Post the places you've been to, recommend and still want to visit.
So wants to get the ball rolling? 
The official tourism thread.
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Dude, this is the third travelling thread we've had. ;D
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@Toraish:
Dude, this is the third travelling thread we've had. ;D
lol I've been AWOL too long. At least we can say this is official. XD
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United States. Mexico. Canada.
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Oh we're doing lists? Okay.
Finland, Russia, Estonia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg, The United Kingdom (+ Gibraltar twice), France, Spain (mainland Spain thrice; Mallorca once), Italy, Vatican City, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, The Czech Republic, Greece (Crete, really), Tunisia…
And I think that's all (21) for now. Other continents and missing European countries to come as soon as I get more money for travelling.
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@Toraish:
Oh we're doing lists? Okay.
Finland, Russia, Estonia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg, The United Kingdom (+ Gibraltar twice), France, Spain (mainland Spain thrice; Mallorca once), Italy, Vatican City, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, The Czech Republic, Greece (Crete, really), Tunisia…
And I think that's all (21) for now. Other continents and missing European countries to come as soon as I get more money for travelling.
LOL, what's sad is that we're like the same age, so I have no excuse.
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LOL, what's sad is that we're like the same age, so I have no excuse.
Parents who didn't really do much travelling or never had the money for it. Gosh, we even saved up on food and only ate macaroni and minced meat for months just to get on a vacation abroad. Totally worth every cent.
I've only ever been to a single two-week trip to London/Paris/Rome on my own and even that took like three years' worth of savings.
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LOL, what's sad is that we're like the same age, so I have no excuse.
I've never had the chance to visit another country if it makes you feel any better.
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That young Finn he's a freak, he's out traveling every day of the week incredibly great humming rendition of infinite mass
Me i've only ever been through Germany, Denmark and Holland. Can't say much since it was only a school trip lol
But i'd like to visit Russia someday, idealy for an extended stay, but i'll take what i can get
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USA (CT, RI, MA, NY, NJ, PA, DC, DE, MD, VA, NC, SC, KY, WI, MN, FL, GA, VT), Canada, Cyprus, Northern Cyprus*, Iceland, Greece, Turkey
*doesn't really count but hey
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@Monkey:
USA (CT, RI, MA, NY, NJ, PA, DC, DE, MD, VA, NC, SC, KY, WI, MN, FL, GA, VT), Canada, Cyprus, Northern Cyprus*, Iceland, Greece, Turkey
*doesn't really count but hey
Dude I thought you visited the Balkans.
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I've always had this notion that there isn't much to be had from just visiting places for a day or two
How do you guys who've been zipping all over for short periods of time feel about it?
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@wolfwoof:
I've always had this notion that there isn't much to be had from just visiting places for a day or two
How do you guys who've been zipping all over for short periods of time feel about it?
Yeah I was just thinking about that…
But there isn't enough time in a human lifespan to live for extended periods of time in a whole lot of places, so you might as well just "collect them all" and box 'em after you're done.
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@wolfwoof:
I've always had this notion that there isn't much to be had from just visiting places for a day or two
How do you guys who've been zipping all over for short periods of time feel about it?
Unless you have like…2-3 objectives (like seeing 2-3 spots, eating a particular food, looking for a particular item/landmark) in that ONE particular location, I don't see anything wrong with visiting a place for one or two days. I've done it plenty of times when traveling in Japan. Heck, I stopped at Morioka to eat at ONE restaurant before heading up to Hokkaido. Likewise, I stayed at Tottori for only a day just to see the sand dune. So unless you have a VERY specific objective for a pretty small location without much to do or eat, I would recommend NOT spending a day or two at a particular location.
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Dude I thought you visited the Balkans.
Money happened lol.
I was like 40 minutes from Macedonia and Bulgaria at points though. -
Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia (from western border to lake Baikal), Slovakia, Ukraine.
I need more mountains and deserts in my tourist life.
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Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia (from western border to lake Baikal), Slovakia, Ukraine.
I need more mountains and deserts in my tourist life.
How was Belarus lol.
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PS: I've got
US (CA, WA, IL, NY, VI, NJ, FL, Hawaii and some others I forgot), Canada, Jamaica, Japan, and Korea.Next ones will most likely be India, Thailand, and POSSIBLY…China and Russia.
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Well by places i was thinking entire nations, or atleast major cities
But i suppose i never considered traveling abroad being like i want to go to X and eat at Y, i kind of want to get under the skin of the place, if that makes any sense lol. Idealy i'd like to know someone there who can take you around the place and expose you to how the locals are
Like if i went to the US i'd be hey AP peeps want to hang around….for a few weeks..6 months tops:ninja:
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@wolfwoof:
Like if i went to the US i'd be hey AP peeps want to hang around….for a few weeks..6 months tops:ninja:
You shouldn't come to my town though, it's a black hole. You should go to the Bay, then we could hang out and I could live at Foolio's house. If he has enough money to shill out 800 bucks on a video game or whatever, he probably has enough to feed me.
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@wolfwoof:
Well by places i was thinking entire nations, or atleast major cities
In that case never. That's a dreadful idea unless you're going to some boring US state like Kansas or something. Heck, 2 weeks is the bare minimum for staying at a country you haven't been exposed to before.
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You shouldn't come to my town though, it's a black hole. You should go to the Bay, then we could hang out and I could live at Foolio's house. If he has enough money to shill out 800 bucks on a video game or whatever, he probably has enough to feed me.
I could cook so economically that he couldn't possibly object to having two unwanted houseguests
I of course assume that Foolio has a swinging bachelor pad in which we can pay for our stay by wing personing him
But why stop there. AP get together at F manor, alternatively weekend at Foolio's
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Been to:
In the US: California (born), Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Texas, All of the Northeast as far south as Virginia, excluding Maine
Internationally:
-Canada (Toronto)
-Mexico (Cancun + Yucatan)
-Iceland (Reykjavik + drive around the country)
-Holland (Utrecht, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague)
-France (Paris + Bretagne)
-Belgium (Bruges; day trip from Holland)
-Japan (Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Yamagata, Fukushima, Tochigi, Tokyo, Chiba, Yokohama, Himeji, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Nara, Gifu)I'd like to someday go to Sweden (got a few family friends from there), Germany and/or Austria, New Zealand, Thailand, Singapore, Brazil, and the [US] Pacific Northwest, among others. Also wherever you have to go to see the Aurora Borealis in person.
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@CCC:
Also wherever you have to go to see the Aurora Borealis in person.
That would be Iceland, Finland, or some tiny spots in Russia. Been interested in seeing the damn thing in person too, but they are a bit challenging to get to from what I heard due to weather conditions and occurring in rural areas. I THINK Iceland is suppose to have them most frequently, but I'm probably wrong.
PS: CCC you went to Iwate? Did you ever try Wanko Soba?
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@CCC:
Also wherever you have to go to see the Aurora Borealis in person.
One of my lifetime goals, it's a bit tricky to plan for though.
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If I get into the grad school program of my dreams, Ireland, UK, Georgia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Moldova and Tranistria would line up hopefully in my itinerary.
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So I guess I was in:
Croatia (Rab)
Czech Republic (Prague, Brno)
Egypt (Hurghada)
France (Paris)
Germany (Limburg, Oberaudorf)
Hungary (Lake Balaton)
Italy (seaside towns, Venice, South Tyrol)
Ireland (Dublin, Galway)
Slovakia (Bratislava)
Spain (Barcelona)The only places I really plan to travel to right now are the US and Japan (especially Tokyo), though I wouldn't mind visting many other countries.
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unfair ueropeans have so many small as s ocuntries near them to vsiit
we just have mexico, canda, and like a bunch of tiny islands
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Does Florida count as another country.
I mean it felt like I was entering the Confederacy at any rate.
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US: (TN, GA, FL, AL, AR, MS, LA, VA, NC, SC, KY, MO, KS, IA, NB, SD, WY, MT, ID, WA, OR, CA, NV, AZ, UT, CO, NM, TX, OK, DC, MD, DE, PA, NJ, NY, CT, RI, MA, NH, VT, ME, ND, MN, WI, MI, IL, IN, OH, and WV)
Canada: (AL, BC, NB, NS, QC, ON, MB, SK)
Mexico: (QR, YU)
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@Monkey:
unfair ueropeans have so many small as s ocuntries near them to vsiit
we just have mexico, canda, and like a bunch of tiny islands
Yeah but we have a ton of little states mushed together so we can pretend that they're little countries (heck, some of them act like they're special enough to BE their own country…ahem).
Plus we have Hawaii.
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@Monkey:
How was Belarus lol.
It's okay.
Delicious sausages and cured meats, dirt cheap gas, underground market dollars and tight border control. In comparison with what it was just ten years ago, Minsk isn't much different from an average capital, quality roads have been built in the countryside and you can actually find internet access when you need it. The problem is the credits that have been sustaining their economy for too long and how accustomed to them and dependent on them it has become. Solution? Well, that's the dangerous tricky part.
@Monkey:
unfair ueropeans have so many small as s ocuntries near them to vsiit
No visa, too.
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@Cyan:
Does Florida count as another country.
I mean it felt like I was entering the Confederacy at any rate.
Driving down I-95 the exact point where things started to feel Confederate was South Carolina. Virginia was really nicely mixed up, and North Carolina felt like "the South of the US" or something.
South Carolina was when I crossed over into a swampy hot rickety somewhere else and NOTHING felt right anymore.–- Update From New Post Merge ---
No visa, too.
Not a problem for us in most of Europe.
Belarus and Russia are pretty much authoritarian countries so that's why they're like that.
And having been to Turkey myself, I can tell you it's nothing more than like a 20 dollar online sign up you just print out like an Amazon gift card lol, and that's all. Easy peezy. -
Maybe it's because I was eight at the time, but the south didn't seem too bac when I went through it. The Carolinas were…quaint. Virginia was basically Maryland. Georgia had good peaches.
Then I got to the Florida/Georgia border and suddenly Bonnie Blue Flag started playing and everyone had the Confederate battle flag on their front lawns above the Union flag.
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I drove through bumfuck Edirne and Tekirdag Province Turkey on a bus, and had to remark it looked considerably more built up and well maintained than South Carolina along the I-95.
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@Monkey:
I drove through bumfuck Edirne and Tekirdag Province Turkey on a bus, and had to remark it looked considerably more built up and well maintained than South Carolina along the I-95.
I do distinctly remeber Columbia looking like shit compared to Raleigh or even Trenton.
Not even being burned by Sherman is an excuse, because Atlanta looked great.
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@Cyan:
I do distinctly remeber Columbia looking like shit compared to Raleigh or even Trenton.
Not even being burned by Sherman is an excuse, because Atlanta looked great.
lol the Union just fucking torched South Carolina
then left North Carolina alone, good choice imo
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@Monkey:
lol the Union just fucking torched South Carolina
then left North Carolina alone, good choice imo
you fuckers fire on fort sumter, we're going to fire on everything you own
One of the mudsills, an Ohio private, vowed to make South Carolina " suffer worse than she did during the time of the Revolutionary War. We will let her know that it isn't so sweet to secede as she thought it would be." Another soldier declared: "Here is where treason began and, by God, here is where it shall end!" A South Carolina woman whose house was plundered recalled that the soldiers "would sometimes stop to tell me they were sorry for the women and children, but South Carolina must be destroyed."
sherman's army's sheer hate-on for south carolina is awesome
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@Monkey:
lol the Union just fucking torched South Carolina
then left North Carolina alone, good choice imo
Eh… sorta, they burned some of Fayetteville's industries but that's because it was an ammunition center for the Confederacy.
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Italy, US, Mexico, Brazil, India, China, Tunisia, Spain, France, Japan.
Despite being a New Yorker, never ended up visiting Canada so far. This is a source of lasting shame
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I just want to travel anywhere outside of Canada, even in Canada I've been like no where (only regularly travel between Toronto and Niagara Falls). I went to Ottawa once and it was boring lol. I want to go to Montreal though.
I want to go to any European country basically, specifically Spain. Sweden or Norway would be sick to go to as well.
Oh, and back here in North America, I want to go to New York! Or New Orleans for some street jazz
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Any of you folk want to do London, feel free to drop me a line. I'm used to doing host duty now, it's that kind of city.
As for me:
United Kingdom: England (all over), Wales (all over), Scotland (Central & South)
Ireland: Dublin only
France: Pretty much everywhere except the south coast and the South West beyond the Atlantic coast
Spain: I walked across the bridge from Hendaye and back
Belgium: Pretty much everywhere except Brussels
Luxembourg: there isn't much of it to specify about
Netherlands: Holland (they're not the same thing)
Germany: Pretty much everywhere, with the exceptions of Frankfurt.a.M and Stuttgart. I've lived here a few times.
Austria: Tirol, Salzburg, Hallstadt, Vienna, Burgenland
Slovakia: Bratislava only
Czech Republic: Most of Bohemia, especially around Tábor in the South, Prague, and Děčín in the North
Poland: Szklarska Poręba only
Denmark: Padborg only
Sweden: Stockholm only
United Arab Emirates: Abu Dhabi Airport
Thailand: Bangkok and the Eastern SeaboardI love travel and I really miss having been able to do much of it recently because of not having any savings. When I get a job, I'll save up and hopefully get to visit some more places I want to see like Norway, Canada, the US, and East Asia. Or just anywhere really. I still regret that I couldn't go on the Mongol Rally to Mongolia when I got an invitation, because I was 17 and still in school…
Yeah I was just thinking about that…
But there isn't enough time in a human lifespan to live for extended periods of time in a whole lot of places, so you might as well just "collect them all" and box 'em after you're done.
Countries = Pokemon. Even right down to them evolving into other countries sometimes.
@wolfwoof:
I could cook so economically that he couldn't possibly object to having two unwanted houseguests
I of course assume that Foolio has a swinging bachelor pad in which we can pay for our stay by wing personing him
But why stop there. AP get together at F manor, alternatively weekend at Foolio's
Sounds good to me!
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I think I'm starting to realize how boring my life is and has been.
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@Cyan:
Maybe it's because I was eight at the time, but the south didn't seem too bac when I went through it. The Carolinas were…quaint. Virginia was basically Maryland. Georgia had good peaches.
Then I got to the Florida/Georgia border and suddenly Bonnie Blue Flag started playing and everyone had the Confederate battle flag on their front lawns above the Union flag.
you've confused florida for alabama
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If we're counting airports lol..
US (IL), Germany, and Switzerland.
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If we're counting airports, then I've been to Seattle!
crickets
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@Monkey:
If we're counting airports lol..
US (IL), Germany, and Switzerland.
Totally counts. Totally.
I mostly only mention that UAE layover because it was my first time outside Europe and outside a temperate climate and so had a profound effect on me.
moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon
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I'm surprised how few US posters have hit up south america. Why is that?
I've heard a lot of great stories from a few SA colleagues.
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Wow, it's amazing me how specific some people are able to be with their lists. I suppose it doesn't help that so much of the travelling I've done was when I was quite young. My list, I suppose:
Italy
England
Spain
Germany
France
Switzerland
Norway
Uruguay
ArgentinaI think that's it, although there might have been a couple other South American countries we went to at the time, I was too young to really remember very well. Not exactly the most diverse list. My grandparents could tell some amazing stories for the thread though, I suspect. Specifically, I've often heard brought up how, when my mother was young, they took her on a road trip from India all the way to Europe, going through the Middle East. From what I hear of it, it was an absolutely amazing experience; it makes it all the sadder to think of how unlikely, if not downright impossible, such a trip would be today, not to mention the indefinite future.
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@Print:
Totally counts. Totally.
I mostly only mention that UAE layover because it was my first time outside Europe and outside a temperate climate and so had a profound effect on me.
I totally should count Germany regardless, the Munich experience had me have to venture outside and stay for retarded hours for their terrible architecture. Germans can't make airports, unless they're Swiss German that is.
As for climate shock, Florida as a kid was odd (grandparents lived at Cape Coral, so way down there too).
I remember one day coming back from Savannah GA by plane in March, my flight connections took me from Atlanta to Orlando, where it was frilly green and sunny and Disney resortish, and then the flight from there took me right into snowy NYC. Insane day lol.But for real exotic climates, Cyprus was the first time.
To Chrissie our climates were exotic of course
She was completely bamboozled that it rained when she was here in the summer.
"It does not rain in the summer that is for winter!!! in cute greek accent"
