(land #26) in a land once closed to outsiders

(land #25) the land that broke away from Serbia in 2006

(land #24) a walled hub and a trip to an island

stopping over in this "country within a country"

(land #23) towns hurt by earlier fighting but building back strong

(land #22) - my first "former Yugoslavian country"

(land #21) - my first "Eastern Bloc" country!

(land #20) on the way to/from Sofia, Bulgaria

2nd time in Iceland going around the Ring Road (in the winter!)

(land #19) a self-led trip homing in on one land

(land #18) first time in Iceland (Reykjavik and Golden Circle)

some inland landmarks (words only)

(land #17) the Canada of the Caribbean (words only)

London (a déjà vu of 2002)

the grand place

(land #16) windmills and blue-hued crafts

(land #15) where the Napoleonic Wars ended in 1815

2 nights on my first time in Paris

(land #13) a bite of southern France

(land #14) an afternoon in one of the world's smallest lands

last night in Italy on this European trip

(land #12) seeing the Swiss Alps

(land #11) "Augtoberfest" at a well-known Bavarian brewhouse

(land #10) two towns in the land of songs

the walker and boater's town

the town of Michelangelo (text only)

a leaning building as the marker of Italy

(land #9) the "smallest in the world"

(land #8) the old world at its height

(land #7) six big hubs of the middle kingdom