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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Japan on high alert for 'huge' second quake after issuing tsunami warning

MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Here is a crazy fact I discovered last week: Bristol is the 8th most expensive city in the to build in 🤯 According to the Arcadis International Construction Costs Index (2024–2025 data) our city construction costs are insane…

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I finished recording a my first video on the 2026 pre-release. The purpose of this video is to discussed different alternatives for this year's pre-release 9 marker and provide my students with advice on how to tackle the question - www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g_s...

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AQA Geography GCSE Paper 3 - Pre release 2026 (Possible 9 Mark Questions)

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Here is a YouTube video on how to plan a Level 3 - 9 mark answer for this year's pre-release on the proposed reservoir in Lincolnshire. Obviously, this is all hypothetical as we do not know the question but I hope you find it useful - www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPIY...

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AQA Geography GCSE Paper 3 - Pre-release 2026 (9 Marker - Level 3 Answer)

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This week’s flag: France 🇫🇷 My homeland has been in the news for sporting reasons as it successfully retained its title in the Six Nations Championship, after a dramatic last-minute win against England this weekend 🏉 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/1RLWf...

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France

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This week’s flag: Nigeria 🇳🇬 The country is Africa’s most populated country and home to its largest city, Lagos 🌍 Lagos is one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, with around 77 new residents arriving every hour 📈 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/AjfUp...

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Nigeria 🇳🇬

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

This week’s flag: the United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 After rising tensions in the Middle East disrupted one of the world’s most important transport and trade hubs 🌍 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/_lLoC...

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The UAE 🇦🇪

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

This week’s flag: Madagascar 🇲🇬 The country has been hit by Cyclone Gezani, causing 35 deaths and displacing over 250,000 people 🌪️The cyclone also affected neighbouring Mozambique, bringing heavy rain, flooding and widespread disruption 🌊 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/Av_TE...

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Madagascar 🇲🇬

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I’ve just spent a week in the Lake District with my family who very kindly agreed to work unpaid as my film crew so I was able to visit Cockermouth and film a mini-documentary exploring the causes, impacts and responses to the floods for my students m.youtube.com/watch?featur...

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Why was the Cockermouth flood in 2009 so devastating?

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This week’s flag: The United Kingdom 🇬🇧 The UK has lost its measles-free status, according to the World Health Organization, and is now experiencing a measles outbreak ⚠️(/1) youtube.com/shorts/8Jsjj...

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The UK 🇬🇧

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This week’s flag: The Olympic movement, with Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo in northern Italy set to host the Winter Olympic Games 🇮🇹 From a geography perspective, major international sporting events are powerful tools of soft power 🌍 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/BCZPf...

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Olympics ⛷️

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

This week’s flag: Denmark 🇩🇰 The country has been in the news due to renewed attention on Greenland, which is a territory that is part of the Danish kingdom but is highly autonomous 🇬🇱 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/SURgu...

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Denmark 🇩🇰

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This week’s flag: Tanzania 🇹🇿 I’m delighted to be leading a student expedition to this sub-saharan country in 2027 with True Adventure 🏕️ (/1) youtube.com/shorts/qztFI...

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Making my Year 12s carry out secondary research in class today confirmed the fact the internet has moved away from a world of questioning and critical thinking and into a world of direct answers... This was recently discussed in Amol Rajan's Radical podcast 🎤

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

This week’s flag: European Union 🇪🇺 The EU has just agreed its largest-ever trade deal with South America’s Mercosur, aiming to reduce tariffs and trade barriers between the two major economic blocs 🤝 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/ngwrz...

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European Union 🇪🇺

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

This Week's Flag: Venezuela 🇻🇪 The country has been in the news following a US-led operation targeting President Nicolás Maduro 🇺🇸 The situation in and around Caracas has drawn worldwide attention and sparked intense international debate 👀 (/1) youtu.be/wwYGSweL9xI?...

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Venezuela 🇻🇪

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

This Week's Flag: Venice 🇮🇹 New research from the University of Cambridge suggests that volcanic eruptions may have helped trigger the arrival of the Black Death in Europe 🌋 (/1) youtu.be/uwXerMjV_fo?...

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Venice 🇮🇹

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

This Week's Flag: Ethiopia 🇪🇹 This weekthe country has been in the news after a volcanic eruption 🌋 It’s a historic moment — the volcano hasn’t erupted since the last Ice Age, 12,000 years ago ❄️(/1) youtube.com/shorts/kODLn...

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Ethiopia 🇪🇹

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

This week’s flag: Indonesia 🇮🇩 The country has been making headlines for two very different reasons ✨ Jakarta is now the world’s largest city, officially overtaking Tokyo 🇯🇵 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/uBtKj...

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Indonesia 🇮🇩

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

This week’s flag: Brazil 🇧🇷 COP30 is currently taking place in Belem and is the 30th annual Conference of the Parties, where countries meet with the UN to discuss how we can mitigate, adapt, and manage the financial impacts of climate change 🌎(/1) youtube.com/shorts/T73NX...

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Brazil 🇧🇷

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

This week’s flag: Iran 🇮🇷 The Persian country is currently experiencing a devastating drought due to a lack of rainfall 🏜️ Reservoirs supplying Tehran are less than 10%, which means that the country’s capital city is at risk of having to be evacuated 🏙 youtube.com/shorts/Mp7vX...

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Iran 🇮🇷

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

This week’s flag: Jamaica 🇯🇲 During half-term, the country was hit by Hurricane Melissa 🌀 The Category 5 storm intensified over the Caribbean Sea to become to joint strongest in the Atlantic Ocean’s history 🌎 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/7Jh8B...

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Jamaica 🇯🇲

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

This week’s flag: Hawaï 🇺🇸 The USA’s smallest state is home to the world’s most active volano - Mt Kilauea 🌋Last weekend, the volcano erupted for the 36th time since December 2024, which means it has done so once a week since the end of last year 📆 youtube.com/shorts/LR7oa...

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Hawaï 🏄‍♂️

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

This week's flag: the Philippines 🇵🇭 The East Asian country has been in the news recently after suffering from a series of natural hazards 📰 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/nOGk2...

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Philippines 🇵🇭

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Two years ago, I was approached by @geogmum.bsky.social and @jennnnnn.bsky.social about a book on teaching geography in the 21st century 🌍 They asked me if I wanted to write a chapter on how to teach geographical skills in secondary school 📝

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

This week’s flag: Taiwan 🇹🇼 The country was hit by Typhoon Ragasa, which officially was the strongest tropical storm of the year 🌀 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/0N1Bv...

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Taiwan 🇹🇼

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

This week’s flag: Morocco 🇲🇦 This week, the country became the 60th country to sign the UN’s High Seas Treaty 🌊 Three years ago, countries agreed to turn 30% of the world’s oceans into Marine Protected Areas 💙 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/kCmu9...

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Morocco 🇲🇦

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

This week's flag: Ethiopia 🇪🇹 The largest country in the Horn of Africa has made the news after inaugurating the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) 🚧 (/1) youtu.be/W2WrXi6_QV8?...

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Ethiopia 🇪🇹

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

This week’s flag: Malaysia 🇲🇾 Later this week, Mr Leigh and I will be heading on expedition with a group of Year 12 students in Borneo 🌴 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/lv1Zt...

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Malaysia 🇲🇾

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Just taught my last full 5 lesson teaching day of the academic year 🎉

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

This week’s flag: Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 In an attempt to reduce waste and methane emissions, our Northern neighbour is banning landfill from 31 December 2025 onwards 🚮 (/1 ) youtube.com/shorts/5as_r...

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Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

This week’s flag: Brazil 🇧🇷 The South American country has made the news after cutting down 8 miles of road in the Amazon rainforest as it preparesto host COP30 this winter 🌴 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/LY1yp...

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Brazil 🇧🇷

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

This week’s flag: Nigeria 🇳🇬 Africa’s most populated country is still coming to terms with devastating flash floods that destroyed the town of Mokwa and killed 200 people with 500 still missing 🚑 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/FPK25...

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Nigeria 🇳🇬

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

This week’s flag: Switzerland 🇨🇭 The Alpine country made the news on 28th May when parts of a glacier collapsed near the village of Blatten 🏔️ In total, 9 million cubic meters of ice and rocks destroyed and buried 90% of the village 🏚️ (/1) youtube.com/shorts/D0pwq...

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Switzerland 🇨🇭

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

An outrageously silly @badgeographyjoke to make you smile today. You might’ve realized that as a geographer I shamelessly label geology material as bad geography jokes. Sorry dear geologists…

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

'the white British share of the population – defined as people who do not have an immigrant parent' 😂😂 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...

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White British people will be a minority in 40 years, report claims

Shifting ethnic dynamic of the UK driven by immigration predicted to cause dramatic changes

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This week’s flag: the European Union 🇪🇺 This week, the UK and the EU signed a new trade deal in an attempt to reset relations after Brexit 🇬🇧 If Eurovision has taught us one thing it is that the UK’s public rating in Europe are at an all time low 🎶 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/MNbBG...

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European Union

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

This week’s flag: Türkiye 🇹🇷 After 40 years of insurgency, a kurdish separatist organisation called the PKK has decided to lay down its arms and disband 🕊️ (/1) youtube.com/shorts/f-vuO...

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Türkiye 🇹🇷

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

What a manic day 🤯 This morning I waved goodbye to my lovely Year 11 mentor group who I met back in 2020 amidst a pandemic, I uploaded all the NEA paperwork to the LWT, and spent most of my "free" time ironing out final details before our departure to Naples this evening...

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This week's flag: Italy 🇮🇹 Tonight we are heading to the Bay of Naples for the first ever international geography trip at RGS ✈️ Having already visited the area three times with previous schools, I honestly cannot wait to take you all there 🌍 Andiamo 🗣️ youtube.com/shorts/-uPhk...

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Italy 🇮🇹

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Successful day of data collection on Slapton Sands ⛱️ My group spend the whole day collected rock samples and beach profiles on the bar 🪨 After walking nearly 13km, they found the energy to write up parts of their NEA methodology before dinner 👏

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Today we walked from Start Point to @fscslaptonley along the South West Coastal Path 🏞️ Along our 15km hike, students collected primary data on coastal management strategies in Hallsands, Beesands, Sunnydale, and Torcross 🏖️

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

This week’s flag: China 🇨🇳 A few weeks ago, the Trump administration imposed a 125% tariff on goods arriving from China 💹 In response, the Chinese government reciprocated with a 84% tariff on American imports 💰 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/VK8KG...

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China 🇨🇳

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Successful first day in Slapton with our Year 12s 🏖️ Our first stop was in Totnes where students carried research on the concept of transition towns 🏙️ After arriving, we walked down to Slapton Sands to practice different data collection methods ⛱️ After that we walked home via Slapton Ley ☀️

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Premier League Champions 2024/2025 🏆 I honestly could not have dreamed of a better way for Liverpool to win the league ⚽ Watching the communion between the team and the fans in Anfield after the final whistle was magical 😍 (/1)

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

This week’s flag: Vatican 🇻🇦 The world’s smallest country made the news on Easter Monday due to the death of Pope Francis ⚰️ Although small is size, the Vatican role within the Catholic church means that it has significant soft power within the world 👩‍🎓 youtube.com/shorts/bXuCh...

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Massive shout-out to the Easyjet staff at BristolA Airport this morning 👏 My tired parent brain made a complete mess with our luggage allowance and they were unbelievable at finding a solution 🛅 Totally deserve an employee of the month award 🙏

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MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧 @mrvisgeography.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Just spent 20 minutes waiting for a train connection in Birmingham New Street and the smell of diesel is horrific 😷 My lungs and life expectancy must have taken a beating 🏙️

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