Bonus points, for how long? Extra points, how was it? Additional points, why there and what did you do?
Sadly one. It’s my own, and it’s one that I wanna get out of so bad.
And tourists LIKE this place?? I mean, good for them, but I just don’t see how. Some have even moved here.
And no, it’s not Japan. It’s actually its polar opposite (not literally). If Japan is known as the “land of the rising sun”, my country is the land of the setting sun. It would make more sense before the discovery of the New World.
Give up? It’s Morocco.
id like to travel it still
Check it out for yourself. You might like it.
1, other than my home country. I spent 5 weeks in Thailand. Thailand is a great place, I could live there
I’m the Johnny Cash of Tamriel, Khajiit goes most places.
- Skyrim
- Hammerfell
- High Rock
- Morrowind
- Valenwood
- Summerset Isle
- Black Marsh
And of course Elsweyr.
- France (born in it)
- Germany: (grandparents live next door on the border. I have great memories of tasty sausages and cool public playgrounds from my youth)
- Germany: (again) as an exchange student in middle school. I still have a seering memory that I didn’t even know what my home region name was in German (Lorraine = Löthringen)
- Luxemburg: dad was a smoker, cigarettes were cheap there, end of story?
- UK: went three time, in middle school, high school and with family. Best time was in high school when I boarded at this Elvis double’s. We always listened to great music and he made pancakes EVERY morning ❤️
- Denmark: exchange student in high school. It’s a beatiful country with great history. Too bad that my pen pal/exchange student and I were both timid :[
- Catalogna, Spain: with friends. Lasting memory is that I took some pleasure swimming again there. Wasn’t my thing since PE teacher said to my face I could’nt swim… 😬
Looking back, I’m quite privileged 😅
Catalogna, Spain:
I think that one was supposed to be Catalonia (or Catalunya or Cataluña), the gn as ni is an Italian thing, it’s not like that in Spanish nor in Catalan.
I believe its catalogne in French.
You got me! It was my inner french that seeped into my english 😄
Ah, didn’t knew that french also did the gn as ni, that makes a bit more sense, I found it weird that a French person was using an Italian phonem when writing English and was wondering if maybe there was a place with a similar name but google didn’t seemed to think so.
I’m American, so predictably I’ve never been out of the country. If money weren’t an issue I’d love to travel to Germany, Japan, and China to start.
Why specifically Germany? And why is it at the top of your list?
I’ve got some German heritage, and I’ve always wanted to see the Black Forest. Plus there’s the Brandenburg gate and castle Neuschwanstein.
Oof, you’d be on the road a lot. Black forest - in the very south west, Neuschwanstein - pretty south east, Berlin - very north east.
I might suggest going to the black forest, visiting all the historical castles in the Mittelrheintal (middle Rhine valley), and instead of Brandenburg gate maybe Stuttgarter Schloss etc. Neuschwanstein is basically castle-cosplay. I think in the middle Rhine valley you’ll find cooler things and it’s closer .
Thanks for the suggestions! I am slowly setting aside money to try to travel there someday and planning at least helps it feel closer.
Huh? “Very south west”/“very north east” is not quite right. Füssen is very much in the middle of the south of Germany.
Black Forest is around 2,5-3h(max.)/5.5h by train from the Black Forest by car (trust me,I live there and have to travel to Füssen from time to time).
Berlin is another story, takes around 7.5h by car (and can be even faster by train, 6.5h is possible) from Füssen.
But it’s nowhere near impossible, or far. Especially as there are more than enough interesting destinations for a tourist in between: Munich, Nürnberg, maybe with a detour to Rothenburg.
I can understand your reservations against Neuschwanstein, I absolutely understand every tourist that wants to see it. It’s quite nice from afar and well, while it’s often fairly overcrowded it can be avoided if one chooses the right season and time. And it’s always quite a bummer for most people to not have seen it in a once in a lifetime trip.
And I have no idea how you come to the conclusion that the Middle Rhine valley (which is rather annoyingly to travel to) is closer - and while the German view on the Middle Rhine valley is quite romantic, it has lost its appeal for most oversea tourist nowadays. After having many clients who were,honestly, quite underwhelmed, I no longer recommend it for people with a short time to spend.
Anyway, OP, shoot me a message if you make it to the forest, always up for a beer.
- US (live here)
- Australia
- Canada (many times)
- South Korea (twice)
- Kuwait
- Iraq
- Jordan
- Ireland
- England
- El Salvador
Notes:
- When I was in South Korea, I visited the DMZ both times and stepped over the 38th parallel into North Korea both times. Does that count as having been to North Korea?
If we are counting airports, I have also been to:
- Germany
- Slovakia
Countries I’ve been to for some kind of Holiday:
- Austria
- Belgium
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- England
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Israel
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
That’s more than I initially thought…
- 2 decades: Netherlands
- 2 years: Belgium
- 2 months: Finland
- 2 weeks: Iceland
- 2 days: United Kingdom
- 2 hours: Switzerland
- Somewhere between 2 minutes and 2 seconds: Netherlands, Germany, Belgium all at once
- 6 years: Germany
- 6 months: France
- 6 weeks… this is getting tricky, Luxembourg is probably closest but not close enough to claim this tier
- 6 days: Poland
- 6 hours: Sweden
- 6 minutes: I give up
I didn’t realise it was a life goal of mine to spend 6 minutes in a country until this post, but now I’m not sure I can unsee this list. Maybe the Vatican is a good candidate for that? Italy can go in the 2 days slot, bumping UK up to 6 weeks another time. Germany will exceed the 6 years slot soon though, maybe I’ll need to visit all sixers to get bingo on a row of sevens instead. And where are we going for 7 seconds? Another tripoint, does that count?
American here! I’ve been lucky to travel a bunch for work so some of the countries I’ve been to 10+ times for 1-2 weeks. Others are just for holiday.
Canada - only a few day trip to Toronto Mexico - one week but flying there tomorrow for a second week France - 10+ work trips Italy - 10+ work trips UK - weekend in London with the EuroStar from Paris Germany - a couple work trips China - one week Australia - two weeks Jamaica - two weeks Dominican Republic - one week
Somewhere between 17-19, but only on the Northern hemisphere.
One thing I’ve learned is that humans are very much alike everywhere, both good and bad, but mostly in a good way. I will never understand racism or patriotism. Borders are artificial.
I refuse to answer, since “what is the first country you traveled to” is a recovery question used by at least one online service I’ve used, and I don’t want to risk letting someone else have a better chance at guessing the answer I used.
Tip: if you trust yourself to keep track of stuff, you can just use another password for these fields. I know this is pretty common knowelege in the privacy space, but a lot of people never think of it.
This is true. However, if a service uses a “recovery question” at all, and doesn’t allow me to use a physical security key, it means they don’t really care about security. Moreover, it probably means that they will want me to answer a “recovery question” while talking on the phone or visiting somewhere in person, and I would probably prefer to not appear to be different to other people in a situation like that.
I just write curse words or pick some random option for those.
Just 4. US, Canada, England, Wales.
- Live in the US.
- Canada
- Mexico
- Jamaica
- Grenada
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Nicaragua
- Costa Rica
- Colombia
- Brazil
- Chile
- Uk
- Ireland
- France
- Spain
- Germany
- Netherlands
- Italy
- Sweden
- Denmark
- Turkey
- Saudi Arabia
- Pakistan
I think the shortest was 1 night in Trinidad Longest was 2 years when I lived in Grenada.
Australia Hong Kong Taiwan China England Wales France Spain Catalonia Germany United States New Zealand Thailand Singapore Kenya Papua New Guinea Indonesia
Plus a bunch of airports, of course.
I’ve been on holiday in 32 countries. Quite a lot! About 2/3 of those were European countries (I’m European).
