Ciao Readers!

Today I am being totally self-indulgent (like a blog focused on me and my adventures isn’t self-indulgent enough already).  This past week my blog past 10,000 all time views!  How cool is that?!?!  To be fair, “views” do not equate with visitors, let alone different visitors; “views” refers to how many times people click on pages, etc. on my blog – so for instance, if you have clicked through on half of the e-mail notifications you have received to individual posts, then clicked on more pages while you were visiting, you alone may be 100+ of those 10,000 views.  Some people land on my blog totally by accident – interestingly, the most popular search terms that get people here are things having to do with scarves – “why do Italians wear scarves” or “how to wear a scarf like an Italian.”

In addition to being tickled at the number of views (and by the way – THANK YOU ALL!!!), I am really tickled by how far my blog has traveled (way further than I have).  I think it’s cool, so I am sharing with you the country views report, below (fyi WordPress, Puerto Rico is actually a commonwealth).  Thanks for coming along for the ride and please stick around for the next 10,000!

Country	Views
United States	6,912
Italy	1,218
United Kingdom	810
Australia	312
Sri Lanka	145
Canada	93
Germany	89
Spain	69
Denmark	39
New Zealand	31
Japan	28
Singapore	20
India	16
France	12
Belgium	9
Slovenia	8
Philippines	8
Croatia	8
Finland	7
Greece	7
Turkey	7
Switzerland	6
Egypt	6
Serbia	6
Brazil	5
Malaysia	5
Republic of Korea	5
Russian Federation	4
Indonesia	4
Lithuania	4
Mexico	4
Netherlands	3
Bulgaria	3
Portugal	3
Saudi Arabia	3
Czech Republic	3
South Africa	3
Thailand	3
Hungary	2
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2
Austria	2
Sweden	2
Poland	2
Taiwan	2
Ecuador	2
Puerto Rico	2
Pakistan	2
Israel	2
Hong Kong	1
Montenegro	1
United Arab Emirates	1
Lao People’s Democratic Republic	1
Estonia	1
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic	1
Ireland	1
Syrian Arab Republic	1
Mauritius	1
Tunisia	1
Romania	1
Libya	1
Peru	1
Chile	1