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Way back when, I started keeping track on a map of whereabouts in London I'd cycled. There's probably apps for this nowadays, but when I started this, smartphones didn't yet exist (as far as most people are concerned). When I moved to Berlin, I started doing the same for that city. There were probably apps for this, but I didn't have a smartphone until a few months ago, so I continued drawing lines on a (digital) map the way I had for London.

After approaching four years, I suddenly realised, with an inner wail of despair, that I should have been doing this in a layered image, so that I could turn my exploration of Berlin into an animation. Now of course it was too late, and Berlin was already quite explored, and I had few earlier versions of my map graphic left.

But then, when I realised I would be moving shortly to southwest Berlin, and there would be a whole new wave of exploration, I decided to start using image layers anyway. And then of course the lockdown happened, and I started going on bike rides to keep myself fit rather than simply cycling the same route to and from work all the time.

So here is the result, as it currently stands. There's quite a lot of new territory covered within the course of this year, and I haven't even made my flat move yet! (I will continue updating this graphic as I cover new territory.)

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