Liechtenstein

[Image description: flag of Liechtenstein]

My blog has just notched up several visits from someone(s) in Liechtenstein. Don't recall seeing Liechtensteiner visitors previously, but could just have missed them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein. (By the by, a female citizen is known as a Liechtensteinerin.) The country is sandwiched between Austria to the East and North and Switzerland to the West and South.

[Image description: map of Liechtenstein;

courtesy Wikipedia; commons ©;

author Maximilian Dörrbecker (Chumwa)]

Whilst Liechtenstein is in continental Europe, it is not part of the EU, the European Union. Nonetheless, it is a signatory to the Council of Europe (since 1978), Schengen, the free movement agreement, EFTA and EEA.

Thanks for visiting, whoever you were. And how exciting to discover more about parts of Europe one knew next-to-nothing about!

Réunion

My blog has notched up its first visit from someone on Réunion. Frankly, I have to admit, whilst I had heard the name, I had no notion as to where the island is to be found. So as ever I had to look it up on Wikipedia. It is situated in the Indian Ocean, East of Madagascar.

[Image description: flag of Réunion; courtesy Wikipedia]

What is particularly interesting, is via colonialism Réunion is classed as an Outermost Region of the European Union and as such the currency is the Euro (€).

[Image description: map of Réunion; courtesy Wikipedia]

Thanks for visiting, whoever you were. And how exciting to continue discovering parts of Europe one knew nothing about!

Latvia

My blog has just notched up fourteen visits from someone(s) in Latvia. Don't recall seeing Latvian visitors previously, but could just have missed them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia. The country is sandwiched between Estonia to the North and Lithuania to the South. I'm sure it's not meant to represent this, but the country's flag does remind me of a cheese sarnie (butty/sandwich).

[Image description: flag of Latvia]

[Image description: map of Latvia

reproduced with permission (q.v.)]

Thanks for visiting, whoever you were. And how exciting to discover more about parts of Europe one knew next-to-nothing about!

Åland Islands

My blog has just notched up its first visit from someone on the Åland Islands. Frankly, I have to admit, I have never heard of them; so had to look them up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Åland_Islands. They are situated between Finland and Sweden.

[Image description: flag of Åland Islands]

[Image description: map of Åland Islands

reproduced with permission (q.v.)]

Thanks for visiting, whoever you were. And how exciting to discover parts of Europe one knew nothing about!