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.
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.
- 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
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.
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.
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.
- 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?
- Canada (I live here)
- USA (many many family/friend visits since I was a child; also lived there for ~6 years as an adult)
- England (one week in London, one week in the South Downs)
- Denmark (three weeks for a family visit)
- France (a weekend in Paris)
- Belgium (about 2-3 days in Bruges)
- The Netherlands (about 2-3 days in Delft)
- Germany (roughly 6 hours, driving from Belgium to Denmark)
USA, Canada, Mexico, Bahamas, Bermuda, UK, Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, UAE, Saudi Arabia, India, Bhutan, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia
I’m surprised that there have been very few people who go to Turkey despite it being 5th most visited
I’m even more surprised that nobody went to China despite being the 4th most visited
maybe Chinese diaspora returning? Either way I actually do wanna go to china
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
- Went to Canada. No earthly idea why. Drove through London on our way to the Niagara Falls, then looped back around, saw hydroplane races in Syracuse, and stayed in the weirdest motel ever somewhere in Penn or Ohio because it was really cheap. This was the most WTF vacation I’ve ever been on. No idea what my parents had in mind. I literally only remember being on the car.
- Went to Thailand for about ten days. Stopped in Laos for an afternoon and got a t-shirt and snake whisky. Almost set foot in Cambodia, but the border was closed so we got our passports stamped and that was all. Saw a bunch of monks on cell phone’s and smoking cigarettes. Saw so many freaking temples. Went to the bridge on the river Kwai. Ate some good food. Saw the red light district. Thought it would be sexy, but it was just depressing. Loved the people and the experience and want to go back some day. Also saw Tokyo through airport window.
- Went to Mexico to get drunk and eat good food for a week at a resort. Got drunk and ate well for a week. Went to a xenote and swam.
- Went to the Bahamas to get drunk on boat for a week. Twice. Got drunk for a week both times. Also snorkeled at some point and visited pigs on an island.
- Headed to the Dominican Republic to get drunk in Punta Cana for a week in about ten days. Might do a topless cruise depending on how my wife feels. Jury is still out, but I have a feeling I’ll successfully get drunk for about a week.
