leviramsey Posted December 22, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted December 22, 2012 Yeah, but the furthest west I've been is right about here, which is still Eastern, by about 20 or 30 miles from the Alabama border (being at -84.8 degrees, the sun rises/sets closer to 6 hours behind GMT at that latitude, so it should be in Central) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 USA Italy Greece England Costa Rica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted December 23, 2012 Author Share Posted December 23, 2012 Holland (does the airport only count?) Switzerland (as above) Canaries Airports don't count...Unless you clear customs and stand outside the airport! I tried to count Ireland (was at Shannon airport) but until I actually visited Dublin, I couldn't tick it off. Canaries aren't a country... just a part of Spain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 Airports don't count...Unless you clear customs and stand outside the airport! I tried to count Ireland (was at Shannon airport) but until I actually visited Dublin, I couldn't tick it off. Canaries aren't a country... just a part of Spain. Thought as much on both counts, but worth a try!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 England, Ireland, Wales, Spain, France, Malta (worst country I've been to, its just like a big old peoples home) , turkey, Greece. Just 8, but I'm hoping to add Belgium, germany and Bulgaria next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baselayers Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 USA Canada Sri Lanka New Zealand France Austria Switzerland Italy Iran Portugal Spain Cuba Dominica Finland Iceland Norway Sweden Netherlands Egypt Monaco Greece Czech Republic Japan China Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 **** it where do you people get all the money?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted December 27, 2012 Author Share Posted December 27, 2012 England Wales Northern Ireland Ireland France Spain Germany Netherlands Denmark Sweden Portugal Italy Vatican Malta Finland Lithuania Latvia Estonia Poland Czech Republic Cyprus Yugoslavia (pre war but areas I went are now Croatia & Bosnia) USA Egypt Thailand Cambodia Vietnam Malaysia (both Peninsular & Borneo) Indonesia Philippines Hong Kong Singapore 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 England Wales Northern Ireland Ireland France Spain Germany Netherlands Denmark Sweden Portugal Italy Vatican Malta Finland Lithuania Latvia Estonia Poland Czech Republic Cyprus Yugoslavia (pre war but areas I went are now Croatia & Bosnia) USA Egypt Thailand Cambodia Vietnam Malaysia (both Peninsular & Borneo) Indonesia Philippines Hong Kong Singapore Impressive list Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 (edited) Australia Austria American Samoa Belgium Bahrain Bulgaria Barbados Brunei Daruasalem Cuba Cambodia China Croatia Czech Republic Djibouti Denmark Ethiopia Egypt Ecuador Estonia England :-) Finland Fiji France Germany Gambia Greece Hungary Hong Kong Italy India Ireland Jamaica Jordan Japan ( all the J countries :-) ) Kenya Korea , democratic people's republic ( north to most) Korea , republic of ( south to most ) Kuwait ( will technically I'm going there in 2 days time ) Luxembourg Lao Latvia Lebanon Mauritius Mexico Malaysia Myanmar (Burma to some) Mongolia Morocco Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Norway Oman Peru Poland Portugal Philippines Qatar ( I'm here right now as I type this whilst the kids are sleeping :-) ) Russia Syria St. Lucia Sweden Switzerland San Marino Samoa Singapore Slovenia Slovakia Spain Scotland Taiwan Tonga Tibet ( though technically china ) Thailand Tanzania Turkey Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turks and Caicos United States of America United Arab Emirates Vietnam Vatican City Wales Zanzibar (ok technically it Tanzania but I needed a Z :-) ) Might have missed a couple as I'm working from memory Edited December 27, 2012 by tonyh29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Australia Austria American Samoa Belgium Bahrain Bulgaria Barbados Brunei Daruasalem Cuba Cambodia China Croatia Czech Republic Djibouti Denmark Ethiopia Egypt Ecuador Estonia England :-) Finland Fiji France Germany Gambia Greece Hungary Hong Kong Italy India Ireland Jamaica Jordan Japan ( all the J countries :-) ) Kenya Korea , democratic people's republic ( north to most) Korea , republic of ( south to most ) Kuwait ( will technically I'm going there in 2 days time ) Luxembourg Lao Latvia Lebanon Mauritius Mexico Malaysia Myanmar (Burma to some) Mongolia Morocco Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Norway Oman Peru Poland Portugal Philippines Qatar ( I'm here right now as I type this whilst the kids are sleeping :-) ) Russia Syria St. Lucia Sweden Switzerland San Marino Samoa Singapore Slovenia Slovakia Spain Scotland Taiwan Tonga Tibet ( though technically china ) Thailand Tanzania Turkey Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turks and Caicos United States of America United Arab Emirates Vietnam Vatican City Wales Zanzibar (ok technically it Tanzania but I needed a Z :-) ) Might have missed a couple as I'm working from memory You seriously been to all those?? If so holy crap!! Do you not have a residence anywhere and are just perpetually travelling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Yep done all those mostly intentionally :-) plan was to visit every country in the world .. I still might but in most likelihood when I get to 100 i'll ease off and have relaxing holidays instead :-) I.e I'm in Qatar on Hols with the family but as Kuwait is only a 90 min flight away I'm off there for a day trip in a couple of days time ( added bonus is I should get to fly on a Dreamliner and see what they are like ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reykjavik Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 I'm hoping to add Peru and Norway next year. Not sure where else yet. Maybe Brazil. You should consider to go to Denmark and then take the ferry to Oslo. 11 countries, just below average. I have visited Denmark Sweden Norway Germany Holland Belgium Luxemburg France Switzerland Italy UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Simon Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 For me, its not about the quantity of places, its the quality of time spent in each. Would be interested, for example, in how long @tonyh29 spends on average in each country. 86 in ten years is a lot of travelling, (im very jealous!), but id imagine a decent percentage is short stays in each. Personally, i'd rather immerse myself as fully as possible in one country for a month, than visit multiple places but not really learn anything. Horses for courses of course, everyone is different. (Ive visited 29, but that includes my post-College gap year. Next up, hopefully, Mother Russia...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 (edited) It's a discussion that often comes up and i posted one or two of my itineraries on here before and accept its not for everyone ....I think the only time I missed something that id have liked to have seen was at Amritsar where we didnt know about the border ceremony until after we'd visited ( the golden temple , during a holy festival as it turned out so we were the only 2 white faces amongst tens of thousands , was an amazing experience , you won't find friendlier people than Sikh's I'm sure of it ) But if you take somewhere like Agra for example , how long do you want / need to spend there ? I've known people spend days there but basically you rock up late morning have a guided tour of the red fort and then cross over to the Taj and have a tour and wait inside it to see it at sunset .... Go have a few beers , wake up at 5 am next morning load your bags into the car , get back over to the taj and see it at sunrise ( it reflects the light differently ) then on you toes around 7 and on to the next town .... Rathambone in my case and tiger safari .... Unless someone wants to count every brick they won't see anything there that I won't have !! Galapagos isles I saw penguins , a turtle giving birth on a beach , swam with sea lions and marine iguanas , got attacked by a hungry pelican , stroked lonesome George and even snorkeled with a couple of black tip sharks ... I saw just about every animal type they have there (certainly the main ones and the ones i wanted , im aware there may have been an insect or 2 i missed :-) ) in my 2.5 days there ... Why spend 7, 14 or 20 days there when you can carry on with the trip and catch a few flights to Angel falls instead as we did , and spend the night in hammocks right next to it (its an amazing sight to create you at dawn as the clouds part :-) ) Tonga we spent a day on the mainland (dull tbh ) flew up to vava'u swam with a 9 humpback whales used our back up day ( who says we dont take our time :-) )cycling around the island then carried on with the journey by heading over to Fiji to scuba dive with tiger sharks (granted we did get delayed and landed at 5am and I was in the water at 9am but i got my tiger shark encounter and a nice video to go with it :-) We even managing to then celebrate my 40th in Auckland with a heavy session got up early in the morning and did the harbour cruise before catching the flight to Apia across the dateline where I was 39 again when I landed so I could go out to celebrate turning 40 again (it was the only flight that made it possible for me to fit it in and Somoa has now moved itslef in front of the date line so its not possible anymore :-) ).. Interesting island very pretty and we even Climbed a bloody great hill in the scorching heat to see Robert Louis Stephenson's tomb ( you see , we do our homework :-) ) Anyhow you get the idea :-) we see and do a lot , we don't just fly into somewhere spend 5 mins outside the airport and turn around and leave The trick is in the planning , I spend months putting a trip together where I can optimise planes / trains and automobiles to get all the sights my mate and I want to see and move on ... It's knackering I grant you that but the quality is there 100% you just power up on beer and power naps :-) or in the case of Ulaanbater to Beijing train you make the most of the 36 hours of rest You may immerse yourself in a country and its people and fair play to you for that , but tbh we meet countless back backers on our journeys who it seems can't wait to find the nearest bar full of other back packers in what ever hip bar lonely planet is pimping ... So you may be more unique in that regard , I'd say the only difference between me and the backpackers I encounter is I don't have a guitar strapped to my back , I'm not wearing beads and I flew in rather than spending 78 hours on a local bus full of chickens and other livestock ( I did the Kathmandu to pokhara journey like this once and never again , 11 hours when I could have flown it in 40 mins , i know i had altitude sickness and it affected my judgement but I must have been bonkers !! ) Edited December 28, 2012 by tonyh29 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted December 29, 2012 Author Share Posted December 29, 2012 Impressive list Cheers... then Tony posted his list and it shit on mine Aiming to hit 50 countries by end of 2014... gives me 24 months to do 18 countries. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted December 29, 2012 Author Share Posted December 29, 2012 For me, its not about the quantity of places, its the quality of time spent in each. Would be interested, for example, in how long @tonyh29 spends on average in each country. 86 in ten years is a lot of travelling, (im very jealous!), but id imagine a decent percentage is short stays in each. Personally, i'd rather immerse myself as fully as possible in one country for a month, than visit multiple places but not really learn anything. Horses for courses of course, everyone is different. (Ive visited 29, but that includes my post-College gap year. Next up, hopefully, Mother Russia...) Certainly from my perspective, I'm not as hardcore as Tony is, but I agree with his sentiments in that some places only need a couple of days. What is the point of going to Finland or Latvia for a month? The highlights as it was can be done in a few days.Sure, I'm probably missing something but nothing that is going to cause me regret. The places I have really enjoyed, like Thailand for example, I have spent longer there (about a month in total). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 (edited) England Wales ROI France Italy Vatican City Greece Macedonia Cyprus Portugal Canada Mexico Got New York to look forward to this year and my gf and I are planning a three week trip to India, woop woop!! Edited December 30, 2012 by Tayls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BennettVilla Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Here Goes: Argentina (albeit one Day) Brazil Croatia Finland France Germany Greece Grenada Hong Kong Iceland India Italy Maldives Mauritius Mexico (Tijuana - ouch) Mozambique Portugal Saint Lucia Spain South Africa Switzerland (as im writing now) Turkey UAE UK USA (lived for 7 months) Zambia! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avflife Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 France, Italy, Spain, Holland, 4 but hoping to increase it come the Summer of 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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