Last year my partner and I spent nearly a year travelling Europe and living in France. We spent close to six months living in Paris, two months in Antibes in La Cote D’Azur and month in a beautiful Annecy in the Alps. The rest of the time we spent travelling. Below is some numbers that I accidentally collected over the year, they paint an interesting picture of our year away and speak for themselves:

Hours of French Classes: 360 over 3 months
Days of travel: 331
New Friends on Facebook: 96 [1]
Films watched: 69 via Letterboxd
Books read: 40 books totaling 14,981 pages (375pg/ book) via Goodreads
Cities visited: 39
Flights taken: 24
Oktoberfest Steins: 21 [2]
Countries visited: 14 [3]
Days Snowboarding: 10
Days Sailing: 7
Personal lifting records: 5 [4]
Gyms: 4
Powerlifting Meets: 4
Marriage Proposals: 1

Things I’m glad I didn’t count

Bottles of wine
Mojitos at Escalle
Bottles of French beer (they’re all terrible)
Afternoons by the river seine

I’m using this as a proxy for the number of people I made friends with, even if only temporary. These days I wonder how good a measure this is to the number of people you meet, it is certainly close. This is the number of people that were added during the year, as opposed to the net gain which would be a lot less since due to regular culling back ↩
3 + 6 + 3 + 9 - It’s generally advisable to only drink crazy amounts every 2nd day. ↩
Countries and (number of cities): France (16), Italy (2), Monaco (1), Spain (3), Belgium (3), England (2), Switzerland (3) Germany (3), Hong Kong (1), Macau (1), Lichtenstein (1), Greece (1), Serbia (1) & Montenegro (1) ↩
Bench Press: 110kg & 115kg. Deadlift: 235kg & 240kg. Total:520kg ↩