Inspired by other traveling threads, I thought of opening this one.
So how many countries around the world you have visited?
My list is:
UK (obviously)
India (I was born and grown up there, traveled all states of India barring few ones)
France (liked it so went twice so far, will visit again)
Netherlands
Belgium
Switzerland (liked it so went twice so far, will visit again)
Sweden (been to Lapland in Xmas)
Spain
Andorra (small but still a country)
Denmark
Italy
Portugal
Cyprus
Germany
Austria
Malta
Canada (Western part)
Bhutan
Singapore
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France
Belgium
Netherlands
Italy
Portugal
Finland
Sweden
Denmark
Germany
Norway
USA
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UK
France
Belgium
Holland
Germany
Denmark
Sweden
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Italy
Spain
Switzerland
Austria
(former) Yugoslavia
Greece
Turkey
Cyprus
Egypt
Israel
Palestine
Syria
Canada
USA
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I gave up counting years ago. :-)
Last edited by: Old Navy on Fri 22 Jul 11 at 12:56
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Driven through in one day:
Poland, Germany, Holland, France, Belgium, England.
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As ON won't reel off his list, here's mine: most in RN but many under own steam.
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Germany
Holland
Belgium
Luxemburg
Switzerland
Austria
France
Andorra
Spain
Portugal
Gibraltar (country?)
Italy
Malta
Greece
Turkey
Egypt
Djibouti
Jordan
S. Africa
Kenya
Diego Garcia (British Indian Ocean Territory)
Singapore
Malaysia
Borneo
Australia
New Zealand
USA
Barbados
Puerto Rico
Tortola
St Lucia
Bermuda
Japan
Qatar
Oman
Indonesia
Hong Kong (country?)
Cyprus
I think that covers them all.
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Not that many:0
England - mostly train/car
Wales - mostly car
Scotland - train (Edinburgh)
Ireland - train and ferry (dublin)
France - train (Paris, Lille)
Spain - plane (Barcelona and Lloret)
Germany - plane going and train coming back (Berlin)
Netherlands - train (Amsterdam and the Holland area such as the Hague)
Belgium - train (Brussels)
Not been very far really but I bet that is still a lot more than a lot of Brits.
Last edited by: RattleandSmoke on Fri 22 Jul 11 at 14:26
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Not very many, but some unusual ones
Germany
Cyprus
USA
Canada
Spain
Gibraltar
France
Belgium
Holland
Qatar
Afghanistan
Kuwait
Iraq
Austria
Morocco
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*France
*Belgium
*Netherlands
*Germany
*Luxembourg
*Austria
*Switzerland
*Spain (and all the *Balearics and two of *canaries, and Ceuta)
*Gibraltar
*Jersey
*Guernsey
*Portugal (and *Madiera)
*Greece (and a shed load of the *islands)
*Monaco
*Italy
*Morocco
Tunisia
Egypt
*Singapore
*Malaysia
*Australia
*USA
*Canada
*Mexico
Thailand
Kuwait
Dubai
* = driven a car in.
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"*Mexico"
That tops my 'really fancy that' list. That and Cuba.
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>> "*Mexico"
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>> That tops my 'really fancy that' list. That and Cuba.
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Me too, except in my case, it would be
Mexico. Really. Fancy that.
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It was just a trip over the border into Tijuana, which is a kind of Mexican Blackpool for Yanks.
Far better than Blackpool tho ( I have never been to Blackpool)
Yes Cuba is a good idea for a place to visit. I have added it to my holiday bucket list.
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>> As ON won't reel off his list, here's mine: most in RN but many under
>> own steam.
>> I think that covers them all.
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My list is similar, with many South Pacific islands thrown in, saved me the typing. :-)
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Ireland
France
Germany
Sweden
Finland
Austria
Holland
Belgium
Luxembourg
Monaco
Crete
Cyprus
Gibraltar
Spain
Portugal
South Africa
Lesotho
Nigeria
Libya
Morocco
Mozambique
Singapore
Hong Kong
Dubai
USA
Canada
Mexico
Greenland
Costa Rico
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Zero I insist you spend a few nights in Blackpool at Bank Holiday time, trust me you will really love it. Plenty of fights, short skirts and dodgy burgers.
God help me, I am going there in a couple of weeks, but only because it where this festival is. Thankfully the chavs won't have a chance with 10,000 punks in the area.
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I am mortified that I'm such a poorly travelled person compared with the globe-trotters on this forum.
France, Spain, Cyprus, Malta (Born there!), Gibraltar, Malaysia, Singapore
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>> I am mortified that I'm such a poorly travelled person compared with the globe-trotters on
>> this forum.
Nothing to be mortified about, there are enough places in the UK that I have not visited to keep me occupied for the rest of my natural. I know some locals who have not been as far as England.
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>> Nothing to be mortified about, there are enough places in the UK that I have
>> not visited to keep me occupied for the rest of my natural. I know some
>> locals who have not been as far as England.
Agree with ON. I retire soon and apart from an occasional foreign jaunt we intend to travel the UK. There are many places I want to see here which of course doesn't involve the airport rigmarole which is becoming very tiresome. If only the weather could be a little kinder.
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I am the same, there are too many places I still need to visit in the UK before I go abroad again, places like Norfolk, the Highlands, more of Cornwall, the Kent coast, South Wales, Northern Ireland etc.
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England
Ireland
Wales
France
Norfolk
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UK
Spain
Gibraltar
France
Italy
San Marino (scraping barrel)
Vatican City (ditto)
Monaco (ditto)
Switzerland
Greece
Cyprus
Iraq
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
Bahrain
Qatar
UAE
Oman
Nigeria
Egypt
USA
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Scotland
England
Ireland
Wales
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Germany
Holland
Belgium
Austria
Switzerland
Lichtenstein
Monaco
Hungary
France
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Greece ( inc Cyprus and most of the bigger islands )
Turkey
Israel
Tunisia
Yugoslavia ( as was )
E Germany ( as was )
Brazil
USA
Canada
Liverpool
Last edited by: Humph D'Bout on Fri 22 Jul 11 at 18:19
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Wales (well I was born there)
England
Scotland
Northern Ireland (not a country?)
France
Germany
Czechoslovakia and then later the Czech Republic (USSR still influencing it when I first visited!)
Spain
Italy
Greece (mainland and a fair few islands)
USA
Canada
Liverpool (me too)
Norway
Belgium
any country between France and Italy for the night train to Florence
Croatia in Sept this year.
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>> Vatican City (ditto)
Forgot about that... stayed in a hotel around the corner once. Cheap as chips. Not sure if it was actually in Vatican City though.
Lancara's list suggests military posts for some of the list... sorry to intrude though.
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England (born here)
Wales
Scotland
Isle of Wight.
Ok.... im not very well travelled!
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Not a very exciting list.....
* USA - East, West and Mid
* Canada
* Spain - Mainland, Balerics
* Portugal
* Gibralter
Hungary
* France
* Belguim
Gambia
Senegal
* Netherlands
* Antigua
Barbados
* Germany
* Switzerland
* Ireland
* Wales
* Scotland
* Isle of Wight
* Driven in this country
Last edited by: mikeyb on Fri 22 Jul 11 at 20:15
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Whole British mainland, both Irelands. Crosed the US by road in my own car both ways, route 80 to San Francisco and route 66 back. France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland. Algeria, Egypt, Sudan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand. Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, Togo, Chad, Cameroun, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia. Those are the countries I know I have set foot in since age 7. I have looked across their borders into South Africa and Swaziland and seen Somalia and Yemen from the sea. Damn hot down there. I may have set foot in Mali, Mauritania and Western Sahara, but there aren't customs or borders down there especially if you are with the people I was with. Of the others, the only one I entered illegally, for about two hours, was Cameroun. Nipped across the river from Chad in a dugout punt (anyway the guy poled it so you can't really say it was a canoe).
Driven in most of those places. When I didn't drive it would often - but not always - have been better if I had. But that's life.
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Fri 22 Jul 11 at 21:11
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England
Wales
Scotland
Ireland (Eire)
Isle of Wight ;-)
France
Germany
Belgium
Netherlands
Italy
Spain
Switzerland
USA
Yugoslavia (Croatia now)
Greece
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UK
Ireland
Germany
East Germany (pre unification)
France
Belgium
Holland
Spain
Canary Islands/ Balearics
Portugal
Austria
Italy
Greece
Turkey
Cyprus
Finland
Sweden
Denmark
Norway
Poland
Czechoslovakia (communist)
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Lithuania
Ukraine
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Russia
China
Hong Kong (pre China)
Singapore
Malaysia
Japan
South Korea
India
USA
Canada
Mexico
Columbia
Ecuador (but didn't eat any guinea pigs)
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Not as many as some ...
*England
*Scotland
*Wales
Northern Ireland
*Jersey
*France
*Holland
*Belgium
*Luxembourg
*Germany
*Spain (mainland)
*Spain (Balearics)
Portugal
Gibraltar
Italy
*Greece (5 different islands)
*Cyprus
Turkey
*Croatia
*Bosnia-Hercegovina
* = Driven - some RHD and some LHD
:-)
Last edited by: Golf_Paul on Fri 22 Jul 11 at 22:55
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Damn! Forgot Czech Republic. And Belgium.
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Fri 22 Jul 11 at 22:59
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*England
Scotland
*Wales
Northern Island
*Ireland
*Jersey
*Guernsey
Alderney
Denmark
Netherlands
Belgium
*France
*Spain & *Majorca
Luxemburg
Germany
Switzerland
Austria
Italy
San Marino (scraping barrel)
Vatican City (ditto)
Yugoslavia ((former)
Greece
*Malta
*Cyprus North & *South & *UN controlled area
*Libya
Egypt
Israel
Lebanon
*Saudi Arabia
Bahrain
Doha
Nigeria
Zimbabwe
Tanzania
*Botswana
*Bophutha Tswana
*South Africa
India
Thailand
Hong Kong (pre China)
Singapore
*Brunei
Philippines
*Australia
*New Zealand
*USA East West & South
(once entered the USA on foot illegally at Miami airport)
*Canada
*Bermuda (A moped only of course )
Barbados
*St Lucia
Jamaica
* = driven a car in.( except Bermuda)
Think thats all.
I have been very fortunate to visit so many countries. Several of them multiple times but not seen much of the UK.
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I used to visit Eel Pie Island before the bridge was built.
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>> I used to visit Eel Pie Island before the bridge was built.
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Plus a pint or two in the Qeens Head / Balmy Arms / Queens Hhead / Balmy Arms depending on what it was called then. Has any othe pub changed its name so many times like that ?
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>> >> I used to visit Eel Pie Island before the bridge was built.
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>> Plus a pint or two in the Qeens Head / Balmy Arms / Queens Hhead
>> / Balmy Arms depending on what it was called then. Has any othe pub changed
>> its name so many times like that ?
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I do hope you will forgive me h. The Barmy is spelt, er, Barmy. It is I understand a reference to the fishermen. Pedantry was never my strong point.
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>>I do hope you will forgive me h. The Barmy is spelt, er, Barmy.
>>It is I understand a reference to the fishermen.
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Thanks for correcting my fat fingers effort. Teach me to check things.
I have no other excuses as I used to visit there when it was the venue for Twickenham Cycle Club evening meets.
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> I used to visit there when it was the
>> venue for Twickenham Cycle Club evening meets.
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I believe my brother used to be a member of Twickenham CC. Where were you living in those days?
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>> I believe my brother used to be a member of Twickenham CC. Where were you living in those days?
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A
All those years ago I lived in St Margarets.
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>> I do hope you will forgive me h. The Barmy is spelt, er, Barmy. It
>> is I understand a reference to the fishermen. Pedantry was never my strong point.
Everyone still calls it the "barmy arms" no matter what they change its name to. Confuses the non locals terribly when you refer to the barmy arms.
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...Think thats all...I have been very fortunate to visit so many countries...
I think you've been most unfortunate to have to do all that poxy travelling.
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England
Scotland
Wales
USA
Mexico
France
Spain
Portugul
Morroco
[Canary Islands]
Germany*
Switzerland*
Denmark*
Sweden*
Finland*
Norway
Poland*
Italy
Bulgaria*
Turkey*
Cyprus*
Greece
Czech Republic*
Slovakia*
Egypt*
Algeria*
Tunisia
* Work related only.
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On the contrary, I'd go stir crazy now if I didn't get about. I count myself lucky that throughout my adult life I've never had to be in the same place for more than 2 or 3 consecutive days at the most and usually for no more than one day. I've never worked "office" hours. I start when I need to start and finish when I can. I don't have a regular lunch hour and I haven't the faintest idea what my holiday entitlement is. If I need a break I've always just organised myself around it. The downside is that some days are very long but that is compensated for by others which are much shorter.
I love to travel, both for business and pleasure but will admit to a hatred of the process of getting from airport car parks to sitting on a plane. It has become about the most expensive way of being humiliated.
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We used to have a plate on the wall (.Mensen die veel reizen verslijten veel schoenen.)
People who travel a lot wear out many shoes.;)
Going on a plane like cattle to slaughter yuk.
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>> Going on a plane like cattle to slaughter yuk.
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It is not so bad if you turn left at the top of front steps :-))))
e.g I have in the past done a day trip to Johannesberg
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