Following my enigmatically titled entry Country 74: Eritrea, I suspect you may have been wondering, well what happened to the first 73 countries... Well, here's where you'll find out.
No. 1: What can I say?
The most successful country in the history of Eurovision with 6 wins and 14 second place finishes. Home to Stonehenge. To anyone thinking of visiting, please understand that the rest of the country is nothing like London and you cannot say you have visited the UK until you have left the city and seen something of anywhere else. In terms of where else you should go, well anywhere will be great! Whether you restrict it to the home counties and Oxford, Cambridge and Brighton, Canterbury, Peterborough or Lewes, or really stretch your legs and try some of the other metropolitan centres such as Newcastle, Glasgow or Manchester. For countryside, try Wales, Northern Ireland, the Highlands or Lake District.
Thinking of the Highlands reminds me of Election 1997, when I was up in Inverness, campaigning with the Labour candidate who was tussling in a four way tie. I knocked on the door of a house overlooking Loch Ness, and a lady answered who promised to vote Labour because in her 72 years of living in that house, no one had ever bothered to ask her to vote for them before! David Stewart went on to win the vote by a narrow margin and now represents the area in the Scottish Parliament.
The most successful country in the history of Eurovision with 6 wins and 14 second place finishes. Home to Stonehenge. To anyone thinking of visiting, please understand that the rest of the country is nothing like London and you cannot say you have visited the UK until you have left the city and seen something of anywhere else. In terms of where else you should go, well anywhere will be great! Whether you restrict it to the home counties and Oxford, Cambridge and Brighton, Canterbury, Peterborough or Lewes, or really stretch your legs and try some of the other metropolitan centres such as Newcastle, Glasgow or Manchester. For countryside, try Wales, Northern Ireland, the Highlands or Lake District.
Thinking of the Highlands reminds me of Election 1997, when I was up in Inverness, campaigning with the Labour candidate who was tussling in a four way tie. I knocked on the door of a house overlooking Loch Ness, and a lady answered who promised to vote Labour because in her 72 years of living in that house, no one had ever bothered to ask her to vote for them before! David Stewart went on to win the vote by a narrow margin and now represents the area in the Scottish Parliament.
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