Introduction:

These many writings, beautiful! 

I encountered them on my travels.

Cyrillic, to be precise, I first came across in school, in Russian-Cyrillic Папа - тракторист, now unfortunately discredited, hence replaced here with Ukrainian-Cyrillic. I first saw it in nature in 1975 at the border crossing Brest. Since then, I've probably traveled to regions where Cyrillic is used over two hundred times, mostly for professional reasons.

Georgian came a few days later, on the train from Moscow to Tbilisi. Two fellow travelers, Georgians, taught me the first letters: i, l, the two t's, and r. In the past few years, I've been more often in Georgia, where now there's no Cyrillic to be seen, but a lot of English signage instead.

I've been trying to at least decipher Arabic since 2009, during my now over twenty trips to Morocco, conveniently alongside French, where it is written bilingually.

I'm currently learning Chinese, initially in pinyin transcription. For a week now, I've also started with Hanzi. On my first trip to Southeast China, starting in December 2025 in Shanghai, accompanied and guided by IT on my smartphone, along with a VPN of course, I managed without it. Just as I did without a travel blog. But that is supposed to change now.