Bonus points, for how long? Extra points, how was it? Additional points, why there and what did you do?

  • philpo@feddit.org
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    Basically all European countries, all but five (South)- East Asian ones, the majority of African one as well as Australia and a few more.

    The downside: A fair share them for less than 24h, often only for 45min. Oh the joys of working in retrieval medicine.

    For example I have been to Greece multiple times…but I have never even seen even the Akropolis from the ground.

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    All in all, seven. Mostly for holidays or installation jobs. I like Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK.

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    Canada, US, Iceland, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Poland, Italy, Slovenia, Austria

    Stopped going anywhere new though and I just go to Iceland every summer now

    I’m Canadian BTW

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        I can’t get enough of it. The people are so friendly. You pretty much can’t get into trouble there - I forgot my camera equipment in a hotel lobby one time and it was still in the same spot 12 hours later untouched. Nobody even locks their cars.

        I just rent a car and bring my backpacking equipment and just wing it every time. Aside from Reykjavik 101 the entire country is just amazing. I Iove not having an itinerary and just planning my adventure as the weather permits since that changes daily.

        If you get a 4x4 you can travel via F roads (aka fucked up roads) and completely avoid the tourist crowd. Offroading in thorsmork in particular is just the most glorious thing a guy can do.

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          22 hours ago

          sounds like a cool getaway to rent a hut warm and scenic on a cliff or mountain just to enjoy yourself and focus on your stuff

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            I just sleep in a tent and warm up/clean up in hot springs. I’m a penny pincher though haha

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    • People’s Republic of China - I was born there, not much of a choice. Was there for approximately the first 10 years of my existence. Most of the time was spent around the Guandong Province. Went to Hong Kong (under PRC control) like once, or so I’m told, very fuzzy memories… [How was it: Serious Economic and Political issues at the time I left, so… not good 0/10]

    • Seoul, South Korea (ROK) - Stayed for a few hours, at the airport, waiting for the connecting flight. Never entered into the country. I saw some noodles on the menu at a restaurant at the airport, and it was like 10,000 Korea Won or more, I was a kid that didn’t underatand different currencies and exchange rates, shocked me lol. (Probably like $10 to $30 USD) Other than that, don’t remember much happening) [How was it: Don’t remember much, the airport looked nice, so… 7/10 I guess, but I didn’t technically enter the country]

    • United States of America - Been here ever since like I was around 10-ish. Here via Immigration Visa, I have since acquired citizenship. Lived at NYC and Philly, traveled around the NY/PA/NJ tri-state area when going back and forth between NYC and Philly. And went to DC once for a school trip. [How was it: Used to be like 6/10, now it’s 2/10]

    Does it even count if you never went through customs? Also, depending on the flight paths, I might have also flew over Japan/Russia/Canada’s Airspaces… if that also counts 🤷‍♂️

    (What does a flightpath from Seoul to JFK look like, anyways?)

    I wanna to go to Canada, I’ve always heard it was a nice and friendly place, even friendlier than the US. But don’t wanna face customs issues when returning since… ahem fascist administration, so I guess it’ll have to wait 4 years… or more… 👀

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    • Every state in the US (most in the form of being driven through back in the 70s), including Hawaii and Alaska
    • Mexico over a dozen times, primarily Laredo
    • Canada (for a day as part of a cruise)
    • England and Scotland 4 times, including my honeymoon (about a month in total)
    • Ireland (part of the aforementioned honeymoon, 4 days, including being in Dublin on St Patrick’s Day)
    • This part gets a little weird… Italy, Austria, Switzerland, WEST Germany… all before the wall fell
    • West Berlin then East Berlin, the latter being the first time I’d ever had a gun pointed at me (polizei)
    • Hungary as part of a trip to find where my paternal grandparents had lived prior to coming to the US
    • New Zealand for 2.5 weeks to see Hobbiton… as well as a wealth of natural beauty and KORORA
    • US Virgin Islands (St John)

    EDIT: also France for 6 hours via the Chunnel ;)

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    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

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    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.

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    • 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?

  • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
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    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.

  • wieson@feddit.org
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    Holidays (overnight): 12 Norway, Scotland, England, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Paraguay

    Day trip: 5 Denmark, Czechia, Argentina, Brazil, Poland

    Student exchange: 1 Belgium

    Work: 4 (1 unique) Luxembourg,FR AU CH

    Volunteering work: 3 Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania

    sum = 22; 19 in Europe , 3 in South America Loved them all.

  • MrMobius @sh.itjust.works
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    1. France (born in it)
    2. Germany: (grandparents live next door on the border. I have great memories of tasty sausages and cool public playgrounds from my youth)
    3. 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)
    4. Luxemburg: dad was a smoker, cigarettes were cheap there, end of story?
    5. 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 ❤️
    6. 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 :[
    7. 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 😅

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      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.

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          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.

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    UK.

    I’ve worked in: UK, Ireland, Spain (Marid and Barcelona), France (Paris), Italy (Milan and Rome), Germany (all over), Belgium (Brussels), Denmark (Copenhagen), US (New York and New Jersey), Canada (Toronto and Montreal)

    On top of those I’ve visited: Japan (many times), US (many times), Sweden, Holland, Iceland, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, BVI, Antigua, St Martin, Barbuda

    I’ve sailed in BVi, Antigua, Barbuda, Italy, Greece, and obviously the UK.

    If I could, I would live in Japan, by far my favourite place

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    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.

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        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.

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          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 .

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            24 hours ago

            Thanks for the suggestions! I am slowly setting aside money to try to travel there someday and planning at least helps it feel closer.

          • philpo@feddit.org
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            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.