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@SuperDfunk:
I would like to visit uganda
why .
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Uganda is…not a happy part of Africa.
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@SuperDfunk:
I've heard some good things about and I figured it would be a cool place to visit. However I haven't done much research on it, hope its not war torn, that would be a bummer. Kenya would be another, but again I am under researched.
If you want safeish places in Africa, try Ghana, Cameroon, Gabon,or Botswana.
Don't go to northern Cameroon, but probably that wouldn't be on any itinerary anyway.Uganda would probably be alright or whatever, but those four probably better.
Kenya has been struggling with Somalian islamists recently. Though the war is going on in Somalia, the islamists have been making some terrorist attacks in Kenya on occasion.
Gabon and Botswana aren't overwhelmingly poor either so there's that relative niceness to them at least.
Certainly much much better than Prismeru's desired part of India anyway.You can actually check out Botswana on google street view.
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South Africa seems like a lovely place. Would love to see uMgungundlovu and the Natal in general.
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@Monkey:
Canadian cuisine seems to be related to the same stuff they make in northern new england. Which is mostly bizarre fatty foods and maple syrup.
Though maybe that's Quebec food. That ol' New World French influence that oozes down into Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire.I imagine Ontario cuisine consists of white bread and mayonnaise.
I feel like I should try poutine again because when I tried it in Seattle… it was... just a greasy mess. Though I guess that's how it's supposed to be? I don't think they used cheese curds either.
Did a search on Canadian cuisine, got mostly pastries and most involve maple syrup. Also, I thought apple pie with cheddar was mostly a Wisconsin thing.
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I feel like I should try poutine again because when I tried it in Seattle… it was... just a greasy mess. Though I guess that's how it's supposed to be? I don't think they used cheese curds either.
Poutine is from Quebec, so it's probably best there. Which is way on nearly the other side of the continent from Seattle. Where there are French-Canadians there must be good Poutine.
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@SuperDfunk:
After a quick wikipedia read its one of the poorest. But that would be a stop if I ever decide to tour Africa. I don't want to be anywhere near a European country of any kind. However that's my preference.
The only reason one should be afraid to go to a European country is if it's Ukraine or Russia. Since the latter is beginning to get scary, and the former is currently more of a warzone than any of the African countries I just mentioned. Otherwise wtf lol.
It's if anything the most boring continent, unless that's your reason?EDIT: Are you muslim and worried about discrimination over the recent terrorist attacks in France?
Southeast Europe (and Iceland always Iceland) would be perfectly fine. Aside maybe Serbia and Macedonia.
There are entire largely muslim countries in Europe, like Bosnia, Albania and Kosovo.
And Turkey if you count them.
Cyprus also has a large Muslim minority if you count them as Europe enough.Aside from Greec and, Cyprus this isn't exactly first world Europe (though holy damn do parts of Turkey look pumped full of cash). But if you're fine going to Africa none of them are remotely poor by that comparison.
Except maybe Moldova lol.Also being Muslim in parts of Africa might not go so well for similar prejudice reasons. Do not visit Nigeria for instance.
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I am not a Muslim, I just want to go to Africa from personal reasons. The reason that I don't want to go to any European country is not fear but, purely disinterest.
There's lots of cool stuff if you know where to look in Europe.
I've been to the extreme Southeast (Greece, Cyprus, Turkey) and it's like a fusion of the middle east and Europe down there. An alternate flavor like that might be more your style. Damn good food moreover. Spain has stuff like that too.If you're thinking of a bunch of polite pale rich people sitting in cold forests in pretty victorian buildings and condos (western europe), or a bunch of scary pale poor people living in gray ugly buildings and possibly having wars over bizarre old grudges of land and ethnicity (eastern europe) you can just go for south europe instead and say fie to the lot of them.
wahts your feels on the middle of europe and africa anyway, the mediteranean and middle east
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Great pictures! What part of Mexico are you from? I'm from Durango. I basically lived here for the first two years of my life.
I'm from Mexico City (El D.F.) but i've travelled around various states of México.
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Thank you for the concern but no I'm not a Muslim. I want to visit Africa for spiritual reasons rather than sight seeing. A European country would not meet those spiritual needs therefore at this time I see no reason to go. Also thank you for the information.
If you're African American and want to do a homeward bound type thing (which I understand, it's why I want to go to Ireland and Italy). Then it would make sense to check out West Africa since that's probably where your ancestors are from, somewhere around there.
Ghana and Gabon would make do.
Uganda definitely would not. The Atlantic Slave Trade didn't go to East Africa for obvious reasons (the Arab one did though).The number one dream travel I have is Ethiopia, coolest part of Africa by a LONGshot. Though it's a super poor country so maybe when I'm an old man.
Morocco would be cool too, but that's more middle east than Sub-Sahara which is what we're talking about I assume.
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Yes and yes. I've just been reading up on some things lately and have a strong desire to do a homeward bound, sort of journey. Uganda will be a rain check, but I was mistaken the first time, I meant Ghana, but misspoke. That's a beautiful dream though, I totally understand.
Ethiopia is like Orthodox Christian Tibet or something, my wife will get a kick out of that.
It helps that West Africa is probably the most interesting Niger-Congo speaking part of Africa anyway, it's where there's a ton of cultures and ethnic groups that have gestated since forever BC, the rest of Niger-Congo Africa was populated way later and is less diverse on the whole.
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@Monkey:
Canadian cuisine seems to be related to the same stuff they make in northern new england. Which is mostly bizarre fatty foods and maple syrup.
Though maybe that's Quebec food. That ol' New World French influence that oozes down into Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire.I imagine Ontario cuisine consists of white bread and mayonnaise.
I heard that :V
We don't have a lot that's specificly Canadian. Zeph's right. Poutine. maple syrup. ice wine. apparently butter cups are canadian. those are yum. I wonder how far Seattle is from Saskatchewan. I bet my parents would put you up for a few nights. :3 We could find you some snacks with choke cherries, or saskatoon berries. Or feed you some Ukrainian food. (lots of Ukrainians migrated to that area so it's a thing, there) Ukrainian cabbage rolls are awesome.
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I heard that :V
We don't have a lot that's specificly Canadian. Zeph's right. Poutine. maple syrup. ice wine. apparently butter cups are canadian. those are yum. I wonder how far Seattle is from Saskatchewan. I bet my parents would put you up for a few nights. :3 We could find you some snacks with choke cherries, or saskatoon berries. Or feed you some Ukrainian food. (lots of Ukrainians migrated to that area so it's a thing, there) Ukrainian cabbage rolls are awesome.
Seattle (and Portland) are the two American cities that team up with Vancouver and make fun of the rest of the US and Canada.
Maple Syrup isn't specifically Canadian though, it's a huge thing in upstate New York and northern New England (aka forest New England).
Me and Chrissie visited Vermont not long back,obscenely beautiful small towns up there that didn't even seem to be trying.
And lots of really good local cheese and syrups. The authentic maple syrup tastes so compeletly nothing like store brand that I find it hard to see how they're even considered the same thing.Brattleboro was pretty, Wilmington (VT) was gorgeous.
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oh ya. I know maple syrup is a regional thing. Back where I'm from, We don't have maple trees out there, or blue jays or a lot of things that are steriotypical of Canada. omg. that reminds me of when I went out east to the maritimes. I had lobster there and wondered what the hell I was eating before. It was like night and day.
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I just caught up on this thread and now I miss really good tacos and loads of other stuff.
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oh ya. I know maple syrup is a regional thing. Back where I'm from, We don't have maple trees out there, or blue jays or a lot of things that are steriotypical of Canada. omg. that reminds me of when I went out east to the maritimes. I had lobster there and wondered what the hell I was eating before. It was like night and day.
The Maritimes are Canadian New England from what I've gathered. Minus major urban areas and cash, and possibly the only example where the Canadian side is more religious than the American.
Though I've heard Newfoundland is it's own weird thing.
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I heard that :V
We don't have a lot that's specificly Canadian. Zeph's right. Poutine. maple syrup. ice wine. apparently butter cups are canadian. those are yum. I wonder how far Seattle is from Saskatchewan. I bet my parents would put you up for a few nights. :3 We could find you some snacks with choke cherries, or saskatoon berries. Or feed you some Ukrainian food. (lots of Ukrainians migrated to that area so it's a thing, there) Ukrainian cabbage rolls are awesome.
I'll say this, it's not as far as Ontario. I actually would like to visit Canada someday.
On that note, I forgot to mention places I'd like to visit. Mostly for culture reasons, but of course, obviously the food:
Ireland, my sister has been twice. Her husband is from Cork. They are talking about moving there when the kids are old enough to go to college. Cheaper education for them.
Scotland
England
Sweden
France
Greece
Spain
Okinawa
Akihabara
Sao Paolo
Vera Cruz, where my mother was born.The most likely place I'll be able to visit outside of Washington at the moment would probably be Portland. Only thing I'm worried about is there is apparently a very high crime rate, so I've been told to pack light.
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@Monkey:
The Maritimes are Canadian New England from what I've gathered. Minus major urban areas and cash, and possibly the only example where the Canadian side is more religious than the American.
Though I've heard Newfoundland is it's own weird thing.
oh ya. I guess so. ya. no major cities or monies and stuff. I don't know what you're talking about newfoundland doing it's own thing though? Then again, I don't live out there, so what do I know.
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if we absorbed the Maritimes would the rest of canada even notice
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I feel like I should try poutine again because when I tried it in Seattle… it was… just a greasy mess. Though I guess that's how it's supposed to be? I don't think they used cheese curds either.
You really aren't selling the it was bad thing here.
Greasy, sloppy, food is like 60% of what people go to the US for.
@Monkey:
If you're African American and want to do a homeward bound type thing (which I understand, it's why I want to go to Ireland and Italy)
I find this home away from home thing you guys have to be so strangely fascinating.
It's like the polar opposite of Europe.
We don't have a lot that's specificly Canadian. Zeph's right. Poutine. maple syrup. ice wine. apparently butter cups are canadian. those are yum.
There has to be more than that, right?
On that note, I forgot to mention places I'd like to visit. Mostly for culture reasons, but of course, obviously the food:
Sweden
Come in the summer. It's quite amazing when the sun never sets on hot summer eves. Like walking around Stockholm at "night" is beautiful. Although i suppose there's the less romantic, constant insomnia aspect for people who aren't used to it lol.
But yeah come, eat, drink the local thing. It'll be a blast.
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I find this home away from home thing you guys have to be so strangely fascinating.
It's not "home away from home" it's just a roots thing. Personal history. Ask any third or fourth generation immigrants in Europe if they want to visit wherever they come from.
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@Monkey:
It's not "home away from home" it's just a roots thing. Personal history. Ask any third or fourth generation immigrants in Europe if they want to visit wherever they come from.
Unless it's a complete hellhole (Somalia, and even then) they'll probably say yes.Could very well be as bad over here. I just rarely hear people talk like that.
Me personally i've got no particular interest in my roots. Finland's a nice, kooky, country and all, but i've felt no special affinity for it just because my (Very much non-assimilated) grandparents used to live there in the 40's. But i could be the odd one out.
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I've got roots all over that I might as well visit all of Europe and call it a day
I have an uncle or something buried in a WWI cemetery in France which would be cool to see I guess
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Could very well be as bad over here. I just rarely hear people talk like that.
Me personally i've got no particular interest in my roots. Finland's a nice, kooky, country and all, but i've felt no special affinity for it just because my (Very much non-assimilated) grandparents used to live there in the 40's. But i could be the odd one out.
Having roots from Finland and living in Sweden sounds kind of like living in Minnesota and having roots in Rhode Island lol.
It's just nothing alike.
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Having roots from Finland and living in Sweden sounds kind of like living in Minnesota and having roots in Rhode Island lol.
It's just nothing alike.
You need to come over to the new world and just get the feel for the distance in all things to the old one.Yeah i realize that it might seem like that, as an outsider looking in. But i feel there's a palpable difference.
The language itself for a starter. It's just entirely alien, i understand better Italian than i do Finnish.
Not saying that it's enormous, like China and Somalia or something like that, but it's more than the geography might suggest.
But yeah, new world adventures at some point, should be interesting.
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Yeah i realize that it might seem like that, as an outsider looking in. But i feel there's a palpable difference.
The language itself for a starter. It's just entirely alien, i understand better Italian than i do Finnish.
Well yeah. Swedish is related to Italian (distantly).
Swedish is even related to the main language of Sri Lanka though extremely distantly.While Finnish is in it's own family entirely (with Estonian and Hungarian).
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@Monkey:
Well yeah. Swedish is related to Italian (distantly).
Swedish is even related to the main language of Sri Lanka though extremely distantly.While Finnish is in it's own family entirely (with Estonian and Hungarian).
Well i wasn't expecting that one. Guess i need to go listen to some Sri Lankans.
But with the Finns, i reckon that the further disconnect betwenn backwoods Finnish countryside, and urban Sweden, is also a pretty large factor in why i find my Finnish side to be so different. The language, the mannerisms, food, social interaction. It's all just so different over there.
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Well i wasn't expecting that one. Guess i need to go listen to some Sri Lankans.
It's all in the Indo-European language family.
Pretty much the product of the first major Dothraki type horse asshole society, who would have come from somewhere around today's Ukraine or south Russia. And spread out through Europe, Central Asia, Iran, India (north) and western China.
It broke down into further families later obviously (Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, Albanian, Armenian, Slavic, Iranian, Indo-Arayan and others).But with the Finns, i reckon that the further disconnect betwenn backwoods Finnish countryside, and urban Sweden, is also a pretty large factor in why i find my Finnish side to be so different. The language, the mannerisms, food, social interaction. It's all just so different over there.
Yeah but I could say that about Ohio too where I have some local roots. It's still a totally different thing.
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So I forgot that my husband wanted to get us our passports on his next day off. Did that today, had no idea how expensive it was! Thankfully things went smoothly. Everything, including our original documents (birth cert., naturalization cert…) have to be sent to our house in Texas. It will be about a month or so before we get them, which is fine. We are wanting to go to Canada sometime in the spring. Not sure what part yet, probably whatever is closest to Washington.
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Exchanged canadian cash for american cash.
It feels and looks so.. prehistoric. Come on US, we've changed our money twice in like 10 years.
Seee you tomorrowwwwww Americans. Because I AmeriCAN.
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Exchanged canadian cash for american cash.
It feels and looks so.. prehistoric. Come on US, we've changed our money twice in like 10 years.
We've changed our money a bunch too. It just hasn't undergone major design changes.
Also we don't have any british monarchs on our money :ninja:
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Our money is plastic now.
Neko. Go to Vancouver. You'll love it!
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Our money is plastic now.
Neko. Go to Vancouver. You'll love it!
Cool! I think that's the plan. More or less around the sound up there.
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@Monkey:
Yeah but I could say that about Ohio too where I have some local roots. It's still a totally different thing.
Ohio huh. My stereotype instincts envision cornfields and old timey farms.
But as for Finland i've often thought that it's a little like Quebec and Canada in general.
@Monkey:
We've changed our money a bunch too. It just hasn't undergone major design changes.
Also we don't have any british monarchs on our money :ninja:
Not that one can, visually, really tell the difference betwenn who's royal and not.
A bunch of posh old people. Should jazz it up, like put out T-Pain bills. Perfect for the strip club.
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More countries should have Ulysses S. "Motherfucking" Grant on their money.
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Not that one can, visually, really tell the difference betwenn who's royal and not.
A bunch of posh old people. Should jazz it up, like put out T-Pain bills. Perfect for the strip club.
Queen Liz II has a crown on, she stands out pretty big.
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When Canada inevitably ousts the tyranny of the Queen, who will be on the Canadian monopoly money?
Stan Rogers? Terry Fox?
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@Monkey:
Queen Liz II has a crown on, she stands out pretty big.
Yeah but George Washington looks more royal on that bill than some of our actual royals.
Gustav Vasa on the 1000 kronor bill excluded of course. Cause he looks pimp as shit.
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I HAD A KOSHER PASTRAMI SANDWICH.
uuuhvucfxjg I want another. Went to Ben's Kosher Deli near Times Square. Massive amount of pastrami, free coleslaw and pickles, chicken soup with huge matzah ball, what more can you want?
Today was nuts. I am unfortunate to have brought boots that are murdering my feet, so my 3DS shows I took 11,400 steps today in those boots. I am now practically paralyzed in bed.
Today in NYC we did:
-Travel show at Javits Centre
-Brooklyn Bridge
-Times Square
-Ate from the fabled Halal Guys food truck which unfortunately didn't live up to the hype :(Yesterday we also ate at a Halal Guinean restaurant! Wow it was amazing! I've never had West African food before so I was super excited.
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I'd love to return to Italy some day. My mother's family comes from a beautiful town called Vasto, and living there for a while would be nice.
I'd love to visit Russia and Japan as well.I live in a medium-sized city in Canada, by the way. All of my grandparents came from Italy.
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I HAD A KOSHER PASTRAMI SANDWICH.
uuuhvucfxjg I want another. Went to Ben's Kosher Deli near Times Square. Massive amount of pastrami, free coleslaw and pickles, chicken soup with huge matzah ball, what more can you want?
Today was nuts. I am unfortunate to have brought boots that are murdering my feet, so my 3DS shows I took 11,400 steps today in those boots. I am now practically paralyzed in bed.
Today in NYC we did:
-Travel show at Javits Centre
-Brooklyn Bridge
-Times Square
-Ate from the fabled Halal Guys food truck which unfortunately didn't live up to the hype :(Yesterday we also ate at a Halal Guinean restaurant! Wow it was amazing! I've never had West African food before so I was super excited.
I don't think I've ever had anything kosher, sounds amazing! I'll have to keep that place in mind if I ever go to NYC again.
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Robby took me to a Texan resteraunt. I had catfish cause that's not really a thing where I'm from. We had nachos too, and they were arranged in a ring. That was neat. There was one of those mexican bands there. I forget the name. They asked us twice if we'd like a song. We said no. Downtown, some of the crosswalks would keep stating "wait. wait. wait" when you should not cross. I found that a little redundant and annoying. :P The Riverwalk was very beautiful. One of my Toronto friends made it down for PAX as well, but was busy working the con. I might slip away from robby's office for a bit tomorrow to hang with him. We'll see what kind of interesting Texas/US things we find tomorrow. :D
i love experiencing all the differences between countries and cultures. it's fun. :D
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Robby took me to a Texan resteraunt. I had catfish cause that's not really a thing where I'm from. We had nachos too, and they were arranged in a ring. That was neat. There was one of those mexican bands there. I forget the name. They asked us twice if we'd like a song. We said no. Downtown, some of the crosswalks would keep stating "wait. wait. wait" when you should not cross. I found that a little redundant and annoying. :P The Riverwalk was very beautiful. One of my Toronto friends made it down for PAX as well, but was busy working the con. I might slip away from robby's office for a bit tomorrow to hang with him. We'll see what kind of interesting Texas/US things we find tomorrow. :D
i love experiencing all the differences between countries and cultures. it's fun. :D
Was it Tex-Mex or Mexican restaurant? I wish I could remember which one I went to when I was in San Antonio, it was right off the river. I remember it being pretty darn good.
General question for whoever may know; There was a place in Santa Fe called The Shed. They served enchiladas in either the green tomatillo sauce or the red chili sauce, or what they called "Christmas style" and you can have both. Is this common in New Mexico or is that done anywhere else? Also thought it was interesting that they served them with beans and posole as opposed to the beans and rice that I'm so used to.
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Back at home now, made it out before the 60cm snow would hit o_o good luck, New Yorkers!