I'm not fond of this sort of map, because while I spent much time in Russia, for example, it was just the southwestern portion of that time and place. That was a lot of territory I wandered through, about twice the size of Texas or France or Ukraine, but still in the scale of Russia, it was just a little piece of Russia.
And then the United States, where I've never been to Alaska or the west coast or the south; the map makes it seem as if I've been all over. And as for Canada, everything from Manitoba eastward to Quebec.
I tended to stay on the fringes of countries; the first time I went to Great Britain, for example, as a teenager, I immediately left London and went for the Shetland and Orkney Islands. The other two times (all three times from circa mid-December until the first part of March), I immediately left London and headed for Canterbury near the English Channel. Winter is absolutely the very best time to be in England, and I mean that.
I was actually in Paris, France, two times, but spent 99% of my time in France along the borders of the five-sided country. In Germany, I hugged the border closest to France and the Benelux countries.
I was in Morocco three and a half days, in the backwoods. I've never cared for the playgrounds of the rich and the primitives.
It was in northern Spain I learned of the sad fate of the painter Pablo Picasso's cousin.
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