Views from Around the World

Wednesday, August 12/15

So I've been scanning the statistics on my blog and really get a kick out of the various spots around the globe where someone has viewed the blog from over the last year.

I expected viewings from Canada and the U.S. but have been more than a little surprised to see  a lot of recent activity from places like Portugal, Germany, Australia, and the Ukraine.

It reminds me that while we live on this big globe floating through space and are separated by both miles and language that we still have the ability to communicate with one another.

Unfortunately for me I'm perfectly unilingual but appreciate the effort people have made to learn English and take a gander at my ramblings. No, that isn't me saying anyone learned English in order to read my blog as I don't have that kind of ego nor do I think what I write is so important than anyone would learn a new language just to follow me, but wouldn't that be kind of cool if someone did....

Hopefully some of the postings give people a little look at my neck of the woods and makes them interested in coming to visit someday, my area and not necessarily me lol.

When I was younger I used to read books like "All Things Great & Small" about being a vet in the midlands of England and it left me with this visual in my head that was further enhanced by all of the Dick Francis novels I've read about horse racing in England.  There are times I've been reading and used Google maps to get a better view of what is being described - so very cool and awesome to be able to do that at the spur of the moment.

So far I've seen viewings from the following countries:
Canada
United States
Germany
India
Malaysia
Australia
New Zealand
Portugal
France
Ukraine
Russia
South Africa
Norway

Who knew that something so trivial could find it's way around the world.

Marcus