so last year, 08-09 holidays i spent the summer with an atlas learning the countries of the world. My geography is pretty bad and I thought if I had to waste my time on something perhaps it could be something useful. I also figured there’d be iPhone applications that would help me do it too (not as many as I’d hoped, but anyway).

So this summer I picked up the habit again, I went to Borders for the Boxing day sales and bought myself a full priced atlas with nice clear political maps and things and have been slowly teaching myself the capital cities of Europe… didn’t get too far.

Anyway each day for a week i’ve been testing myself on Traveller IQ and finally I completed the 12th level! So I must be improving… even if i’m only jabbing at countries and hoping I don’t get too many russian cities on the east coast!