Numbers

It starts early…learning to count.

Holding up the appropriate fingers, with pride, when asked how old are you?

A few decades pass and there is no desire to discuss that number especially when it takes more than one box of candles for your birthday cake.

We give numbers value.

Good numbers --- locking in the lowest mortgage rate or watching the bathroom scale go down.

And bad numbers ---- total calories in a piece of cheesecake or the amount of taxes to be paid on April 15^th.

Some numbers are just facts – dates, times, etc.

On October 29^th, 2010, just a week after moving to London, this blog was started.

Yesterday, December 18^th, 2010, the stats showed that Observations had reached 1,000 page views and 7 countries.

Is that a YIPPEEEE or not so much?

I have no idea since I am new to this whole world of blogging.

But either way it is fine by me.

Writing about travel, life and predicaments and bringing a camera along to record it all is exactly what I want to be doing.

And to the person(s) in Croatia who found this website. It was a tingly moment to have a reader, from so far away, for whom I had no previous connection.

(Friends and relatives in the other six countries might have received a bit of ‘prompting/pressure’ to click on the link).

So thanks for reading.

Thank you Americans and all you Brits

Kiitos to the Finns

Tak to the Danes

Bedankt to the Dutch

Terima Kasih to the Malaysians and Singaporeans

Hvala to the Croatians

I wish you a lovely holiday season and many great adventures.