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And with that, Anna’s and my global adventure is off to a delicious start with raspberry mint lemonade and clear skies as our Airbus 320neo climbs out from Landvetter Airport and starts its journey towards the south-east. More than two thousand kilometres at the other end lies Istanbul where we will spend the night next to Taksim Square, trying out the new airport subway link for the first time and seeing how the city has changed in the five years since my last visit, before our 13-hour daytime flight to the Colombian capital tomorrow morning.

For lunch, I ordered the wild seabass while Anna went for the grilled chicken, and Turkish Airlines certainly did not disappoint with either. In our backpacks, we have packed several books, starting with Zoran Nikolić’s Atlas of Unusual Borders. Ever since I was a child, I have been fascinated by maps and geographical oddities, and remembering a scenic drive through the Musandam exclave, I immediately fell for this yellow paperback covering unusual boundaries and territories across the globe. Already tomorrow we will fly above a few, such as Međurječe in Bosnia and the Spanish enclave Lliívia in France on our way to Bogotá.