Where in the World? - 2025/2026 edition
Has it been a whole YEAR already? Time certainly flies when the news cycle is on super-spin mode! My regular readership will probably remember that I’m reading around the world in the sense that I’m reading fictionalised tales in real locations. This means that SF or Fantasy doesn’t count even if it takes place is a version of London or New York. But it’s the location that counts, not the authors origins or anything of that kind. So, where have I been this last year? Updates, as usual, in BOLD.
Afghanistan – 2Australia – 1
Botswana - ½
Burma – 1 (NEW)
Canada – 2
China – 2 (+1)
Crete - 1
Cuba – 2
Cyprus – 1 (NEW)
England – 95 ½ (+9)
Estonia - 1
France – 18 (+4)
Germany – 5 ½
Greece – 2
Holland - 1
India – 2
Ireland – 2 (+1)
Italy – 6 (+2)
Iraq - 1
Jamaica - 1
Japan – 5 ½ (+2)
Norway – 2
Malaya - 1
Portugal – 4 (+1)
Russia – 5 (+1)
Scotland - 2
South Africa – 1
Spain – 4 (+1)
Sweden - 3
Turkey - 2
Ukraine – 2 (+1)
USA – 63 (+5)
Vietnam – 3
That's presently just slightly under 17% of the world... by total number of countries, not total area or anything!
Although I’ve only added a disappointing TWO new countries to the list, I am encouraged by the spread even if the US and UK (OK, England) get the lion's share of visits! In the next 12 months I’m going to aim for at least THREE new countries and might even manage to push it to FOUR with a bit of effort. Wish me luck!
4 comments:
That's great, Kitten.
I always include this in my statistics, slightly different from you list. But I "visited" 43 countries last year. However, I never include which ones were new, must do that next time.
https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/statistics-2025.html
I'm 'in' Argentina at the moment (well will be back there on Monday as this is "Non-fiction Sunday") and even have a 'visit' to Israel coming up - which will be 'interesting' no doubt! So two new countries in the next year should be easy which is why I'm fairly confident for three or MORE!
Oh, so you only read non-fiction on Sundays? That's also an interesting idea.
I just checked. The only "new" country I added last year was Luxembourg but that was only a minor part in that book.
I noticed some time ago that I wasn't reading anything like enough non-fiction. So I decided that on Sunday I would *only* read non-fiction - which (of course) meant that now around 50% of my reading is non-fiction. Works for me!
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