On my Viking Homelands cruise with Viking Ocean, I visited FIVE new countries!
I’ve never collected countries, just for the sake of collecting, however I do like keeping track of where I’ve been (ah, the memories) and updating my map every time I’ve been somewhere new.
Here’s what the map looks like after this most recent cruise, adding in Finland, Russia, Estonia, Poland, Denmark, and Norway. (I’d already been to Sweden and Germany.)