This is a heat map of where I’ve been from the photos that I’ve taken. There are some gaps here as I used a camera for some trips rather than a phone and my trips to Russia seem to have entirely disappeared. Anyway, it means that the only European countries (I’m going to include the Vatican City and similar here, regardless of what they actually are) that I have left to visit are:
Vatican City
Belarus
Moldova
Iceland
Kosovo
Monaco
Andorra
San Marino
North Macedonia
Bosnia & Herzegovina
I mention this as I’ve persuaded Jonathan, who I went travelling to Turkey/Georgia and Armenia with in January and February, to take me to Montenegro and Bosnia & Herzegovina in September. He can deal with rural public transport and I’ll deal with food options, it’s a fair allocation of resources. Some people divide travel responsibilities by navigation, accommodation and logistics. We are operating at a more advanced level, namely buses for him and lunch for me to worry about.
Belarus I can’t really go to at the moment and it’ll be a faff to tick off the micro-states/countries of Vatican City, Andorra, Monaco and San Marino but I’ll work it out. There are some Wizz Air possibilities to Iceland, Moldova and North Macedonia hopefully not far away, perhaps I can even visit those this year.
And then maybe I might start going outside Europe, but at least I have an exciting rail trip around Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia to look forward to in September. What could possibly go wrong?