HAPPY New Year to you all, especially the lovely readers who have called by at my website paulcoletravels.com in the past 12 months. It’s been great to meet you – thank you for your valuable time.

I note that the site has now been read in 183 different countries across the globe since I posted my first words back in the depths of the October 2020 pandemic lockdown.

So here’s a delightful video that marries my love of writing with memories of good, old-fashioned journalism and memorable movie magic up on the big screen. Enjoy!

It’s The Typewriter (Supercut) from Ariel Avissar on Vimeo. Thanks to fellow blogger Brian D Butler for bringing it to my attention in his always excellent daily Travel Between The Pages blog.

That typewriter pictured at the top of this post was the first machine I used as an apprentice reporter on the Stockport Express 50 years ago next week, passed on to me by good friend and feature writer Iain Meekley!

Here are the countries you’ve been visiting me from:

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Anguilla, Angola, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan

Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Belgium, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Bulgaria

Cambodia, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia

Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic

Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, England, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini, Ethiopia, 

Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia

Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guyana

Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary

Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast

Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan

Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan

Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg

Macedonia, Macao, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar

Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Northern Ireland, Norway

Oman

Pakistan, Palau, Palestinian Territories, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico

Qatar

Reunion, Romania, Russia, Rwanda

Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Martin, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria

Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan

Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, US Virgin Islands, Uruguay, Uzbekistan

Wales

Venezuela, Vietnam

Yemen

Zambia, Zimbabwe