Innsbruk - Dreaming of a White April

Greetings from Snowy Innsbruk Austria. There is the smell of a fresh beginning in the air this evening with the footy gods smiling back home on the Pies . We drove for 3 or 4 hours in the Snow today to get here and it all better be worth it when we meet Dave on Monday. We´ve left the sun and beach for 5 layers of clothing and snow but it will be great to finally catch up with someone from home. By the way you can read Dave´s blog here.

The highlight for today was knocking over another 2 countries. That puts me on 26 and Cathy on 29. In a later blog I´ll set them all out but for now I´ll explain the rules of country counting Cathy and Chris style.

1. you count Australia, it is a country.

2. you don´t count airport transits if you don´t go through border control. So I don´t get Singapore yet.

3. you do count a country like Scotland or Macau separately, as you go through border control to get to Macau and Scotland is a self ruled part of the United Kingdom.

4. if you go to a country like the former Yugoslavia and it breaks into other countries, you count the countries you have been to as at today´s date.

5. And don´t knock The Vatican, Andorra, Lichenstein and San Marino. They are all countries baby!

6. you count the country even if you don´t sleep there. Therefore Trav and I get Mexico despite spending only 3 hours stunned at the antics of Tijuana.

Next week I´ll set out our achievements to date. Cathy is definitely on the run to 50 by the time we get home.