Author: Colin Berry

It’s over a year now since CV19 appeared, allegedly in China, and rapidly spread world wide – that so-called global pandemic.

Are matters improving at last?

Here for starters is a listing of all the countries – large or small -that I’ve previously visited outside the UK, organized roughly north to south where Europe and Africa are concerned.

1. Finland (inc. Ivalo, 200 miles north of Arctic Circle)
2. Sweden (to verbally examine a PhD candidate’s thesis in public!)
3. Denmark (Copenhagen – somewhat disappointing)
4. Germany (Berlin especially memorable)
5. Netherlands
6. Belgium (Bruges highly memorable).
7. France (8 years full-time residence in historic port-town of Antibes on the Riviera, approx halfway between Cannes and Nice).

Historic country, vast array of scenery, but something lacking tourist-wise – lack of communication, joie de vivre?).