Travels

A map of my world — the cities and countries I've visited.

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• 34 countries
• 80 cities

Lived in

• Lviv, Ukraine December 1983 – February 2009
• Kraków, Poland July – September 2005
• Nicosia, Cyprus March 2009 – November 2012
• Limassol, Cyprus since November 2012

Visited and yet to go

Asia 3/44

Central Asia 0/5

Eastern Asia 0/6

Southern Asia 1/9

Southeast Asia 1/11

Western Asia 1/13

Europe 26/49

Northern Europe 4/10

Western Europe 5/9

Southern Europe 7/18

Eastern Europe 10/12

Africa 2/55

Northern Africa 1/7

Eastern Africa 0/18

Middle Africa 0/9

Southern Africa 1/5

Western Africa 0/16

Americas 2/36

North America 0/3

Caribbean 0/13

Central America 0/8

South America 2/12

Oceania 0/14

Australia & NZ 0/2

Melanesia 0/4

Micronesia 0/5

Polynesia 0/3

Regions and subregions follow the UN M49 standard geoscheme. One deliberate exception: Turkey, Cyprus, Georgia and Armenia — which M49 files under Western Asia — are shown in Europe, where they sit in everyday political and cultural terms (EU, Council of Europe, UEFA).

Places

• Ancient site 5
• Historical site 33
• Museum 14
• Places of worship 28
• Natural site 14
• UNESCO World Heritage Site 21
• Tentative UNESCO Tentative List 1

Underlined place names link out — to Wikipedia, or, where there is no article, the official site or UNESCO listing.

Countries visited — tap a flag to filter the trips

• Chișinău, Moldova February 2026
  • Cricova wineryTentative — (Combinatul de Vinuri „Cricova”) a guided tour of the underground cellars — roughly 120 km of galleries, among the largest in the world
• Barcelona, Spain November 2025
  • Park GüellUNESCO — (Parc Güell) Antoni Gaudí's mosaic-tiled park on Carmel Hill, part of the "Works of Antoni Gaudí"
• Thessaloniki, Greece August 2025
• Gythio, Greece July 2025
• Corinth, Greece July 2025
  • Ancient Corinth — (Archaia Korinthos) the archaeological site of the ancient Greek and Roman city, with the ruined Temple of Apollo
• Prague, Czech Republic February 2025
  • Charles BridgeUNESCO — (Karlův most)
  • The Lesser TownUNESCO — (Malá Strana)
  • Old Town SquareUNESCO — (Staroměstské náměstí)
• Budapest, Hungary January 2025
  • Heroes' SquareUNESCO — (Hősök tere)
  • City Park — (Városliget) the large public park behind Heroes' Square
  • Fisherman's BastionUNESCO — (Halászbástya) the neo-Romanesque terrace in the Buda Castle Quarter; dined at the Halászbástya restaurant
  • Matthias ChurchUNESCO — (Mátyás-templom) the Church of Our Lady of Buda Castle, in the Buda Castle Quarter
  • Gellért Thermal Bath — (Gellért gyógyfürdő és uszoda) the Art Nouveau thermal bath complex
• Bratislava, Slovakia January 2025
  • The medieval city walls — (Stredoveké mestské hradby)
  • The Old Town Hall — (Stará radnica)
• Tbilisi, Georgia September 2024
  • A wine museum
  • St. Alexander Nevsky Church — (Aleksandre Nevelis sakhelobis eklesia)
• Dresden, Germany August 2024
  • The Church of Our Lady — (Frauenkirche) the Baroque Lutheran church rebuilt from rubble after WWII
• Chemnitz, Germany August 2024
• Leipzig, Germany August 2024
  • Monument to the Battle of the Nations — (Völkerschlachtdenkmal) the monument commemorating the 1813 Battle of Leipzig
• Potsdam, Germany August 2024
• Berlin, Germany August 2024
• Thessaloniki, Greece June 2024
  • The Holy Metropolitan Church of Saint Gregory Palamas — (Ieros Mitropolitikos Naos Agiou Grigoriou Palama)
• Koh Samui, Thailand May 2024
• Bangkok, Thailand May 2024
  • Wat Arun — (Wat Arun Ratchawararam Ratchaworamahawihan) the Temple of Dawn, the riverside Buddhist temple in Thonburi, known for its towering prang
• Prague, Czech Republic March 2024
• Martvili, Georgia March 2024
  • Martvili Monastery — (Martvilis monasteri)
• Gachedili, Georgia March 2024
  • Martvili Canyon — (Martvilis kanioni) the river canyon, also called Gachedili Canyon
• Bakuriani, Georgia March 2024
• Kutaisi, Georgia March 2024
• Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates February 2024
  • Emirates Palace — (Qasr al-Imarat) the landmark palace hotel (Mandarin Oriental)
  • Qasr Al Watan — (Qasr al-Watan) the presidential palace, open as a cultural landmark
  • Louvre Abu Dhabi — (Mathaf al-Luvr Abu Zabi) the art museum designed by Jean Nouvel
  • Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque — (Jami al-Shaykh Zayid al-Kabir)
• Stockholm, Sweden November 2023
• Naples, Italy October 2023
• Amalfi, Italy October 2023
• Vilnius, Lithuania July 2023
  • Energy and Technology Museum — (Energetikos ir technikos muziejus)
  • The Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights — (Okupacijų ir laisvės kovų muziejus) in the former KGB building
  • Gediminas CastleUNESCO — (Gedimino pilis) the hilltop tower above the old town
  • Vilnius CathedralUNESCO — (Vilniaus Šv. Stanislovo ir Šv. Vladislovo arkikatedra bazilika) the Cathedral Basilica of St Stanislaus and St Ladislaus
• Prague, Czech Republic April 2023
  • St. Vitus CathedralUNESCO — (Katedrála svatého Víta, Václava a Vojtěcha) the Gothic cathedral in Prague Castle, home of the Bohemian Crown Jewels
• Athens, Greece March 2023
• Warsaw, Poland February 2023
• Kraków, Poland February 2023
• Amsterdam, Netherlands February 2023
• Rio de Janeiro, Brazil February 2023
  • Christ the RedeemerUNESCO — (Cristo Redentor) the Art Deco statue atop Corcovado
  • Sugarloaf MountainUNESCO — (Pão de Açúcar) the cable-car ascent over Guanabara Bay
  • Tijuca National ParkUNESCO — (Parque Nacional da Tijuca) the world's largest urban rainforest
  • Copacabana BeachUNESCO — (Praia de Copacabana) the bay and Burle Marx's wave-pattern promenade
  • Metropolitan Cathedral — (Catedral de São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro) the modernist conical cathedral
  • Escadaria Selarón — the mosaic-tiled staircase by artist Jorge Selarón
  • Rocinha — Brazil's largest favela, on the Two Brothers hillside
  • Pedra do Telégrafo — the cliff-edge rock in Barra de Guaratiba overlooking the Grumari beaches, reached by a forest trail through Pedra Branca State Park
• Buenos Aires, Argentina February 2023
• Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil February 2023
  • Iguaçu FallsUNESCO — (Cataratas do Iguaçu) one of the world's largest waterfall systems, on the Argentina–Brazil border; seen from the Brazilian side
• Yerevan, Armenia December 2022
• Geghard, Armenia December 2022
  • Geghard MonasteryUNESCO — (Geghardi vank) the medieval monastery partly carved into the cliffs of the Azat gorge
• Garni, Armenia December 2022
  • Temple of Garni — (Garnii tachar) the 1st-century Greco-Roman colonnaded temple above the Azat gorge
• Chemnitz, Germany September 2022
• Dresden, Germany September 2022
  • The Zwinger palace — (Dresdner Zwinger)
  • Old Masters Picture Gallery — (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister) home to Raphael's Sistine Madonna
• Stuttgart, Germany September 2022
  • Mercedes-Benz Museum — the automotive history museum in the double-helix building
  • Stuttgart TV Tower — (Fernsehturm Stuttgart) the world's first reinforced-concrete telecommunications tower, completed 1956
  • Rotwildpark — the forested former royal hunting grounds south-west of the city
• Ludwigsburg, Germany September 2022
  • Ludwigsburg Palace — (Residenzschloss Ludwigsburg) the Baroque residential palace, among the largest in Germany
• Frankfurt am Main, Germany September 2022
  • City centre — (Innenstadt) the modern city centre and its skyline
  • Old town — (Altstadt) the old town, reconstructed after WWII
  • Römerberg — the historic central square, with the Römer city hall
• Cologne, Germany September 2022
  • Cologne CathedralUNESCO — (Kölner Dom) the Gothic cathedral
  • Altstadt-Nord — the old town quarter around the cathedral and the Rhine
  • Flora and Botanical Garden — (Flora und Botanischer Garten Köln) the 19th-century botanical garden and its glasshouse
• Münster, Germany September 2022
  • Münster Cathedral — (St.-Paulus-Dom) the Romanesque-Gothic cathedral
  • Prinzipalmarkt — the historic market street of arcaded gabled houses
  • St. Lamberti Church — (Lambertikirche) the Gothic church with the openwork spire and the three iron cages of the 1535 Anabaptist rebellion
  • Liebfrauen-Überwasser — the Gothic Pfarrkirche Liebfrauen-Überwasser, west of the cathedral
  • Überwasserkirchplatz — the square in front of the Überwasserkirche
• Düsseldorf, Germany September 2022
  • Old town — (Altstadt) the old town, known as "the longest bar in the world"
  • Carlstadt — the planned 18th-century quarter south of the old town
  • Market square — (Marktplatz) the old-town market square, with the Jan-Wellem equestrian statue and the Rathaus
  • War memorial in the Hofgarten — (Kriegerdenkmal im Hofgarten) the war memorial in the Hofgarten park
• Utrecht, Netherlands September 2022
  • Máximapark — the large landscaped park in the Leidsche Rijn district
  • Oudegracht — the medieval canal through the old town, with its wharf-level cellars
• Neuss, Germany August 2022
  • City centre — (Innenstadt) the city centre
• Düsseldorf, Germany August 2022
  • Kö-Park — the green space by the Königsallee
• Neandertal, Germany August 2022
  • The Neanderthal Museum — at the valley where the first Neanderthal fossil was found
  • Düssel and Mettmanner Bach valleys — (Täler von Düssel und Mettmanner Bach) the protected landscape of the Düssel and Mettmanner Bach valleys
• Koh Samui, Thailand April 2022
• Skhidnytsia, Ukraine August 2021
• Dresden, Germany February 2020
• Chemnitz, Germany February 2020
• Dresden, Germany December 2019
  • Old Masters Picture Gallery — (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister) in the Zwinger palace
• Berlin, Germany December 2019
• Chemnitz, Germany December 2019
• Kruševac, Serbia November 2019
• Vienna, Austria November 2019
  • The HofburgUNESCO — the former imperial palace
  • The Vienna State OperaUNESCO — (Wiener Staatsoper) saw a Wiener Staatsballett performance
  • St. Charles's Church — (Karlskirche) the Baroque church of St. Charles
  • Belvedere Palace — (Schloss Belvedere) the Baroque palace, gardens, and art museum
  • The Soviet War Memorial — (Heldendenkmal der Roten Armee) at Schwarzenbergplatz
• Bratislava, Slovakia November 2019
  • Bratislava Castle — (Bratislavský hrad) the hilltop castle above the Danube
  • Michael's Gate — (Michalská brána) the last surviving medieval town gate
• Sofia, Bulgaria September 2019
  • Saint Nedelya Cathedral — (Katedralen hram „Sveta Nedelya“)
• Koprivshtitsa, Bulgaria September 2019
• Ronda, Spain September 2019
• Málaga, Spain September 2019
• Marbella, Spain September 2019
• Toledo, Spain September 2019
• Cáceres, Spain September 2019
• Tallinn, Estonia July 2019
• Dresden, Germany May 2019
• Chemnitz, Germany May 2019
• Prague, Czech Republic May 2019
• Tbilisi, Georgia April 2019
• Mtskheta, Georgia April 2019
  • Svetitskhoveli CathedralUNESCO — (Svetitskhovlis sakatedro tadzari) the 11th-century cathedral, one of the Historical Monuments of Mtskheta
• Prague, Czech Republic April 2019
• Budapest, Hungary March 2019
• Kyiv, Ukraine September 2018
  • Kyiv-Pechersk LavraUNESCO — (Kyievo-Pecherska lavra) the cave monastery
  • National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War — (Natsionalnyi muzei istorii Ukrainy u Druhii svitovii viini)
  • St Volodymyr's Cathedral — (Volodymyrskyi sobor)
• Berlin, Germany August 2018
• Chemnitz, Germany July 2018
• Dresden, Germany July 2018
• Madrid, Spain May 2018
  • The Palacio Real — the royal palace
  • Museo Nacional del PradoUNESCO — Spain's national art museum, on the Paseo del Prado
• Cáceres, Spain May 2018
• Sri Lanka January 2018
• Kyiv, Ukraine January 2018
  • St Volodymyr's Cathedral — (Volodymyrskyi sobor)
  • The Golden Gate — (Zoloti vorota)
  • St Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery — (Mykhailivskyi zolotoverkhyi monastyr)
• Rome, Italy August 2017
  • The ColosseumUNESCO — (Colosseo)
  • The Roman ForumUNESCO — (Foro Romano)
  • The PantheonUNESCO — the ancient temple, now a church
  • The Trevi Fountain — (Fontana di Trevi)
• Vatican City August 2017
  • The Vatican MuseumsUNESCO — (Musei Vaticani)
  • The Sistine ChapelUNESCO — (Cappella Sistina)
• Kraków, Poland August 2017
  • The Main Market SquareUNESCO — (Rynek Główny) within the Historic Centre of Kraków
• St. Petersburg, Russia January 2017
  • The Hermitage TheatreUNESCO — (Ermitazhny teatr)
  • The State Hermitage MuseumUNESCO — (Gosudarstvenny Ermitazh)
• St. Petersburg, Russia September 2016
  • Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art — (Muzey sovremennogo iskusstva Erarta)
• St. Petersburg, Russia July 2016
  • The Church of the Savior on Spilled BloodUNESCO — (Khram Spasa na Krovi)
  • Palace SquareUNESCO — (Dvortsovaya ploshchad)
• Moscow, Russia July 2016
  • Red SquareUNESCO — (Krasnaya ploshchad)
  • The Moscow KremlinUNESCO — (Moskovsky Kreml)
  • The Palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich — (Dvorets tsarya Alekseya Mikhailovicha) the reconstructed wooden palace at Kolomenskoye
  • The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts — (Gosudarstvenny muzey izobrazitelnykh iskusstv imeni A. S. Pushkina)
• Kyiv, Ukraine December 2015
• Istanbul, Turkey April 2015
  • The Blue MosqueUNESCO — (Sultan Ahmet Camii)
  • The Grand BazaarUNESCO — (Kapalıçarşı) the historic covered market
  • The Basilica CisternUNESCO — (Yerebatan Sarnıcı) the 6th-century Byzantine underground water cistern
• Bangkok, Thailand December 2014
  • Wat Pho — (Wat Pho) the Temple of the Reclining Buddha (Wat Phra Chetuphon), home of the giant reclining Buddha
• Paris, France September 2012
  • Notre-Dame de ParisUNESCO — (Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris) the medieval cathedral on the Île de la Cité
• Versailles, France September 2012
  • The Palace of VersaillesUNESCO — (Château de Versailles) the royal palace and its gardens
• Amsterdam, Netherlands April 2012
• The Hague, Netherlands April 2012
• Bruges, Belgium April 2012
• Brussels, Belgium April 2012
• London, United Kingdom August 2010
  • The British Museum — the glass-roofed Great Court and the Assyrian galleries
• Oxford, United Kingdom August 2010
  • New College — the cloisters, chapel, and the medieval dining hall
  • The Bridge of Sighs (Hertford Bridge) — the enclosed skyway over New College Lane
  • The Radcliffe Camera — the round Palladian library
  • The Divinity School — the medieval examination hall, with its fan-vaulted ceiling
• Cape Town, South Africa September 2009
• Sun City, South Africa August 2009
  • The Palace of the Lost City — the ornate resort hotel and its waterfalls
• Johannesburg, South Africa August 2009
• Marsa Alam, Egypt October 2008
• Dnipro, Ukraine June 2008
• Alanya, Turkey October 2007
• Alushta, Ukraine 2006
• Kraków, Poland July–September 2005
  • Wawel CastleUNESCO — (Zamek Królewski na Wawelu) the royal castle on Wawel Hill
• Wieliczka, Poland August 2005
  • The Wieliczka Salt MineUNESCO — (Kopalnia soli Wieliczka) the Royal Salt Mine, worked from the 13th century
• Kyiv, Ukraine September 2004
• Alushta, Ukraine 2003
• Moscow, Russia 2002
• Pomorie, Bulgaria 1995
• Tuapse, USSR 1988
• Anapa, USSR 1987