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It's turning out to a right beast, isn't it? But I knew that after I'd made the list of regions before I started out. We're looking at somewhere between 620 to 630 episodes. I had to remove a couple of countries from the list (Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina) due to lack of proper coverage, and I am still undecided whether to try and make some playable maps of Cyprus. I will decide on that before long. But yeah, the series should be running until June-ish next year. :) I have a thought or two about what I might do after that, but not sure I will do a fourth monster length series of GeoGuessing. Yet. :D

Look up the definition of "wriggly" in a dictionary, and it will surely say "See Epirus". Bon voyage up north! :)

@@stormbrewer3004 haha yep! I will post photos from the trip to X. The plan is to drive to Tromsø in two days. That's quite a drive because it's almost 1400 km away. I can drive long distances without a problem, but I don't want to drive in the dark where there are a lot of reindeers.

@@oh2mp I hear you. The other day I got close to crashing with a moose, a reindeer with her calf, and a flock of sheep, all in the space of twenty minutes ...

A bit like stubbing a toe on a table leg instead of holding your hand on a hot cooking plate ... :D

There might be some entertainment value in watching someone flailing around in your hometown, alright. :D

@@stormbrewer3004 exactly lmao.

Hey, a like is a like, even if it didn't show. 😁

Why, thank you! Back in my younger years, I went on some interrails through Eastern Europe, and after several misunderstandings in ticket offices about where I wanted to go, I figured I'd save myself a lot of trouble if I learned at least the basic pronounciations of the language areas I went through. That stuff sort is still sort of stuck in my brain, at least where the Slavic languages go. Hungarian - being the language anomaly it is - requires a mental 180 degree pronounciation turn, though.

I hear you! That was such a trial ...

Yeah, I spotted that while I was playing, and I think I made a comment in passing about it? I'll see if I can edit the map accordingly, but it'll be a bit tricky. :)

Kotsyubynske has now been edited out of the map. :)

​​@@stormbrewer3004Good job!Thanks

I totally concur. :D

You rocked that second round, alright. I think if I have one major flaw when playing this game, it is spending too much time looking for clues immediately around the starting point, rather than gunning it for the most information-heavy spot at once ... that said, it makes it easier for me to pin it once I know where I am. But pretty useless while I don't ... :D

A bit like playing the Netherlands, except that you usually get better road info. The trouble is finding the darn road with the number you're looking for ...

Why, thank you! :)

2 minutes is beastly. Playing with six, I start to get stressed after three ... :D

Nice one! :D

lol so I see :D

I should be less quick in making assumptions thinking things mean the same in Swedish and Norwegian, then. :)

@@stormbrewer3004 Kollade svenska akademins ordbok. Tydligen kan näs även betyda långsmal halvö också, men jag tror den vanligaste betydelsen är smal landremsa mellan två större landområden, eller fastlandet och en halvö. Ed kan betyda samma som näs fast mer i kontexten; smal landremsa där man måste bära båtarna från den ena vattenvägen till den andra. Halvö kallar vi också udde. Vad heter saker på norsk? Karelska Näset och Korintiska näset är exempel på kända näs.

Iceland is, like Finland ... well, come to think about it, like ANYWHERE, a place you certainly don't want third party content in your game ... But yeah, Iceland is sort of simple, unless you pick the wrong direction and then stick with it because you feel you have invested so much time going that way and don't want to waste the effort. :D

Fairly happy with the city rounds, and those rural rounds are just ugh anyway, so yeah. :)

Curse that barn. :D

It strange how I am running out of Finland though, while Portugal, Ireland and Bulgaria seem to have a neverending supply of regions ...

@@stormbrewer3004 yep. I googled that Portugal has 18, Finland 19 and Bulgaria 28 provinces/regions/whatever.

@@oh2mp Sometimes it feels like 57 each ...

Good to know you have some competition out there! I'm rapidly running out of bits of Finland left to play now ...

Ooops! You may have guessed right. :D It's fun with areas where the dialect is so unique that it is almost unintelligible to the rest of the country (or speakers of what is supposed to be the same language). The innermost reaches of Agder and Telemark have the same trait in Norway.

@@stormbrewer3004 yes I remember from your Norway series that you mentioned somewhere in Agder about their dialect :)

ALways! :)

Roger that. They aren't always that easy to catch when listening, though. But I'll use that as my general guideline from now. :)

The rebuilt old town center of Gdansk was quite cool - and veeeery touristy.

Yep. My last time was 2022 and then I was mostly hanging around in Sopot. One day I made just a quick visit to the new old Gdansk by a local train. But I had already explored it in the past.

Quite, but also very touristy.

You're better off than me, then. I'd much prefer Bach to the Brandenburg earworm I get when hearing the name ... a horrible Norwegian Eurovision song from 1990 - "Brandenburger Tor". :D

@@stormbrewer3004 I may have heard it but I don't remember it. Now I must find and listen to it :D

@@stormbrewer3004 It was a very typical Eurovision song :)

@@oh2mp VERY.

I suspected as much about the vowels - just been listening to your videos for a while and didn't quite pick that up, so I was still a little confused. Now I'm not. :)

@@stormbrewer3004 I just remembered how I explained our writing system to a Swede and said that if your cities were written with Finnish way, then Göteborg would be "Jöötebori" and Örebro would be "Öörebruu". Of course we don't do that but write foreign names as they are.

My RNG picked Normandy for very late in the series. I could move it closer, though. Doing a recording session again this weekend.

@@stormbrewer3004 okok do as you want

@@enkero1462 I tend to do that. ;)

But driving all those endless mi..waitaminute, that's just like Finland, without trees. ;)

@@stormbrewer3004 Hah! True!

Woop!

That's about as many kms as I clocked up when I went to Gotland at the start of this month. Brilliant place. :)

@@stormbrewer3004 I envy you a little about that Gotland trip. Some day...

@@oh2mp Shot about 5000 frames with my camera. My usual 1/10 rate of usable photage changed to 6/10. Massive editing task on Photoshop underway. :D

@@stormbrewer3004 I am not sure how many photos we took during our vacation trips. My wife's phone still contains some frames that aren't copied into our album yet. But I already counted the municipalities: 113 of 309. Drive throughs are counted because I have physically been inside the borders.

@@oh2mp Dang! A third+ of Finland covered! Quite the trip!

Hah! Cool! :)

That latter location I've been through so many times over the years, I could probably locate it in my sleep. :D

I wonder how such differences in topography between a capital and the rest of the country might reflect in how they view each other ...

Me too, but only to switch trains in the middle of the night, so no experience to draw upon, really. :)

@@stormbrewer3004 I went to see some tourist attractions, but there are gazillion of them to see :)

And still ~290 episodes to go ...

Thank you for the encouraging words! I have to admit I am a bit divided on the rather low number of viewers. Certainly, a part of me would love to share these places with more people, but on the other hand, I am quite content with having my own obscure little corner of YT. With more viewers comes more exposure and interaction, which means having to dedicate even more time to follow up on the series. Not a bad thing in and of itself, but not sure I would be able to deal with having to commit more time to my channel as a result of more traffic. (That said, my Norwegian series saw a lot more traffic, and never placed more of a "burden" on me ...) The tennis rules idea was mainly a desire to see if I could play in a different way from the previous two series, where playing the maps until I got 25K points in every single one of them was the aim. That made for a LOT of playing, as some of the maps required multiple attempts to achieve success (the worst came in at thirteen), which ofc meant the average time of playing before I could edit and publish an episode was relatively large compared to this series. So I wanted to play this as a sort of match between me and an imaginary opponent, which meant I could make do with a single playthrough of each map, and as this series will run for well past 600 episodes ... well, streamlining things as much as possible helps. I considered several scoring systems for the "matches", and decided on the tennis system, as that allows for comebacks and turnarounds even if one of the players is trailing significantly at various stages. It needed a bit of tweaking over the first 100 or episodes until I arrived at the current format, which I think I'll stick with. Sure, I could cut the round time even further and give the game an even better chance at beating me, but I do want to be able to spend a little time without stressing too much and still be able to pick up some of the vibe of the area before having to put the pin down. The rounds where I spend 15+ minutes of being lost are far more stressful, though. :D So yeah, wall of text. Glad to hear you enjoy the series, and thank you for letting me know! :)

Not every day you find Namnå on TH-cam! :D

Thank you for tagging along! :) The thought of putting a play-along link in the description has flitted past my mind a few times, it's just that I have yet to remember to include it while editing/posting. I tend to record in batches of two or more weeks worth of episodes at a time, so it's been lost in the process so far. I will see about including links by and by, hopefully before the end of July. Good suggestion! :)

Always good fun to read Icelandic and figure out what actually still means the same in Norwegian and not ... that last round, well I've had a few of those in the past, including one in one of those many tries to get a perfect score in Porsanger. :)

@@stormbrewer3004 very often just add -ur to the end of a Norwegian word, change d:s to ð:s and it's Icelandic :D

@@oh2mp That's scarily accurate. Or just speak like there's a hair on the tip of your tongue.

There will be more of those! :)

Anything that tastes vaguely of success is a victory in Turkey. :)

Given how I fared on the slopes of Bormio, Finland and Tirol (was it?) earlier in the series, I was WELL pleased with that first round here. :D

Suburbs are killers. Especially in Ireland and the UK. All those labyrinthine estates ...