About me

Extreme Ironing – a wonderful outdoor sport, here being done in Switzerland, a wonderful small European country

My name is Michael. I was born in Russia and I have lived in Israel for many years. All in all, I’ve lived in 5 different countries, but at least in the geographical sense I have spent most of my life in Asia. In recent years I have been living in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, a small European country (SEC for short). Since I was born nor raised here, I have the advantage of an outsider view on local life and habits.

The town of Kotor in Montenegro, a small European country

This blog is about certain aspects of life in a small European country, which make it different from other small European countries but also different from a large and/or non-European country. I try to identify and explore these aspects, for the enjoyment of my readers and myself.

If you would like to re-publish anything from this blog, you are free to do so under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. In plain language – you can use any text and images I publish here (unless credited otherwise), as long as you do not modify them or get any profit out of their. For commercial and/or modified use of content please contact me using the form below.

I also welcome guest posts to this blog. If you want to contribute by sharing your experiences of travelling or living in a small European country, have ideas on what makes a country big or small, would like to debate the definitions of Europe, want to discuss the differences between small European and non-European countries, your content is welcome at Small European country.

Also, if you enjoy my writing and would like me to write a guest post or a column for your website, have any other writing-related proposals, or would like to comment privately on the contents of this blog, please contact me using the form below:

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