The Countries You Have Visited Thread

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Canada (One trip in-country was 11,000 Km. Cool.)

Dont you live in Canada? Or are you still just visiting?

[Crazed Rabbit]

Born in the USA.

Visit Canada every so often. Nice aquariums and skiing.

And seeing as how some of our states have bigger economies than most of Europe, I've been to:
Washington,
Oregon,
California,
Idaho,
Montana,
Wyoming,
Wisconsin,
Minnesota,
Colorado,
Illinois,
Ohio,
and Arizona.

Crazed Rabbit

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Born in the USA.

Visit Canada every so often. Nice aquariums and skiing.

And so then you should have stopped there. Thats a topic for another thread. So Ill start it

[Beirut]

Dont you live in Canada? Or are you still just visiting?

Assuming my mortality is still intact, I'm just visiting.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

So where then are you really from.......No......Dont tell me.......Beruit?

[Ice]

Well, after my eurotrip I was going to start a thread, but I have never got around to it. Guess I'll just include it here.

*Cracks fingers*

Well Domestically I've been to:

Virgina (DC Area too) I was born there
Pennsyvlania: Lived there for a while.
Michigan: Where I currently reside
North Carolina: Emerald Isle Beach
South Carolina:Myrtle Beach
Florida:Orlando: Disney World!
Ohio: Drove Through
Maryland: Various Places, Annapolis
New York: New York City!
New Jersery: Drove through

Alright Internationally:

Canada: Windsor and Toronto. Both great cities.
Mexico: Cancun. Breath Taking beaches and jungles
Aruba: Great little touristy Island. More of a desert though.
Curaco: A Netherlands Antilly island. Like Aruba, but more industrial.
St Thomas: American Virgin Island Absolutely beautiful island. Best tropical Beaches ever. I visited St. John also from St. Thomas (Ferry ride)
St Martin: Smallest island to be divided between two countries (Dutch and French). Like St. Thomas, but less nice.

Alright for the European Continent:

France: Paris. I went was nice. I saw all the sites and ate some French food. Some people were extremely rude, but other were very kind. I had mixed feelings. I really liked the louvre.

United Kingdom: I visited London. Another very nice city. I found the people friendlier then the French people from Paris. The pound made everything expensive though.
Belgium: Brussels and Brugge. Brussels was very nice. I loved the war museum. If you are ever there go. It is very cool. Brugge was also nice. I enjoyed the small town medieval atmosphere. I also remember getting trashed with some very attractive American girls.
Netherlands: I LOVED Amsterdam. It was one of the best cities I've ever been to. The red light district was pretty cool (No I didn't receive any services there). I did visit some coffee shops and sat around laughing eating chips for a few hours. . I also enjoyed the biking lanes they had set up in the city. Everyone seemed to know English and was very friendly.
Germany: I visited Frankfurt, Munich, and Koln. (Sorry I don't know how to make the dots (I know the word for them, I just don't want to butcher the spelling)). Koln was cool. I was only there for 2 hours waiting for a train. The church was nice. Frankfurt was cool. I saw where they printed the Euro and the only building that surived allied bombings during the war. It was very industrialized. Munich was fantastic. I saw the English Garden and the Hopfbrahouse (yeah I know spelling). It was amazing I drank 2 liters of GOOD GERMAN BEER! It was the best beer I've ever had.

Wow, that was long. If you want to know more any of the above, I'll gladly share.

[Strike For The South]

Pfft Cancun? Dude thats not Mexico

[scotchedpommes]

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Trier.

[Ser Clegane]

Germany - born here, living here

German Democratic Republic ("DDR") - hey - it was a separate country Made a scooltrip there in 1987

Netherlands - multiple trips, mainly to Amsterdam and Utrecht. As a matter of fact I am in the Netherlands right now (close to s'Hertogenbosch this week)

Belgium - short trips to Brussels and Antwerp

Denmark - vacation while I was a kid, made a short visit there recently

Norway - work-related for a week near Oslo

UK - been in London for a couple of days

France - various trips to Paris (for fun and work-related)

Portugal - Lisbon, two trips to Algarve

Spain - once traveling through Spain en route to Portugal, weekend in Barcelona

Switzerland - multiple trips to Zurich and Basel

Austria - recent trip to Austria

Hungary - Balaton and Budapest (almost 20 years ago)

Czech Republic - weekend in Prague

Italy - trips to Rome, Florence and Milan + several vacations when I was little (do Vatican City and San Marino count as separate countries? )

Greece - two times on Crete

UAE - one week in Dubai (quickly passing through Oman during a trip - but I would not really count that )

USA - multiple times: 6 montths as an exchange student near Seattle in 1986, vacation trip in the West (Washington State, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona), trip to Texas(!) to visit friends. Shorter visits in New York, Chicago, New Jersey, Atlanta, Florida (near Tampa)

Canada - short trips in the area of Vancouver during my 1986 stay in the US (visited the EXPO in 1986)

Japan - vacation a couple of weeks ago

Vietnam - vacation last year

Cambodia - visiting Angkor

Thailand - Bangkok for a couple of days when traveling to Vietnam

Australia - vacation a couple of years ago

Singapore - business trip and private trip when traveling to Australia

[Strike For The South]

How did you like TEXAS!

[Stig]

Holland, I live there, hey

Germany, two stones away from where I come from

Belgium, gah little to do

France, same as Belgium

England, London is great, Canterbury was full of weirdo's

Austria, nice mountains

Italy, small people, and no-one speaks English


And I have the suspicion I'm forgetting a country

Gronigen.

Good boy ... best city in the country

[Ser Clegane]

How did you like TEXAS!

I actually liked it quite a lot - we visited San Antonio which was quite some fun (The Alamo ) and drove around the countryside quite a bit (unfortunately the bluebonnets weren't blossoming quite as much as they were supposed to).
We also attended the wedding of friends which was very nice.

"Stonehenge II" was a bit of a disappointment though

[Ice]

Pfft Cancun? Dude thats not Mexico

Cancun Area, Strike. I drove about an hour south and trust me, that was the real Mexico. The poverty was at the minimum or worse then the Mexico you've seen.

[Strike For The South]

Cancun Area, Strike. I drove about an hour south and trust me, that was the real Mexico. The poverty was at the minimum or worse then the Mexico you've seen.

Have you ever had 50 tiny mexican children running around you going "chicle chicle chicle chicle chicle?>???"

[Strike For The South]

I actually liked it quite a lot

Who doesnt?

[Fwapper]

United Kingdom[/B]: I visited London. Another very nice city. I found the people friendlier then the French people from Paris. The pound made everything expensive though.

Must be hard for you now that £1 is worth $2... Of course for us lucky Brits everything is cheap

[naut]

Hmmm, a few places:

Australia, I migrated here.

China, in and around the former area of Hong Kong.

England, pretty much everywhere, used to live there.

Fiji, pretty nice, smells though.

France, Paris, Calais, and the south.

Germany, die Autobahn ist wunderbar.

Italy, very nice.

Luxembourg, lots of cobblestones.

New Zealand, both North and South Islands, beautiful place.

Portugal, I love Portugal, best holidays happened here.

Scotland, Edinburgh only really.

South Africa, visiting family and safari's - if you do one thing in your life it must be a safari in the Kruger National Park.

Spain, great for shopping.

Switzerland, a really lovely place, I love the mountains.

United States of America, California.

That's all I can think of now.

[Ice]

Have you ever had 50 tiny mexican children running around you going "chicle chicle chicle chicle chicle?>???"

No, I thought it best not to step out of my jeep and talk to the locals.

[Ice]

Must be hard for you now that £1 is worth $2... Of course for us lucky Brits everything is cheap

It was absolutely terrible. I was paying around $6 for a bottle of water at one point. I wanted to cry.

[Fwapper]

That's a pretty good mix ya got there Rythmic.

[Fwapper]

It was absolutely terrible. I was paying around $6 for a bottle of water at one point. I wanted to cry.

If you had to buy petrol over here you would have cried. It's £1 a litre, 4.50 litres in a gallon, so thats $9 a gallon.

[doc_bean]

0. Belgium: Live there

1. Netherlands: been there lots of times

2. France: Paris, Bretagne, Normandy

3. Germany: a few trips with the parents

4. Austria: been a couple of times, to Vienna last time

5. Slovakia: passed through, quick stop in Bratislava

6. Hungary: twice with the parents, once with the girlfriend

7. Liechtenstein: don't really remember why I went tthere...

8. UK: London.

9. Denmark: passed through on the way to Norway (and back), spent a little time on the beach there

10: Norway: went there last year

11: Sweden: passed through on the way back from norway, stopped in Gotenburg

12. Spain (Tenerife): senior trip in High school

13: Malta: went with the parents

14: Cuba: 'senior trip' in uni

15: Luxembourg: almost forgot this one, went there on a trip with the parents once, and probably passed through a couple of times too

[macsen rufus]

See the sig...

(as we're also counting islands etc Spain includes Galicia and Andalucia on the mainland plus Gran Canaria and Ibiza)

[King Henry V]

England: Born there, visited my grandparents in their cottage in Dorset when I was little. Good times. Now, since they've moved to Austria, I don't go there so often.

Switzerland: Came here when I was 3 weeks old (my parents already lived there, my mum just wanted me born in England). Lived there ever since.

Germany: Was christened here, used to visit my German grandparents during the Easter and October holidays in a town in Bavaria called Senden, not far from Ulm. A place with absolutely nothing to recommend itself: not history, no scenery, no nightlife. Otherwise, I visited Berlin, Köln, Hamburg, Munich, Dresden, Leipzig (the family visiting circuit), castles and palaces here and there, and Berchtesgaden (now that was beautiful).

France: I only live 20 minutes from the French border, and my mum used to own an apartment in Nice. Only visited Paris once (when my main interest was getting to Eurodisney as soon as possible) but would love to go again. Otherwise various school trips to Brittany (now that was fun), the Auvergne, the Jura, Strasburg and most recently, a boat trip on the Canal du Midi with friends (mega fun).

Italy: Visited Florence a couple of times, otherwise I was in Sienna, Venice, Milan and Stresa on Lago Maggiore only once. Also a day trip (and booze cruise) to Ventimiglia and San Remo when on holiday in Nice.

Austria: Since my grandparents now live in Vienna, I spend about a quarter of the year there now (every holiday my mum and I go off to visit them). Lovely city, would so like to live there when I'm older. Otherwise I've been to Salzburg and the Salzkammergut region, Innsbruck for a couple of days, and the Neusiedl "lake" (more of a muddy pond, you can practically walk across it) in which I fell.

Lichtenstein: Pass through every time I take the train to Austria, does that count?

Monaco: Since I used to go to Nice quite frequently, a holiday there would invaribaly include a trip to Monaco and an evening spent in the Hotel de Paris or the Monte Carlo Grand (or whatever they want to call it nowadays).

Denmark: Went to Legoland (Yay!)

Czech Rep.: Visited Prague when I was two, would really like to go back one day.

Slovakia: Evening trip to Bratislava once, since Mum was navigating we got there too late to see anything. Pretty town, great argentinian steak house (one of the best steak I've ever eaten). Not all that cheap for Eastern Europe.

Poland: I stared across it from the German side of the Oder, but didn't actually get across.

Sweden: I fell asleep. Not on my list of places I really want to visit again.

Hungary: Been there three times so far, once to Budapest, which was a bit run down, with some evidence that many buildings had been decorated by that renowned duo, Schmeisser and Kalashnikov. Great food, nice wine, very reasonable (in some places).

Belgium: Went to Brussels once when I was little, Glimpsed the Waterloo lion from the car and went to a puppet theatre in Brussels (saw the Three Musketeers) which was nice. Would soooo love to visit Flanders.

America: First time I went I stayed in Boston and New York, found Boston nice and historical, New York less so, I didn't get into the Statue of Liberty but I did go to the top floor of the World Trade Centre (that's something to tell the grandkids). Second time I was in Florida (Disney! Yay!) and took a cruise from Tampa that went round the Gulf of Mexico, so I also visited New Orleans on the way. Nice if you're American and aren't really used to old cities, but when you're from Europe, well.....

Mexico: Saw Cozumel and visited the ruins of Tulum during a cruise (see above).


So there you go. The world seen by me so far.

[I of the Storm]

Germany: live there, doesn't count really

Czech republic; Slovakia; Poland; Hungary; France; Denmark; Italy; The Vatican; Spain; Great Britain; Republic of Ireland; USA; Canada.
Oh, and Holland, I seem to recall somehow...

[SwordsMaster]

Heh, Russia, Ukraine, Spain, Portugal, France, Netherlands, UK, Ireland, Italy, Vatican, Andorra, Morocco.

[drone]

USA - born, raised, still living here

Mexico - a few quick visits when I was younger
Bahamas - took a cruise through the islands
Canada - been skiing in Whistler-Blackcomb twice, flying through Vancouver
England/Scotland/Wales - lived in England for a couple of years, various excursions across the whole island
Austria - flew into Innsbruck, skiing in St. Anton
Switzerland - flew into Geneva, skiing in Zermatt
France - Paris sightseeing

I've driven through the People's Republic of Massachusetts, but I don't count that!

[Antagonist]

The places I have been... the wonders I have seen... are actually quite limited in number. *sigh*

United Kingdom
England - I was born there, visit London fairly regularly, and occasionally Manchester. Little experience of the rest. I thought of myself as English until I was about 7, then abruptly changed internal nationality, it's a disturbing experience.
Wales - Passed through it regularly in times passed on peregrinations between the British Isles, haven't been there recently. I recalled Holyhead as a terrible place, Cardiff as nice.
Northern Ireland - Pass through fairly regularly. It's okay, Belfast is a nice city if you can get away from its sinister reputation.
I've never been to Scotland, though I've always been curious.

Republic of Ireland - Lived in Dublin for quite a while now. Wasn't keen at first, but it's grown on me.

Germany - I have a large number of German relatives but I've only visited once. I enjoyed it a lot but don't recall it very well.

France - I've never actually been to France, but have travelled through it several times. Nice food, haven't stayed long enough to develop a more detailed impression.

Spain - I've never been to mainland Spain, only to the Balearic islands. They're nice enough when they aren't basically England.

Portugal - Best holiday ever, and it's extraordinarily cheap. I haven't been outside the Algarve though, probably not a perfect impression.

Italy - My family always seems to holiday in Italy for some reason.

Switzerland - Again, only been through here. Beautiful scenery, can't comment on the people or activities.

Austria - Skiing there is great, but then again I've never ski'd anywhere else.

Cyprus - I always imagine it as the quintessential Mediterranean place, even though it's probably not. Very relaxing place if you avoid the most touristed areas.

Greece - Technically I've been there, but I never left the airport and it was night, so I have never glimpsed the wine-dark sea and sunny olive-groves of Hellas.

United States of America - Visited quite often when I was a child, and always received a really hospitable welcome. I haven't visited in almost a decade though.

Also, I was once booked to go on a week-long whistle-stop awesome-things-only tour of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, but the guy who has arranging it got sick and cancelled.

Antagonist

[Quid]

Switzerland: Came here when I was 3 weeks old (my parents already lived there, my mum just wanted me born in England). Lived there ever since.

Didn't know you were Swiss (and English, I presume). The only time I spent in your canton was during my military service (Bure). It rained for 3 weeks. Was not an enjoyable experience. But then, apparently, it's either dusty or rainy over there...

Quid

[Conradus]

Belgium, live there

France, been to Paris for a week, some short trips in the north

Germany, went to Cologne for a day

Netherlands, some short trips and Amsterdam for a day

Uk: spent some days in London

Italy: went their two times, a week in Roma, and 5 days in the South.