Countries

[Peurala]

Okay so what countries have you been to ? What was the best in them, + what countries youd like to go to and what for. Anything really. =D Just random topic i felt like starting. Popped into my head after a lil chat in vent lastnight with Tate,Denis and Arron.

Myself, i been to sweden quite a few times, once in england, and once in estonia.

England i, myself enjoyed the most, not weatherwise though 'cause knowing england it was raining quite abit, but the prices are way cheaper than over here in finland, and alot more in stores to choose from + the people are way more kind and talkative, then again at times it can be a lil awkward knowing i'm a finn we have different ways here. And englands quite different after all.

- Hope there isn't another thread like this, or i can feel myself like a fail once again ;D

Edited December 8, 2011 by Peurala 1st MRB

[Vatsia]

i only have been in closest ones sweden and norway .

and someday i want to go in america and japan

[Peurala]

i only have been in closest ones sweden and norway .

and someday i want to go in america and japan

Oh yeh biggest dream is to go to America!!!

[Parker 1st MRB]

- I've been all over Canada

- USA many times

- Mexico a few times

- Austria

- Germany

- Switzerland

- Hungary

- Italy

- Cuba

- Trinidad and Tobago

I want to go to asia soon.

[Branem 1st MRB]

Norway - I live here. Now there is alot of things i dont like about my country, or rather about the way my country is run.

But focuseing on the good things the way it is run also brings with it alot of positive things like:

free helthcare, good education system and in general its a safe country to live in. I like our culture, altho we

are a "closed" people. We dont talk much with people we dont know. And i love our nature. I recommend one

of our best beers, Nøgne Ø

Denmark - My mother is half Danish so half of my family lives there, and Ive lived there aswell. I love the people there,

the food (omg!), the prices in general and the beer. I can recommend Copenhagen.

Sweden - Been there on vacation and driven over the border to shop for cheap meat and booze. (its a two hour drive

from where I live). I can recommend their "Snus"

Egypt - Went to Sharm El Sheik. Hated the hotel food, but the local food was great! I can recommend going to a local

fish-restaurant!

Italy - Went to Sicily. Great local food and spent a day at the sixth best beach in Europe, Scopello. I can absolutely recomend that! And yes, we did run into the mafia!

Croatia - Went on holiday to a little village two hours from Split. I can recomend the beer, the prices (omg everything is sooo cheap!) and

the people. Not the food tho'. Other than that I absolutely loved it!

Turkey - Went there for my 18'th birthday. Loong time ago, so all i realy can remember is the insane heat, getting my

first tattoo and a great outdoor club with a huge lazer-show

I dream of some time get the chance to go to England and America!

[Takel 1st MRB]

I've been to (excluding UK):

France a few times (both the northern area and the southern area, they're like two completely different countries)

been to America (minneapolis) for about an hour on the way to....

Canada, which is amazing.

I want to go to:

Canada again, haven't been for many years.

Ireland, because why not

The scandinavian countries and the baltic countries

Russia (no idea why, would just be fun)

Nigeria, Rwanda and South Africa

Japan

Tibet

Australia

New Zealand

Still not sure if i have enough here though

[J. Anderson 1st MRB]

ive been to finland Åland i few times and Tunisia i want to go to United states some day

[Jankovski]

All over Serbia

-Germany

-Austria

-Czech Republic

-Hungary

-Bosnia

-Croatia

-Montenegro

-Macedonia(ofc since my family is from there)

Wanna go to Canada ,Cuba and Australia and my dreams would be fullfiled

[Cantin 1st MRB]

CANAADDAAAAAAAa(mostly quebec!)

all USA east coast, buffalo,boston,

cuba

wanna go to Europe and Asia someday..maybe ill do my internship there!

[Peurala]

ppl here been traveling alot it seems, i wish to travel more aswell.

[Cantin 1st MRB]

i cant wait to go on ur side of earth

[Lafy BAR]

Canada and USA

One year ago I had never been outside Canada and the USA. I had been to a bunch of eastern Canada, NYC a couple times, other places in the states.

Mexico

Last December I went to Cancun which was a huge change from what I'm used to, and frankly I hated it. I stayed in the city instead of a huge resort, which was a mistake. I would only ever stay in a beach front hotel if I went back. But regardless of that I had more or less decided that poor places suck. Everywhere I went in the area I was constantly being harassed to buy shitty stuff with city names written on it. I did find some things I liked. Good food sometimes, very bad sometimes, weird crazy markets where the locals shop, the most screwed up badly wired dangerous electrical meters probably anywhere in the world. On a whole it was interesting, but the near-endless harassment by tourist-junk-merchants really ruins the place.

By the way, if you're going to Cancun I would check out the Island, Isla Mujeres, still has the crap-merchants, but on a smaller scale and the beach front hotels aren't the mega-resorts.

This September I toured around Europe a bit with some of my family and it was awesome. Mostly eastern Europe. Turns out it wasn't poor places that suck, it's just Mexico.

Turkey

I started out in Istanbul which is an amazing city. I would go back any time the chance comes up. I think I could live there. It's by far the busiest place I've ever been. The mosques are so cool. There's still a massive culture of trying to sell people shit, but it's in thousand year old sprawling buildings built over hundreds of years.... and the stuff isn't tourist shit, it's just normal stuff. The markets are full of locals negotiating for shit, which makes them really interesting places.

Serbia

After Istanbul we headed to Novi Sad just outside Belgrade where my sister-in-law has family. Almost every Serb there seemed to have their own acre of grape vines for making wine and liquor. Life seems to revolve around meat and drinking. In the city there's a huge pedestrian area full of cafes and old Austrian buildings, with the odd hideous communist building mixed in. Life there seems pretty good. Wake up, eat piles of cured meats and yogurt, drink some liquor if you want... eat fruit straight off of trees... water the grapes if needed... go hang out in town at a cafe... come back home and get drunk and party into the night. That might not be the typical day for everyone... but it was awfully common.

After that we went into Belgrade for a few days, which was very interesting. The Serbs have this understandable obsession with the war and NATO having bombed them. Everywhere you go it's still at the front of people's minds. As we rode around in taxi cabs the drivers would always point out this or that building which was bombed by NATO which they aren't fixing because it's a symbol of what NATO did to them. I didn't get to see it, but I kept hearing about some office building that's half gone and looks like it's about to fall over. Still no plans to fix it or take it down. My 3 year old niece was told by a 5 year old boy that he didn't want to play with her at the park when he found out that she's Canadian because that means she bombed him. The whole experience was very unusual for me. Of course, I only spent a very small time talking to anyone about this and most of the time it was going to bars and cafes!

Bosnia

My sister-in-law was born in Sarajevo, so that was our next stop. The city couldn't be more different than Belgrade. Sarajevo is pinched between two mountains so the area of the city has been limited by that. Through the valley is a dense busy downtown. We got there Saturday night and every alley was packed full of young people out at little clubs and cafes that were hidden away in behind the stores. The scale of everything there is remarkably small. The downtown isn't made up of huge buildings with parking and offices. Mostly it's one storey buildings with shops in front and restaurants down every alley. It seemed like every business there was thriving because they didn't have the room for failing businesses. I don't think you could have a single fat person there because of the mountains. My brother and I tried walking to the top of the mountain one day. It was an hour long hike going up about 45 degrees along winding streets with houses packed in everywhere a house would fit. We luckily chose the smaller of the two mountains. Once as high as we could get the other peaks still towered above us. Just getting to our hotel one block from downtown was a fair climb. probably about 200 yards vertically.

Netherlands

After the mountainous Sarajevo Amsterdam was a welcome grade. Flat. The only bumps are the bridges. What an intensely quaint city. I honestly feel like the building codes there have a required minimum quaintness factor. All the little brick buildings lining the canals makes it feel like no matter where you go you must be on the cutest street in the city. If most places publish books about all the nicest buildings they have I think Amsterdam could get away with a book of the 50 buildings not to look at. The city has an amazing modern art museum, if you're into that kinda thing.... which I am. I didn't make it to the Van Gogh or Rembrant museums, which in hindsight I shouldn't have missed. Oh well, reasons to go back! You'll all be disappointed in me, I didn't smoke any weed. Sorry, I don't smoke. Also the weather sucked and they have little metal fences you stand behind to pee into the canal... wtf?

So that's everywhere I've been... I must have been to around 100 cafes in 3 weeks... I guess I'm a patio tourist.

[Peurala]

i cant wait to go on ur side of earth

Stay away Cantin ;D

[Frantz]

Farthest ive ever been away from VA is Hawaii.

[Cantin 1st MRB]

Stay away Cantin ;D

yeah yeah uuuu wish

[Gooderham 1st MRB]

This September I toured around Europe a bit with some of my family and it was awesome. Mostly eastern Europe. Turns out it wasn't poor places that suck, it's just Mexico.

I respectfully disagree. It sounds like you had a crappy experience. Mexico is amazing if you are willing to just hang out and do what the locals do.

[Sarsons]

CANADA end of discussion

[Petri]

Been to Canada and of course the west coast US.

Where I want to go Japan, All the UK, Germany, Ukraine, Romania, Italy, and Some of the Scandinavian Countries.

I'm still waiting for Santa to bring me my damn plane tickets.

[S. Richards]

Been to: Iraq for obvious reasons, Ireland, Germany and thats about it. Would love to go to Germany again, plan on visiting the Netherlands and eventually moving there down the road. Would like to visit Russia and thats about it.

[Dillon 1st MRB]

In Canada, I've been to British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.

Mexico, I've been to Baja California a few times. Tijuana a few times. Cabo, Mazatlan and Puerta Vallarta.

Costa Rica - Amazing place, but really hot in August. ~110 degrees + 100% humidity.

Ireland - Dublin, and then drove to Lough Rea and saw my family's historic castle outside of Athlone.

I've been all through the Western U.S. Shoot, I've been in or driven through something like 19 Western States, Washington D.C., Boston, MA, and a silly little beach in New Hampshire.

[Cantin 1st MRB]

In Canada, I've been to British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.

Mexico, I've been to Baja California a few times. Tijuana a few times. Cabo, Mazatlan and Puerta Vallarta.

Costa Rica - Amazing place, but really hot in August. ~110 degrees + 100% humidity.

Ireland - Dublin, and then drove to Lough Rea and saw my family's historic castle outside of Athlone.

I've been all through the Western U.S. Shoot, I've been in or driven through something like 19 Western States, Washington D.C., Boston, MA, and a silly little beach in New Hampshire.

you should come in Montreal ! Great place! Good food, Wonderfull Womens!

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

Been to: Canada (Vancover, BC is just a few hours away anyways) and Japan (Tokyo, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Miyajima, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka, Nishi-Niporri, Yokohama, Enoshima, Nikko)

Want to go to: England, Germany, France, Italy, (All around Europe, really), Australia, Mexico, Korea, and maybe China.

[Englebretson 1st MRB]

Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Mexico, Bahamas, England, France, Germany, Spain are places I have been. Place I would like to visit are Italy, Korea, Japan, Caribbean Islands, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Brazil.

[Jones 1st MRB]

Been to:- France, Belguim, Spain, Majorca, Portugal, Greece, Philippines.

Want to visit. US, Canada, Thailand, Singapore, Japan, China, Egypt.

[Peaker]

I've been to:

Canada: Travelled extensively through Quebec for hiking purposes, though i've not been in the north much. I toured Nova Scotia, Prince-Edward Island and New-Brunswick a while ago. British Columbia to see my father's family (Damn BC is awesome, wonderful mountains, and Vancouver is the cleanest and healthiest city i've ever seen if you take out the junkies, which mostly hang around a single street corner anyway).

USA: I've been to Boston and I loved it, so much history in that place! I also had a quick trip to Maine in order to gas up . I'm buying my plane ticket for california this April, so it's going to be awesome, i'm really looking forward to it, and me and my buddy will even do a short trip to Vegas.

United Kingdom: My latest big trip, I spent a month there touring England (Even spent 3 days in Edinburgh, Scotland. Most beautiful architecture i've seen in my life, it's breathtaking), I adored it and I would love to go again, the beer is cheap and good, the people are mostly nice if you know how to handle them, and there's so much that i've not seen even in a month. Also, if you'd like to check out some of my pictures from my trip, I have fairly good ones, so feel free to send me a message.

This Summer: Given this will be my last summer as a civilian, i'm considering going on another trip. I narrowed it down to four countries, Italy, France, Spain and Ukraine, for a month long voyage, but I don't know which to pick . Feel free to give advice.