Ramblin’ Man
I was walking back home, and Lemon Jelly’s Ramblin’ Man came on. If you’ve not heard it, it starts with what sounds like an interview, and transitions into just … nice-sounding place names. I idly wondered - given I’ve been priveleged enough to travel a fair bit, how many of these have I been to?
Well. Let’s find out.
As of Feburary 2025:
| Place name | Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Paris | Yes | Most recently at the end of 2023. |
| Xizang (Tibet) | No | |
| Sydney NSW | Yes | Heaps of times. Also the first Australian city I’d lived in. |
| Naxos | No | |
| Rangoon | Yes | It’s “Yangon” now. Crazy place. I was lucky enough to go there before it all went to shit. |
| Rotterdam | No | |
| Runcton | No | |
| The Cayman Islands | No | |
| Malawi | No | |
| Mauritius | No | But I love the food. |
| Haight-Ashbury | Yes | In passing |
| Patagonia | No | |
| Kingston | No | Not the one they probably mean, anyway. |
| Kentish Town | Yes | In passing |
| Codrington | No | |
| Ko Samui | No | |
| Felixstowe | No | |
| Fingringhoe | No | |
| Valmorel | No | |
| North Pole | No | |
| Brixton | Yes | |
| Antwerpen | No | |
| Gujarat | No | |
| Prawle | No | |
| Uganda | No | |
| Shenington | No | |
| Sudbury | No | Not the one they mean. Seems to be heaps of English towns in this list… |
| Sri Lanka | No | Love the food though. |
| Ecuador | No | |
| Edinburgh | No | I know I know… |
| Stockholm | No | Was going to happen, but then the world got sick and took a couple of years off. |
| Abu Dhabi | No | |
| Lexington | No | None of them, as far as I remember. |
| Lindos | No | |
| Tokyo | Yes | And going back in 2025 |
| Harlem | Yes | Long time ago. |
| Ipanema | No | |
| Nicosia | No | |
| Granada | No | |
| San Jose | Yes? | If they mean the one in California |
| Damascus | No | But the word sounds so cool. |
| Mandalay | No | We went to Shan State instead. |
| San Francisco | Yes | |
| Atlantis | No | Given it’s a “lost city” I don’t think I’ll be able to make it. |
| Adelaide | Yes | Annually, for Womadelaide! |
| Angmering | No | |
| Arumpo | No | |
| Amsterdam | Yes | |
| New York | Yes | |
| Kabul | No | |
| Rwanda | No | |
| Kyoto | Yes | |
| Manchester | No | |
| Prague | No | |
| Toronto | Yes | Yawn |
| Madrid | No | |
| Melbourne | Yes | I live here now… |
| Dublin | No | |
| Dakar | No | |
| Boston | Yes | I had the best hamburger of my life there, about 30 years ago. I still remember it. |
| Oslo | No | See Stockholm |
| Tooting | No | Tee hee |
| Belfast | No | |
| Botswana | No | |
| Tonga | No | |
| Rayburn | No |
(With thanks to the Ramblin’ Map)