One recap of 2012 which was an odd year what with the international move and all. Still in the second half I managed to get a lot of travel in leaving aside the almost monthly trips to Amsterdam by train. Dopplr unfortunately does not give me a total amount of kilometers travelled for 2012 anymore.
The funny thing is that I visited a lot of capitals of countries that I hadn’t visited before even though I may have visited the country.
To Madrid in February: I had been to Spain often but never visited either Madrid or Barcelona.
To Athens in June: I had not ever been to Greece at all, so this was all new. A lot more fun than Madrid by the way.
To Paris in July: I’d been to France a couple of times but never to Paris yet.
To Helsinki in July: Another new capital and country, a visit which was very enjoyable both because of the company and because of the immense livability of the city.
To Beijing in October: A long overdue visit to China which was even more elucidating than it was enjoyable.
Not to (Canberra) in October: Though I did visit both Melbourne and Sydney which don’t count.
To Moscow in December: A nice combination of business and personal visits and a welcome confrontation with the weirdness of Russia.
Which makes my visited countries map look like this:
