When I was a kid my parents lived in the Gambia. A Marxist group attempted a coup and said they would shoot all the white people they found. My parents had a half hour warning to get in the car and go. My mum, another woman, me, my brother and the other woman's four girls were crammed into a car and we high tailed it through the bush to the Senegal border.
The revolutionaries used the President's absence from the country to attempt the coup. The President was at the wedding of Charles and Di. My refugee story is also my 'do you remember the Charles and Diana wedding' story as well.
If any two out of the USA, Italy, Holland, Ireland, Czechia, Norway, Greece, Turkey, Slova, Slovakia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Slovenja, Azerbaijan, Luxembourg, Malta or even San Marino could have got off their bums and qualified I'd have visited half the finalists.
Group A: Uruguay
Group B: Portugal, Spain
Group C: France
Group D: Argentina (three times as a tourist before I lived here)
Group E: None*
Group F: Germany, Mexico
Group G: England (three times as a tourist since moving to Argentina), No others*
Group H: None
*Some of you lot would count Brazil and Belgium as well. I have changed planes a few times in Brazil and have been across the border at Cataratas del Iguazú twice, both times for about five hours. I do not count this as having been to Brazil. Similarly, I have driven through Belgium and got off a school coach at a motorway stop to buy Belgian chocolates before getting back on it half an hour later. This does not mean I have visited Belgium.
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