Countries visited
36
45 total
Europe
Exploring Europe
I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
Featured adventure
2018: Alpine Adventure
Across Europe with a camera — fjords, capitals, and ridgelines in the same frame.
I went in on a single rail pass with a camera and a notebook, no fixed plan beyond it — mountain passes one day, Baltic harbours the next, capital-city crowds the day after that. Cobblestones and ridgelines in the same trip, sometimes the same afternoon.
Open adventureOpen Alpine AdventureOn the map
Where Europe lives on my map — how many countries already have a hub, how many place stories are live, and a chart you can flip between country view and individual pins.
Coverage
80.0%
Places Visited
202
Map mode
Countries
Aggregated by country centroid
Europe visited map
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Most explored countries in this view
- Sweden65 places
- United Kingdom46 places
- Malta11 places
- Bosnia And Herzegovina8 places
- France7 places
Special territories
Territories with their own story collections — listed here so you can open them quickly; they don’t count as extra countries in the regional totals.
Countries
Every country in Europe that I track on the site is listed below — one steady roll-call so the map and the numbers tell the same story. 36 of 46 already open to a hub with published guides; the rest stay on the list so you can see what I haven’t written yet.Countries with a hub or place pages are listed first. The other 10 sit under “Open full list of countries” — expand it for the complete UN set (including countries that already have guides), aligned with the map totals, without scrolling past dozens of tiles to find what you can read today.
Hubs & place stories
AustriaI really feel great in Austria, I love my home and Vienna is just the best place to be.
BelgiumI grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
Bosnia and HerzegovinaI am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia
BulgariaBulgaria is a fascinating, beautiful, difficult country, and I fell in love with it.
CroatiaCroatia has been glorious - it's so beautiful, and I want to go back as often as I can.
CzechiaThe Czech Republic are coming from behind in more than one way now.
DenmarkDenmark is like a secret little place with its own special language.
EstoniaCreating a new country from scratch has given Estonia the license to imagine what a country could be.
FinlandMy favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person
FranceI wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.- Josephine Baker
GermanyGermany has become a country that many people abroad associate with hope.
GreeceIn many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece
HungaryIn Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
IcelandI would like to go to Iceland to see the northern lights.
IrelandWe may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.
ItalyYou may have the universe if I may have Italy.
LatviaLatvia!
LiechtensteinI grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
LithuaniaAnd finally, the bald man joined in, singing out national anthem. 'Lithuania, land of heroes...
LuxembourgLuxembourg: place guides with photographs, maps, and notes from the road.
MaltaMalta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread.
MonacoI have found serenity at Monaco.
NetherlandsThe whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
NorwayI want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.
PolandI grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
PortugalI’ve got two places I like to be. Portugal is one
RomaniaI can go on forever, Romania is so beautiful!
RussiaRussia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
SerbiaSerbia is open for business.
SlovakiaI don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge Wells.- Tom Stoppard
SpainBarcelona is a great city and Spain is a great country to live in.
Sweden“There’s something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.”
SwitzerlandIt's tough to find a place not to like in Switzerland.
TürkiyeIstanbul is the city where continents argue in whispers and call it music.
UkraineI promise everyone who comes to Ukraine can see a beautiful country.- Vitali Klitschko
United KingdomThe four home nations that make up our United Kingdom are bound together by historic links. We have, and always will be, better together.
Open full list of countries
10 without a guide
Every sovereign state in this region on the UN list — same as the map totals — with links where a hub or place page exists.
- AlbaniaAlbania: place guides with photographs, maps, and notes from the road.
- AndorraAndorra: place guides with photographs, maps, and notes from the road.
- AustriaI really feel great in Austria, I love my home and Vienna is just the best place to be.
- BelarusBelarus: place guides with photographs, maps, and notes from the road.
- BelgiumI grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
- Bosnia and HerzegovinaI am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia
- BulgariaBulgaria is a fascinating, beautiful, difficult country, and I fell in love with it.
- CroatiaCroatia has been glorious - it's so beautiful, and I want to go back as often as I can.
- CyprusCyprus: place guides with photographs, maps, and notes from the road.
- CzechiaThe Czech Republic are coming from behind in more than one way now.
- DenmarkDenmark is like a secret little place with its own special language.
- EstoniaCreating a new country from scratch has given Estonia the license to imagine what a country could be.
- FinlandMy favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person
- FranceI wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.- Josephine Baker
- GermanyGermany has become a country that many people abroad associate with hope.
- GreeceIn many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece
- HungaryIn Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
- IcelandI would like to go to Iceland to see the northern lights.
- IrelandWe may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.
- ItalyYou may have the universe if I may have Italy.
- LatviaLatvia!
- LiechtensteinI grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
- LithuaniaAnd finally, the bald man joined in, singing out national anthem. 'Lithuania, land of heroes...
- LuxembourgLuxembourg: place guides with photographs, maps, and notes from the road.
- MaltaMalta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread.
- MoldovaMoldova: place guides with photographs, maps, and notes from the road.
- MonacoI have found serenity at Monaco.
- MontenegroMontenegro: place guides with photographs, maps, and notes from the road.
- NetherlandsThe whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
- North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia: place guides with photographs, maps, and notes from the road.
- NorwayI want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.
- PolandI grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
- PortugalI’ve got two places I like to be. Portugal is one
- RomaniaI can go on forever, Romania is so beautiful!
- RussiaRussia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
- San MarinoSan Marino: place guides with photographs, maps, and notes from the road.
- SerbiaSerbia is open for business.
- SlovakiaI don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge Wells.- Tom Stoppard
- SloveniaSlovenia: place guides with photographs, maps, and notes from the road.
- SpainBarcelona is a great city and Spain is a great country to live in.
- Sweden“There’s something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.”
- SwitzerlandIt's tough to find a place not to like in Switzerland.
- TürkiyeIstanbul is the city where continents argue in whispers and call it music.
- UkraineI promise everyone who comes to Ukraine can see a beautiful country.- Vitali Klitschko
- United KingdomThe four home nations that make up our United Kingdom are bound together by historic links. We have, and always will be, better together.
- Vatican CityVatican City: place guides with photographs, maps, and notes from the road.