Thanks to reader Helen Jackson for recommending www.passportstamp.com, a cracking site. It should come with a user warning though… it’s highly competitive.

The site lets you plot on a world map every country you’ve visited, which is then shaded in red. It’s the online equivalent of suitcase stickers and its genius lies in its simplicity.

Personally, we don’t believe the world-weary traveller who claims to have ticked off 196 countries, and puts our puny efforts in the shade… but can you beat the Online Travel team? Click on our names to see where Ginny, Steve and Gareth have been.

We love: the html coding that means you can copy a link into your own travel blog; the stats, which show the most popular countries (France is top) and the most smug globetrotters; the inclusion of countries under their former names, e.g. Myanmar nee Burma, and most of Central Asia also listed under USSR; the minimal commercial stuff.

We hate: the lack of red shading on our maps;

Verdict

Design: 5/10
Navigation: 9/10
Content: 6/10
Fulfilment: 8/10

Overall score: 28/40

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