This little entry is by way of a THANK YOU to a friend that I met in San Martin de Los Andes. I only know him as Paz and as I say we met in the Chocolate Kingdom of the Chilean Lake District.

The World Flag T-Shirt

Paz has been involved in a project to develop what has become known as 'The World Flag'. A piece of work which has been on display at UN conferences. Although the UN only recognises 192 countries, the emblem features 216 flags of countries from around the world - nobody has been left out.

When I met Paz he quite liked the 1smallworld idea and thought it tied in quite nicely with the worldflag theme, so he made me a very kind gift of the T-shirt you can see in the picture. At the time it was the 'Prototype' of an item yet to go ito production. One of a kind and i've worn it with pride ever since (almost time it went in the laundry, but you know us traveller types - should get another couple of weeks out of it yet :-))

So, THANKS PAZ. Its drawn positive comments and admiration on several occasions. And, i've just checked the worldflag website (www.theworldflag.org ) and it looks like its now gone into production if anyone wants one (there goes my unique status!)