How many countries have you visited?
What's your nationality?

It's not about showing off. It's about assessing how well travelled various nationalities are . Business trips don't count.

I'll get the ball rolling:

- English, 30 countries

American...3...:(

American...one! (Besides the U.S., that is.)

British (being politically correct here)

3,
Sestreire, Italy.
Paris, France
Spain (cant remember where)

French.

21 :
France, UK, Eire, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Portugal (I was only 5, hardly counts), Italy, Czechoslovakia, Denmark (Legoland only !), Vatican, Austria, Switzerland, Greece, Tunisia, Ethiopia, South Africa, Thailand, Cambodia, Lao, USA.

I stopped travelling far away 4 years ago when I had my daughters but in two years I hope they will be old enough to travel with us. We plan to visit friends in Japan then. I would like to go in latin America and Africa too !

American: 34 so far

Canada, Mexico, Guam, Okinawa, Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Hong Kong, Australia, the Philippines, South Korea, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, West Germany, East Germany, West Berlin, Belgium, France, Italy, the Vatican, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, England, Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Kenya, Crete, Egypt.

American . . . 1 :( (Canada)

Originally posted by es347fan
American: 34 so far

West Germany, East Germany, West Berlin,

Hey ! That's cheating ! Or count also for me east germany and west Berlin (definitively not a country).
You still beat me. But when I reach your elderly age I hope I will outnumber you :D

American: 16 countries so far.

England, Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Luxemburg, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Canada, Mexico, and part of the Italian Riviera but never really vacationed in Italy.

On edit: next year I'm flying to China, Russia, and England (again) to conduct business.

American, 7 other countries, 47 U.S. states.

I believe I can find enough versitility in America not to leave the country again.

Originally posted by es347fan
American: 34 so far

Japan,

Dont suppose you have pictures youd be willing to share?

Originally posted by Lokideviluk
Dont suppose you have pictures youd be willing to share?

I don't know about him, but i'd be squeamish to share those photos of his flings with Tokyo's finest geishas.
bow chicka bow bow

American

Ten Countries: Canada, Mexico, Bahamas, Germany, St. Lucia, Austria, France, Switzerland, Vatican City, Italy.

Twenty five states: NY, NJ, VT, MA, RI, CT, PA, OH, MI, IL, IN, WI, MD, VA, WV, DE, NC, SC, GA, FL, HW, CA, UT, KT, TN.

Four overseas territories: Aruba, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, St. Martin.

Plan on visiting Australia and New Zealand next Fall.

Hi,

heres some photos of a few of my trips...though not all as I only went digital three years ago. Includes photos of Gorillas, Orangutans and a Jaguar. All taken in the wild.

http://www.pbase.com/spree

and heres a good forum for when you plan your next trip:
http://thorntree.lonelyplanet.com/

I have visited

1. canada
2. mexico
3. ireland
4. england
5. scotland
6. iceland (just the airport!)

so 6 total

jim

Originally posted by Bill
Hi,

heres some photos of a few of my trips...though not all as I only went digital three years ago. Includes photos of Gorillas, Orangutans and a Jaguar. All taken in the wild.


Beautiful pictures.

I remember Luang Phabang in Lao as one of favorites places (Angkor vat being another one) . When did you go there ? My trip there was in 93.

Swedish.

Somewhere between 85 and 100. It depends on whether we count (or discount) countries that have been swallowed up by the political enlargement of neighbouring countries (such as the Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda, the DDR, etc.) and those that have been newly "created" by the fall of East European communism (such as Bosnia-Herzegovina, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, ect.).

English......

Greece = 1

Spain = 2

Germany = 1

Portugal = 6

Does the Isle of Man count ???

;)

Originally posted by Catch 3
Swedish.

Somewhere between 85 and 100.

Pretty impressive.

Maybe you could just list the countries where you haven't been.

Have you visited all these places as a tourist or for work ?

Originally posted by astrapol2
Pretty impressive.

Maybe you could just list the countries where you haven't been.

Have you visited all these places as a tourist or for work ?
I travelled for several years “overland”. You know - I was a “backpacker”. I did work in some of the countries I visited: Norway (Oslo), Germany (Freiburg i.B. and Berlin), France (Annecy), Rhodesia/Zimbabwe (Salisbury/Harare), Vietnam (Tuy Hoa), Australia (Perth and Sydney), U.S.A. (Chicago, San Antonio, Albuquerque, and Duluth).

Where I haven’t been? I’ve never been to South America!

And what about you? Lille? Hmmm. It sounds like there is a good histoire to be told!

I've just been travelling as a tourist, for periods long enough to enjoy a place but not to really know the countries. I hope someday I will have time to travel for a longer duration.
What are the countries and places you liked the most ?
My best travel memories are Lao and Ethiopia. Scotland was great too but it's so damn COLD !

Boy, I'm sure jealous of you Europeans. You get to see and do so much, so easily. I wish I could just hop in my car and go to, like, 5 different countries without having to fear for my life in the process.

Originally posted by The Praetorian
Boy, I'm sure jealous of you Europeans. You get to see and do so much, so easily. I wish I could just hop in my car and go to, like, 5 different countries without having to fear for my life in the process.

Its not a big feat, a day of driving will get a European through a dozen countries, for americans it barely gets you halfway across the country. ;)

American...6

Hopefully I'll be going to Japan this year though! *Crosses Fingers*

Originally posted by The Praetorian
Boy, I'm sure jealous of you Europeans. You get to see and do so much, so easily. I wish I could just hop in my car and go to, like, 5 different countries without having to fear for my life in the process.

You're right, that's great. I live just 15 minutes away from Belgium, and even if the two countries are very similar, it's always nice to cross the border and say"I'm abroad" !
I got lost once while coming back from the shopping mall by the wrong highway, and wandered in Belgium for a few kilometers before finding my way back. You can cross the border without even noticing it.

"Its not a big feat, a day of driving will get a European through a dozen countries, for americans it barely gets you halfway across the country. "

Halfway? Apparently you've never crossed Texas!

Originally posted by astrapol2
What are the countries and places you liked the most ?
My best travel memories are Lao and Ethiopia. Scotland was great too but it's so damn COLD !
Yeah! Scotland is nearly as cold as Sweden, the difference being that we’ve got central heating, double-glazing, and insulated plumbing. :D

My favourite countries are Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia and Tunisia, Kenya, Botswana.

But they've got ghosts and haggis. Makes one forget it's so cold.

Originally posted by astrapol2
But they've got ghosts and haggis. Makes one forget it's so cold.
"Forget the cold"? I recon the mere stench of simmering hagis would make you forget EVERYTHING you've ever known and make one contemplate joining the community of ghosts on a voluntary basis! :@@: :alien:

Halfway? Apparently you've never crossed Texas!

It takes about twenty four hours to get half-way across the country. I only had to stop once when driving to Kansas City from Atlanta, and by then I only had a few states to go.

The point is, Nap, that traveling from El Paso to Jasper, Texas, will almost take you 20 hours if you obey the speed limit. Have you ever driven across it? Es isn't lying.

I been around...



And everywhere I went, I met Americans who never SAW nuthin'...



"People only see what they WANT to see..."--Chris Boyce




www. had-i-the-money,i'd-spend-MOST-of-my-time-travelin',i-s'pose .edu

You know, I was thinking about what everybody’s saying and I don’t know if I completely agree about Americans being so terribly disadvantaged.

All that talk about Texas got me thinking about “south of the border”. You can drive through Mexico and on to Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Theoretically, you can continue on to South America but I doubt the roads are that well kept. Travelling through Central America may not be as culturally diverse as doing the same thing through Europe but it is not too shabby a journey, that’s for sure!

If you’re adventurous and really serious about travel, you ought to read “The Old Patagonian Express” by Paul Theroux. He did the journey from East Coast U.S.A. through South America by train - and you can do it too.

In 1973/74 I hitch-hiked from the U.S. through El Paso and down to Puebla de Zaragoza (just beyond Mexico City) and then I took the train from there to Veracruz. It wasn’t all too exciting as far as Mexico City - but that short distance (but long in duration) train journey through the banana-growing mountains was an unexpectedly stunning experience! From the dry, arid flats of Puebla, up into the mountain jungle and then finally descending into the gay, mariachi sea-port City of Veracruz. Wow!

Adventure is available to anyone who meets the challenge, so come on you couch potatoes. Shut off the computer, fire up the Studebaker, and get movin’! :) :thumbs:

if you obey the speed limit.

Who does?

That's true...:D

American- 8

Somalia
Egypt
Haiti
France
Netherlands
Germany
Canada
Panama

US State:

CA
NV
AZ
MT
UT
ID
WY
CO
NM
TX
HI
WA
OR
NY
GA
PA
IL


And living in eurpoe and counting the european countries is kind of weak. You can drive a few hours in one direction and hit like 5 countries. In the time it takes me to drive from LA to SF, all within the state of California, I could drive across eurpoe and back again.

I am Canadian and have travelled to 4 different countries:

USA
Mexico
Grand Cayman
Cuba

I have also visited the following states and have lived in Colorado.

North Dakota
South Dakota
Montana
Nevada
Colorado
California
Washington
Washington DC
Gerogia
Florida
Louisiana
Texas
New Mexico
Ohio
Connicicut
Michigan
New York
Utah
Idaho
Wyoming
Arizona
Oklahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
Wisconson
Illinois
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
South Carolina
North Carolina
Virginia

Originally posted by Travh20


And living in eurpoe and counting the european countries is kind of weak. You can drive a few hours in one direction and hit like 5 countries. In the time it takes me to drive from LA to SF, all within the state of California, I could drive across eurpoe and back again.

OK Travh, I'm moving to Australia to even things !