Papascott links to this worldmap on the homepage of AirIndia, wondering if their pilots will know where to go when on their way to European airports. Not too bad a question, I have to say…

But let’s face it, geography, particularly European geography, can be tricky sometimes, as the US edition of the National Geogrpahic found out last November in a poll regarding the geography knowledge of young people from several countries, including Germany and the US. And as this classic image from a geographically usually reliable news source indicates… (I could not find the one where they put Iraq instead of Poland ;))

By the way, I have been a bit quiet for some days, but I have some drafts in preparation.