Adding 3 Destinations to Our Travelers’ Century Club List

We recently returned from a 12-Day Mediterranean Rivieras Explorer Cruise on Holland America’s ms Prinsendam.

This cruise itinerary allowed us to visit three destinations on the Travelers’ Century Club List of 329 where we had not previously traveled: Ceuta, Spain (listed as Spanish Morocco); Alghero, Sardinia; and Ajaccio, Corsica.

Ceuta, Spain

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Ceuta is a Spanish city that’s located on the north coast of Africa.

An enclave, Ceutu shares a four-mile land border with Morocco but is separated nine miles from mainland Spain by the Strait of Gibraltar.

On a corner of Kings Square in Ceuta there’s an extraordinary example of eclectic architecture: the Casa de los Dragones or House of the Dragons. Designed by Valencian architect José M. Cortina Pérez, the distinctive building with four bronze dragons was completed in 1905.

Sardinia, Italy

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Covering 9,301 square miles, Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. One of Italy’s 20 regions, the island of Sardinia lies 120 miles west Italy’s mainland and only 7.5 miles south of the French island of Corsica.

Corsica, France

Corsica is the fourth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Although it is located closer to the Italian mainland and Sardinia, Corsica has been a part of France since 1768.

Ajaccio, the capital city of Corsica, is best known as the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1769.

Travelers’ Century Club List of Destinations

The Travelers’ Century Club (also known as the TCC) is a club for people who have visited 100 or more of the world’s countries and territories. Founded in 1954, the club has regional chapters throughout the U.S. and several locations around the world.

The TCC list of 329 destinations includes sovereign states as well as certain territories, exclaves and island groups. While we have previously visited Spain, Morocco, France and Italy, we had not visited the islands of Corsica and Sardinia, nor had we visited Ceuta, a part of Spain that is located on the north coast of Africa.

Anyone who has visited 100 or more of the places on the list is eligible to join the TCC. Travelers who have visited 50 or more of the list places can become provisional members. I became a member in 2015, and Mr. Jones joined in 2019. With our recent cruise, we added 3 more destinations to our “country” list, bringing my total count to 113, and increasing Mr. Jones’ count to 110.

In case you are interested in what The Travelers’ Century Club counts as a destination on the list, see below. We have also noted in BOLD those destinations that we have visited, and in red our three most recent additions.

The Travelers’ Century Club List of 329 Destinations

PACIFIC OCEAN (39)

• Austral Islands
• Australia 
• Bismark Archipelago (New Ireland, New Britain, Bougainville, Admiralty Islands)
• Chatham Islands
• Cook Islands (Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Penrhyn)
• Easter Island
• Fiji Islands
• French Polynesia (Tahiti, Tuamotu, Austral, Gambier)
• Galapagos Islands
• Guam
• Hawaiian Islands
• Juan Fernandez Islands (Robinson Crusoe Is.)
• Kiribati (Gilberts, Tarawa, Ocean Island)
• Line/Phoenix Islands (Palmyra, Fanning, Christmas, Canton, Enderbury, Howland)
• Lord Howe Island
• Marquesas Islands
• Marshall Islands, Rep. of (Majuro, Kwajalein, Eniwetok)
• Micronesia, Fed. States of (Pohnpei, Kosrae, Chuuk,Yap, Caroline Islands)
• Midway Island
• Nauru
• New Caledonia & Deps. (Noumea, Loyalty Islands)
• New Zealand
• Niue
• Norfolk Island
• Northern Marianas (Saipan, Tinian)
• Ogasawara (Bonin, Volcano Island, Iwo Jima)
• Palau, Republic of
• Papua New Guinea
• Pitcairn Island
• Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa)
• Samoa, American (Pago Pago)\ Samoa, Western (Apia)
• Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Tulagi)
• Tasmania
• Tokelau Islands (Fakaofu, Atafu, Union)
• Tonga (Nukualofa)
• Tuvalu (Ellice Island, Funafuti, Vaitapu)
• Vanuatu (New Hebrides Islands)
• Wake Island
• Wallis & Futuna Islands

NORTH AMERICA (6)

• Alaska
• Canada
• Mexico
• Prince Edward Island 
• St. Pierre & Miquelon
• United States (continental)  (Mrs. Jones has visited all 50 U.S. States)

CENTRAL AMERICA (7)

• Belize (British Honduras)
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Panama

SOUTH AMERICA (14)

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Chile
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana (British Guiana)
• Nueva Esparta (Margarita Island)
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Surinam (Netherlands Guiana)
• Uruguay
• Venezuela

CARIBBEAN (30)

• Anguilla
• Antigua & Deps. (Barbuda, Redonda)
• Aruba
• Bahamas
• Barbados
• Bonaire
• Cayman Islands
• Cuba (Mrs. Jones only)
• Curacao
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic
• Grenada & Deps. (Carriacou, Grenadines)
• Guadeloupe & Deps. (Marie Galante)
• Haiti
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands, French (St. Martin)
• Leeward Islands, Netherlands (Saba, St. Eustatius)
• Martinique
• Montserrat
• Puerto Rico
• St. Barts
• San Andres & Providencia
• St. Kitts & Nevis
• St. Lucia
• St. Maarten (formerly Netherlands Antilles)
• St. Vincent & Deps. (Bequia, Canouan, Grenadines)
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Turks & Caicos Islands
• Virgin Islands, U.S. (St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas)
• Virgin Islands, British (Tortola, etc.)

ATLANTIC OCEAN (14)

• Ascension
• Azores Islands
• Bermuda
• Canary Islands
• Cape Verde Islands
• Falkland Islands
• Fernando do Noronha
• Faroe Islands
• Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat)
• Iceland
• Madeira
• South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands
• St. Helena
• Tristan da Cunha

EUROPE & THE MEDITERRANEAN (68)

• Aland Islands (Mariehamn) (Mr. Jones only)
• Albania
• Andorra
• Austria
• Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Minorca)
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Bulgaria
• Corsica
• Crete
• Croatia
• Cyprus, British Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri & Dhekelia
• Cyprus, Republic
• Cyprus, Turkish Fed. State
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• England
• Estonia
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Gibraltar
• Greece
• Greek Aegean Islands (Cyclades, Dodecanese, Northern Aegean Islands)
• Guernsey & Deps (Alderney, Herm, Sark, Channel Islands)
• Hungary
• Ionian Islands (Corfu, etc.)
• Ireland (Eire)
• Ireland, Northern (Ulster)
• Isle of Man
• Italy
• Jersey (Channel Islands)
• Kaliningrad
• Kosovo
• Lampedusa
• Latvia
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Macedonia
• Malta
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Montenegro
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Russia
• San Marino
• Sardinia
• Scotland
• Serbia
• Sicily
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Spitsbergen (Svalbard, Bear Island)
• Srpska
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Trans Dniester
• Turkey in Europe (Istanbul)
• Ukraine
• Vatican City
• Wales

ANTARCTICA (7)

• Argentine (Palmer Peninsula)
• Australian Antarctic Territory South Pole (Mawson, Davis, Macquarie, Heard)
• Chilean (Palmer Peninsula)
• British Antarctica (Graham Land, South Shetland, South Orkney)
• French Southern & Antarctic Territory (Kerguelen, Crozet, Amsterdam, St. Paul)
• Norwegian (Queen Maud Land, Bouvet)
• New Zealand (Ross Dependency)

AFRICA (55)

• Algeria
• Angola (Port. West Africa)
• Benin (Dahomey)
• Botswana (Bechuanaland)
• Burkina Faso (Upper Volta)
• Burundi (Urundi)
• Cabinda
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo (Brazzaville)
• Congo (Kinshasa-Zaire)
• Djibouti (French Somaliland, Affars & Issas)
• Egypt in Africa
• Equatorial Guinea (Bioko, Fernando Poo)
• Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni)
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana (Gold Coast, British Togoland)
• Guinea (French Guinea)
• Guinea-Bissau (Port. Guinea)
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Lesotho (Basutoland)
• Liberia
• Libya
• Malawi (Nyasaland)
• Mali (French Soudan)
• Mauritania
• Morocco
• Morocco, Spanish (Ceuta, Melilla) {Spanish Territory}
• Mozambique (Port. East Africa)
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Rwanda (Ruanda)
• Sao Tome & Principe
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia (Italian Somaliland)
• Somaliland (British)
• South Africa
• Sudan, North
• Sudan, South
• Swaziland
• Tanzania (Tanganyika)
• Togo
• Tunisia
• Uganda
• Western Sahara (Spanish Sahara)
• Zambia (No. Rhodesia)
• Zanzibar
• Zimbabwe (So. Rhodesia)

MIDDLE EAST (21)

• Abu Dhabi
• Ajman
• Bahrain
• Dubai
• Egypt in Asia (Sinai Peninsula)
• Fujeirah
• Iran
• Iraq
• Israel
• Jordan
• Kuwait
• Lebanon
• Oman
• Palestine
• Qatar
• Ras Al Khaimah
• Saudi Arabia
• Sharjah
• Syria
• Umm Al Qaiwain
• Yemen

INDIAN OCEAN (15)

• Andaman-Nicobar Islands
• British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Archipelago, Diego Garcia)
• Christmas Island
• Cocos Islands (Keeling)
• Comoro Islands (Anjouan, Moheli, Grand Comoro)
• Lakshadweep
• Malagasy Republic (Madagascar)
• Maldive Islands
• Mauritius & Dependencies (Agalega, St. Brandon)
• Mayotte (Dzaoudzi)
• Reunion
• Rodrigues Island
• Seychelles
• Socotra
• Zil Elwannyen Sesel (Aldabra, Farquhar, Amirante Islands)

ASIA (51)

• Abkhazia
• Afghanistan
• Armenia (Yerevan)
• Azerbaijan (Baku)
• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Brunei
• Cambodia
• China, People’s Republic
• Georgia
• Hainan Island
• Hong Kong
• India
• Indonesia (Java)
• Irian Jaya (Dutch New Guinea)
• Japan 
• Jeju Island (South Korea)
• Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo)
• Kashmir
• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Korea, North
• Korea, South
• Laos
• Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Indonesia)
• Macau
• Malaysia
• Moluka (Moluccas, Indonesia)
• Mongolia, Republic (Mrs. Jones only)
• Myanmar (Burma)
• Nakhichevan
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• Philippines
• Sabah (North Borneo)
• Sarawak
• Siberia (Russia in Asia)
• Sikkim
• Singapore
• South Ossetia
• Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
• Sulawesi (Celebes, Indonesia) (Mrs. Jones only)
• Sumatra (Indonesia) (Mrs. Jones only)
• Taiwan, R.O.C.
• Tajikistan
• Thailand
• Tibet
• Timor Leste
• Turkey in Asia (Anatolia, Ankara, Izmir)
• Turkmenistan
• Uzbekistan
• Vietnam

How many destinations on this list have you visited? Where will you visit next?

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