Bay of Fires – Bicheno – Port Arthur … Melbourne

2014: ShanghaiSiem Reap

2015: Malacca, Bangkok

2015: YogyakartaBorobudur – Surakarta – Yogyakarta

2016: Tehran – Yazd – Esfahan – Shiraz (+Persepolis) (Iran itinerary)

2016: George Town, Hong Kong – Macau, Ha Noi (+Ninh Binh), Siem Reap, Beijing

2017: Vienna – Graz – Bratislava – Brno – Warsaw – KaunasŠiauliai – Salaspils – Pärnu – Tallinn – Helsinki (+Porvoo)

2017: Luang Prabang, Yangon, MandalayBagan

2017: Rome (+Vatican City) – Florence – Pisa – Rome (via Helsinki)

2018: Tokyo, Bohol, SydneySaigon, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei

2018: DohaMuscat – Khasab – Sharqiya Sands – Nizwa

2019: Seoul, Busan, Kuching, Dubai, Istanbul, Cape Town, L’Agulhas

2020: Penang

2022: Sydney, Saigon

2023: Athens – Meteora – Delphi – Nafplio, Abu Dhabi

2023: Hong Kong, Sydney, Wellington

2023: Delhi – Agra – Jaipur – Jodhpur

2024: Bangkok, Jeju – Seoul

My wishes

I would love to paint the entire map but that is going to take some time and a lot of money. I would also like to return to a few of the countries I’ve already been to, such as England, Latvia, the United States and Germany, to see different cities and re-visit friends in familiar ones.

Many people are guilty of putting off visits to neighbouring sights in favour of faraway destinations. As you can see, I’m one of them. After all, Europe is as exotic to me as Asia is to someone from the old world. I know I will go to Cambodia and Myanmar and revisit Indonesia, where all the ancient sites that I studied in art history class are. Hopefully, it’ll happen before my legs give way or I get sick of flying. 2 January 2018: I can now say that I’ve seen Angkor, Borobudur, Prambanan and Bagan.

See my full Bucket List