County Count - to finish

Today (Wednesday 22nd June) we went to Lincoln and had a very nice day.  I was thinking that it might well be the first time I had been to Lincolnshire.  While we were travelling, something made me wonder how many counties I had been to and if it would be a nice little challenge to visit them all.  But to be honest I couldn't think of any English counties but Lincolnshire that I hadn't been to!  I thought I would do some research and make a list of times I've visited counties on here.

Turns out... it's not that easy to get a list of counties.  I found this article from the BBC: 'The baffling map of England's counties' and apparently you can talk about historic counties, ceremonial counties and administrative counties.  According to wikipedia there are 83 metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties in England and 48 ceremonial counties and 48 postal counties.  I feel temped just to talk about cricket counties! I was going to do counties in the whole of the UK, but that now sounds rather daunting, although I think from my research that counties may be a little less confusing in the rest of the UK.  I have definitely not been to many of the Welsh, Scottish or Irish counties.  I think maybe I'll just make my own list of counties that I like the names of...

It's now (Monday 27th June) getting a little close to when we are off travelling again and I have quite of list of blog posts I want to try to write so I'm going to leave this post now and hopefully come back to it with the list in later days. 😀