u/Sad-Pop6649

This is the fastest route I can find passing through at least one town in each EU countries using only roads and public ferries. You are allowed to travel through non-EU countries where that's faster.

Google Maps puts the route at 10,525 km and 135 hours of driving. Staying inside the speed limit, and using a van full of supplies with multiple rotating drivers so your only stops are for fuel you should be able to get close to that number, visiting all 27 EU countries well within six days.

...is what I was going to say, but as I post this I realize there's two errors in this map, a hard to spot minor error and a major error that leaves me unsure about basically anything in it. So I'm posting it as a puzzle instead. What's wrong with this plan to visit all EU countries?

Bonus points if you post your own attempt at this route fixing the errors.

Inspired by this similar post about US states: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1uzqunv/the_shortest_driving_route_through_all_48/

EDIT, the solution: Lots of people playing, thank you! Lots of people found the major error that Malta is missing. u/Wolf-Majestic was the first person who caught that Croatia was also missed. And several people found a bonus problem: the legal situation in Cyprus* makes the route pictured essentially impossible. You'd need to take a much rarer and less regular ferry to Greece. Well done!

*Wrote Malta there on accident, thanks for the correction.

The one that sits somewhere in between Yakety Sax (the Benny Hill theme) and the Peter Gunn theme.

Attached is a 2 second fragment of it I fished out of a Youtube video. Two seconds is all the video needed to make its joke because we've all heard the song. I feel like I heard it a million times, I can play it basically start to finish in my head, but I have no idea what it's called, who made it or where it's originally from.

I know it's at least about as old as the year 2000 from personal memory, but it's probably quite a bit older.

Researchers explain this through the microscopic black holes in its stomach.