v/d Z Reports Balkan Hat Trick

Dear Mr. Secretary,

Just returned from an amazing trip through the Balkan, where I managed to fulfill my personal Balkan hat trick: drank Albanian beer in multiple stoney cities in this mysterious country, enjoyed local Montenegro wine and "Gorska Crna" in Ulcinj and Podgorica, and swallowed a couple of refreshing Pivo Skopje in a heat-wave plagued Macedonia to mitigate temperatures of well over 40 Celsius. Happy to hereby have joined the elite five, and don't forget: 'objects in the mirror are closer than they appear'....

Yours truly,

Bob

v/d Z on the March! Sempliner and Chapman Inch Forward

Mr van der Zwaan rang to announce visits to Albania, Macedonia, and Montenegro in the past two weeks. Details of qualifying acts are forthcoming. v/d Z has now tallied 22 Country Visits since joining three short years ago. Mr Sempliner has moved house and is now resident in Cambodia where he has had "more than a few drinks" in the past week. "More [countries] will follow in short order". Yours truly did some tidying up in his own backyard by visiting nearby Luxembourg this past Sunday by motorcycle and taking a junior sip of a Jupiler.