And this is what my journey looks like if you break it down into figures and statistics:
In figures, I was…
- travelling a total of 185.608 km
- flying 105.991 miles (or 170.576 km) by plane
- taking 55.000 pictures
- driving 9.195 km by car or bus
- riding 5.280 km by train
- sailing 557 km by ferry and boat
- travelling a total of 536 days
- flying a total of 195 hours (or 8,2 days)
- spending an average of 81 Euro per day in each city
- staying in Australia for 80 days (1. place)
- visiting a total of 74 different cities
- sleeping in 68 different beds
- spending 67 days in Melbourne (1. place)
- blowing 52 tons of CO2 into the air while
- taking 46 flights
- of which 38 were with Star Alliance
- through 34 different airports
- checking into 32 hotels
- and 29 Airbnb homes
- using 23 Boeing
- and 22 Airbus planes
- over 18 months
- visiting 16 countries or territories
- with 15 Airbus 320 (most popular plane)
- using 14 different airlines
- through 14 time zones
- crossing the equator 8 times
- over 6 continents
- flying Air Canada 6 times (most popular airline)
- renting 6 rental cars
- taking 6 ferries and boats
- staying at 5 friends’ places
- switching over to daylight savings time 4 times (and never back)
- crossing the Pacific Ocean 4 times
- and 3 times the Atlantic Ocean
- enjoying 3 summer solstices in a row
- skipping 2 winters
- crossing the Indian Ocean 2 times
- losing 2 days due to the jump over the international date line
- using 2 passports
- … 1 me.
I am sure I’ll come up with more in the future, and I’ll add it to the list, so check back on it.