100 Things I Saw in 2024
- willustrating
- Jan 3
- 3 min read
My newly born nephew Henry
The Eiffel Tower
All the Twilight films
The Adriatic Sea
A Shrek themed burlesque show
A dozen or so naked old men on a nudist beach
One of the oldest olive trees in the world
The windmill of the Moulin Rouge
A statue commemorating the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip
The River Ness
A McDonald’s in Croatia
Fruška Gora National Park
A sad crocodile
At least three kangaroos
An assortment of tropical birds
A leopard
A porcupine
A gang of lemurs
The Danube River
A statue of Ronald Reagan in Budapest
A statue of George H W Bush, also in Budapest
A statue of Columbo, in, you guessed it, Budapest
A pigeon sitting in a dogs’ bowl in Ljubljana
Blossom trees in Rouen
The Genex Tower in Belgrade
A bagpiper playing Auld Lang Syne in Edinburgh
A man falling off his motorbike in Prague
An otter in the Vltava River
Winchester Cathedral
Durham Cathedral
Rouen Cathedral
The Notre Dame
A minor basilica in Subotica
The Seine
A giant chess set in Frankfurt
A giant chess set in Rotterdam
A dozen birds fighting a dozen cats, with no clear winner
A rainbow in Novi Sad
A pigeon with one leg
A seesaw
Several tiny crabs
A homeless dog running into the sea to cool down
A kitten sleeping in a plant pot
The Slovenian Olympic team
The coaches for the British Olympic Badminton Paralympic team
The hometown of Hitler
A celebrity getting papped at Nikola Tesla Airport
The Scottish Parliament building
The Serbian Assembly building
The Montenegrin Assembly building
The Slovenian Parliament building
The Slovakian Presidential Palace
The Hungarian Parliament building
A nightclub ass-shaking contest
Fenwick’s Christmas window
A very very fluffy dog
The Buttplug Gnome
Two rabbits
Several goats
The Cube Houses in Rotterdam
The Bear in its entirety
Two bears
A robin
A shop that sold only rubber ducks
A drunk women getting into and subsequently falling out of a shopping trolley
A naked man who while lying down lifted his leg and slapped his own ass
The World’s Strongest Man
A car boot filled with watermelons
A handful of nuns
A sleeping pigeon
My favourite magazine shop burning down
A Hungarian Prison Service branded rubik’s cube
A tiny bird eating corn on the cob
Lake Skadar
A shrine to Lemmy in Serbia
A shrine to Navalny in Edinburgh
A squirrel digging for his winter nuts
Rumija Mountain
The Dinaric Alps
The Edinburgh Botanic Gardens
The oldest second-hand bookshop in Scotland
A sculpture of a bear with wings
An open Woolworths
One of the worst sounding buskers I’ve ever heard
The inside of a cat cafe and multiple cats
A one person public bench
The inside of our cabin, aboard a sleeper train from Bar to Belgrade
The stars above me while I floated in the Adriatic Sea after midnight
Snow
A Turkish ice cream man tricking people into grabbing cones
A ferris wheel
A sculpture of a dog peeing on a bollard
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Foul on a laptop in Inverness
A helter skelter
A haunted wooden man
A no smoking sign beside an ash tray
Liberty Bridge in Novi Sad
Three stray dogs just chilling out as bros
A motorcycle atop a pole
A car hanging out of a building in Rotterdam
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