I think it’s unlikely that I’ll spend any more nights away from home this year, so it’s probably safe to do the overnights meme. This year it’s 20 places in 9 countries, with those place where I spent non-consecutive nights marked with an asterisk.

*London, UK
Los Angeles, USA
The Hague, Netherlands
Geneva, Switzerland
Birmingham, UK
Kidderminster, UK
Cambridge, UK
Glasgow, UK
*Paris, France
St-Hilaire-sur-Helpe, France
Hoofddorp, Netherlands
Zagreb, Croatia
*Ferry between France and Ireland
*Loughbrickland, UK
Heathrow, UK
Beijing, China
Chengdu, China
Oslo, Norway
Natick, USA
Providence, USA

I am counting the overnight ferry, which I feel is in the spirit of the meme, though not four intercontinental overnight plane flights (two from the USA to Europe, two between Brussels and Beijing). Whether nineteen or twenty, it’s bang in the middle of the historical range since I started counting.

I also changed places in Germany and Denmark, and drove through the Republic of Ireland, and I live in Belgium, so my total country tally for the year is 13, the fourth lowest of the fourteen years that I have tracked, even though I added two new countries this year.

Next year will be the twentieth that I have done this calculation.