Today, twothree days after my birthday, is another interesting anniversary of mine: it's now been five years since I left Australia permanently. On May 21st 2005, I took a Malaysian Airlines flight from Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur on the first leg of my first trip to Europe, and left my homeland for the first time.
Damn, five years already.....where on earth did all the time ago?!
So in that spirit - comparing to how much I'd seen of the world at the time in
2005,
2006,
2007,
2008, and
2009 - here's what I've seen of the world five years later.
create your own visited countries map Of course, I keep a more-detailed version of current travels on my website (click to enlarge):
![](http://www.lordstorm.net/wanders/gallery/map-world.png)
Not bad for five years' effort! Let's see where another year will take me. :)
May, 2009:
![](http://lordstorm.net/wanders/gallery/thumbs/tflag-wl.gif)
Wales (II)
![](http://lordstorm.net/wanders/gallery/thumbs/tflag-ie.gif)
Ireland (II)
![](http://lordstorm.net/wanders/gallery/thumbs/tflag-ni.gif)
Northern Ireland (II)
![](http://lordstorm.net/wanders/gallery/thumbs/tflag-fi.gif)
Finland (II)
June, 2009:
![](http://lordstorm.net/wanders/gallery/thumbs/tflag-ru.gif)
Russia
![](http://lordstorm.net/wanders/gallery/thumbs/tflag-ua.gif)
Ukraine
![](http://lordstorm.net/wanders/gallery/thumbs/tflag-hu.gif)
Hungary (III)
![](http://lordstorm.net/wanders/gallery/thumbs/tflag-at.gif)
Austria (III)
October, 2009:
![](http://lordstorm.net/wanders/gallery/thumbs/tflag-eg.gif)
Egypt
![](http://lordstorm.net/wanders/gallery/thumbs/tflag-ly.gif)
Libya
![](http://lordstorm.net/wanders/gallery/thumbs/tflag-tn.gif)
Tunisia
November, 2009:
![](http://lordstorm.net/wanders/gallery/thumbs/tflag-dz.gif)
Algeria
![](http://lordstorm.net/wanders/gallery/thumbs/tflag-ma.gif)
Morocco
![](http://lordstorm.net/wanders/gallery/thumbs/tflag-gi.gif)
Gibraltar
February, 2010:
![](http://lordstorm.net/wanders/gallery/thumbs/tflag-is.gif)
Iceland