Guten Tag, meine Freunde!

I've been looking at the stats for this blog.  I've already talked a bit about searches, but I was wondering where my readers are.  My goal is to someday meet every single one of you.  All six. :)

Not surprisingly, about 3/4 are from the good ol' U S and A, as Pogo called it.  The UK is second, followed by Canada.  Recent stats show Canada is catching up to the United Kingdom.  I generally have about half as many Australian readers as Canadians.

Well, duh.  English-reading people read my English-written blog.

But the number four country, consistently ahead of Australia, is Germany!  German is the only language, other than English, that I speak more than a few words of.  Like most Americans, foreign languages are, um, foreign to me.

What do you call someone who speaks two languages?  Bilingual
What do you call someone who speaks three languages?  Trilingual
What do you call someone who speaks one  language?  American.

(insert rimshot here)

The top ten all-time continues with The Netherlands, which is a surprise.  Italy, France, and Spain come next.  Then a non-English, non-European country: Columbia!

Someday, when life pauses, I'm going to get complete stats and figure out where I have the most readers, per capita.

My more recent stats have a couple of other surprises.  In the last week, I had a dozen or so hits from Belize and twice that from Greece.  Yesterday, Ireland and Qatar (!) and Sweden made the top ten.

And now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go find out where Belize is.

(ps: I still don't know exactly where it is, but the first image result for Belize led me here. I need to book a flight.)

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