I saw an editorial piece last weekend on The Guardian where the author asked the question: If condoms are OK for Zika, why not Aids, Pope Francis? I thought it's true that the HIV/AIDS infection is rarely mentioned in the news nowadays. There has been huge progress in HIV/AIDS treatments since the time I was a medical student, but the prevalence of HIV (the percentage of a population that is affected by the virus at a given time) is still bad, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa:

Last December I had a slight problem with my ear and unfortunately I wasn't able to fly for a little while. I was glad there was an amazing train system in Europe, so I had an alternative to travel from and to Berlin. Here is a chart with the percentage of train transportation by country in Europe, coming from a dataset published by the European Stats office:

I have been lucky enough to use the trains in all those countries.

Map of Ireland with population by county (including NI as well). Dublin is by far the most populated county.

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