In one of my daydreaming moments on which place to visit next, I thought of creating a list of countries I visited so far and categorise them according alphabetically. The aim of this self-imposed challenge is to visit at least 26 countries in this lifetime, at least once per country.
How did my travel list fare?
Here’s my list and I highlighted in bold the beginning letter of the countries I have NOT yet visited.
A – Austria, solo travel in 2015
B – Belgium in 2006
C – Czech Republic (twice in a span of 6 months, Prague to experience Christmas market in Europe in winter and Prague again in spring time)
D – Not been so possibly Denmark because the others D’s are not too secure/safe or too far
E – England in 2006 – if this counts as “United Kingdom”, then I’ll aim to go to Estonia next!
F – Not been so my daughter said, France! France!
G – Germany in 2006
H – Hong Kong, if a long stopover counts! If not, I’d want to go to Hungary.
I – I want it to be Iceland! But more realistically, India, for me next year
J – Japan! I lived there for more than 10 years and Jordan.
K – Kenya would be a dream but just to cross this out, might get on a short flight to Kuwait!
L – Not been so Latvia (because the capital city of Riga looks really beautiful)
M – Maldives in 2014
N – Netherlands in 2006
O – There is only one O country – Oman and though it is connected to the UAE, I have NOT been there! * shame*
P – Philippines, where I lived from birth till I was 19.
Q – Qatar, only in the airport! And since there is only one country beginning with the letter Q, I would love to go out of the airport next time and explore Doha
R – Not been to Dracula’s lair, Romania. I’m sure there is more to this country than Dracula.
S – Singapore, a few times; Sri Lanka in 2014
T – Turkey on a blogger’s trip in 2013; Thailand on a blogger’s trip in 2011
U – United Arab Emirates, our home for 10 years now
V – Vatican City (If we make I to Italy then we can shoot two birds in one stone as Vatican is in Italy)
W – Wales – technically not a country (though the Welsh would disagree?). Other choices would only be Wallis and Fortuna and Western Sahara in Africa.
X – There is no country beginning with letter X so we’ll change a bit to LuXembourg or MeXico?
Y – the only country for Y is Yemen and for security and safety’s sake, I can’t imagine I’ll be going there any time soon
Z – a choice between Zambia and Zimbabwe, not sure if ever I’d get to any
So, technically, if we exclude W and X as well as unsafe Y, there are STILL 10 letters or ten countries I still need to go to, to complete this challenge. I might clear one or two next year.
Finding Backroads 