BACK in 2022 Sara Turnbull, from Dunfermline, got in touch with the Press after hitting the milestone of visiting every country in Europe.
She was then hoping to get the record of the first Scottish woman to visit every country in the world, and was planning to tick Iraq, Jordan and North Korea off her to go list.
Her globetrotting adventures have been put on hold for now after Sara accepted a new job, she's currently head of English at the SEK International School in Hungary.
Here she tells us how she's given her pupils a taste of Scottish culture - and how well Burns is going down in Budapest.
"If you walked into my fourth grade English classroom on an average school day, you might struggle to comprehend exactly where you are.
"Geographically we are in the leafy Buda hills at SEK International School Budapest, but if you listen closely to the students, they tell a much different story.
"You might hear my students fiercely debating whether Irn Bru tastes like bubble gum or pure liquid gold.
"You might hear someone asking when they can have homemade tablet again or someone screech “wee beastie” at the fly that has infiltrated the classroom.
"Three years ago I introduced a class to Scottish culture through a story of the Loch Ness Monster.
"Since that day their curiosity and interest has grown.
"What began as a single lesson on a mythical Highland creature quickly spiralled into questions about what Scottish people eat, how they dress, and how they speak.
"Over the last three years, we have organically and quite accidentally created a thriving mini-Scottish clan right here in Budapest.
"Those same kids who were wide-eyed about Nessie a few terms ago are now the ones passionately learning Robert Burns poems.
"I was educated at pre-university level in Rosyth and Dunfermline and would state that I had a thoroughly positive educational experience.
"However, being brought up in a small area in the 1990s, I was not really exposed to meeting people from other cultures.
"Once I became a teacher 13 years ago, I vowed to change this for my own students in Hungary.
"To make this happen, I found ways of incorporating Scotland into the curriculum with food tasting parties, ceilidhs, biography research projects and much more.
"My approach to education is that students shouldn’t just be reading about culture from a textbook, but students should be tasting, dancing and experiencing it for themselves.
"I wanted them to see the world as a vibrant, interconnected place right from the start.
"To them Scotland isn’t just a place on a map but a magical place of heroes, history and endless stories, which I think is the way it should be.
"By opening up my homeland to them, I am giving them a window into the world that stretches far beyond the classroom.
"They may be growing up in Hungary, but a little piece of Scotland belongs to them forever.
"Remarkably, looking at my life today, my childhood home shares an ancient bond with the country I now live in.
"Nearly a thousand years ago, Princess Margaret was born and raised on Hungarian soil before moving to Dunfermline to marry King Malcolm III.
"She became Queen and a patron saint of Scotland and today lies buried in Dunfermline Abbey.
"There is a beautiful irony that centuries after a Hungarian queen helped shape Scotland, someone from Dunfermline is now in Budapest sharing Scottish culture with Hungarian children."
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