How many countries have you been to ?

[gyoung]

1. US (live here)
2. Toronto, Canada
3. Metamoras, Mexico
4. Birmingham, England

SpookyEddy, can you educate a dim witted, land locked American. Is Wales technically another country? Or would it be more like a State (like California & New York) in the US. If it fits the "state" mold, what are the "states" in Great Britian.

Thanks!

[Graham]

England(home)
Austria
Germany (lived in Sylt and Hanover)
Scotland
Wales (do UK countries count ?)
France
Belgium
Holland
Sweden
Denmark
USA
Spain

And Italy for a day.

G

Gyoung

Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are countries in their own right, but very closely intergrated with England, to form the UK. N Ireland is, for some reason unknown to me, seperated from Great Britain (officially Gt. Britain and N Ireland).
We have counties (39 in England alone, they are the eqivalent of your states, we dont sub-divde further except administratively.

Government
County Councils
Local Councils (a large City, like Birmingham, will have several/ many local councils)

Look here (http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/countmap.htm)

G

[This message has been edited by Graham (edited 03-19-2001).]

[jpheg]

OK, you ready for this...?

1. USA (born there)
2. Canada
3. Nicaragua (lived there)
4. Panama
5. Mexico
6. Colombia
7. Venezuela
8. France (lived there)
9. UK (live here now)
10. Luxemburg
11. Belgium
12. Germany (back when it was West/East)
13. Italy
14. Spain
15. frmr. Yugoslavia
16. Switzerland
17. Turkey (lived there)
18. Greece
19. Israel/Palestinian Zones
20. Monaco
21. Vatican City

Yes, I too cheated. Dafremen and I have traveled out of Uncle Sam's pockets. In my case, it was tagging along with my dad on Diplomatic assignments. So, I guess you could call me a US Foreign Service Brat.

Most of the countries in W. Europe I visited during one of the many car trips our family took out of Paris during our four-year tour there. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[SpookyEddy]

Hi gyoung,

Hmm is Wales techically another country?

Well on one hand you could go to Wales and suggest that it is just another part of England, but I wouldnt suggest it unless you are very tall and a hardened Rugby fan.

I would say as far as I was concerned it is another country (own culture & heritidge) however the whole government/devolution type rubbish is confussing enough even if you only live 200 miles away, never mind the other side of the world! Perhgaps the likes of "Welsh Wizard" could shed some light on this merky area.

Regards

Eddy

[Warthog]

And I thought I would be called stupid for asking that question about Wales............but you Brits don't even know http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

Warthog

[Orly]

I was in the US Air Force

1. Germany (lived there for 2 years)
2. England (lived there for 7 years)
3. Italy (lived there for about 4 months)
4. France
5. Belgium
6. Holland
7. Wales
8. Scotland
9. Luxomborg
10. Spain
11. Portugal
12. Switzerland
13. Turkey (lived there for 5 months)
14. Austria
15. Vatican
16. Mexico
17. Canada
18. USA

I would have love to see the far east. Would have loved to visit Hong Kong before the turnover.

[barbados]

1. Canada
2. Mexico
3. Puerto Rico
4. St. Thomas
5. St. John
6. Tortolla
7. St. Croix
8. Antigua
9. Anguilla
10.Aruba
11.Barbados
12.Bonaire
13.Cayman Islands
14.Dominica
15.Grenada
16.Guadeloupe
17.Jamaica
18.Martinique
19.St. Barths
20.St. Eustatius
21.St. Kitts
22.St. Lucia
23.St Martin
24.St Maarten
25.St. Vincent
26.Trinidad
27.Turks and Caicos
28.Isla de Margarita
20.Venezuela
21.Seychelles
22.Kenya
23.Bahamas
24.Colombia
25.Panama
26.Belize
23.Madagascar

Yes, our favorite is still BARBADOS

[randy48]

Retired Army dude:

1. USA
2. Canada
3. Mexico
4. France
5. UK (London)
6. Luxembourg
7. Belgium
8. Germany (East and West)
9. Italy
10. Yugoslavia
11. Switzerland
12. Holland
13. Denmark
14. Japan
15. Korea
16. Chechosylvakia
17. Australia
18. Some strange place in the early 70's...pretty lights, weird music, strange things...

[Gomer]

I was to Canada once... but does that count?

"They're not even a real country anyway" South Park the Movie

[skywalker[TSG]]

1 denmark
2 norway
3 finland
4 estonia
5 yugoslavia
6 check repluplic
7 germany
8 france
9 holland
10 luxembourg
11 italy
12 USA
13 england
14 ireland
15 scottland
16 iceland
17 spain

[skywalker[TSG]]

gyoung>> the countries in Great brittain
1 england
2 scottland
3 ??ireland??
4 wales

[RADAR1797]

Well here goes:

Lived in:

USA
Oklahoma
Colorado
Texas
Wyoming
Georgia
Mississippi
Portugal
Azores
Germany
Berlin

Visited:
Mexico
Russia
Great Britian
Japan (Okinawa)
New Jersey
New York
Las Vegas

That about sums it up.

-RADAR

[King_Kooba_Fantastique]

Id be interested to know where you've all been http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif.

In no specific order:

[list=1]
Austria: live here
GB: London,Colchester.
France: Paris.
Italy: Milano,Rome,Venice.
ex Yoguslavia: ?.
Canary Islands: Playa del Ingles.
Syria: Damascus,Allepo,Latakia.
Lebanon: Beirut.
[/list=a]

KKF.

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[MiKe85]

Do airports count? http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

Canada
Japan
United States
Right now for me http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Mike

[SpookyEddy]

England (home)
Wales (family)
France
Spain
Morocco

Eddy

[KMBALO]

Not many countrys
Mexico (BAJA)
Canada
United States of America. I have been in every State except N. Dakota & Alaska
"I've been everywhere man!"
Finland would be my first choice since I am first generation Finn born in USA
Gloustershire (near Tewksbury) England second choice-cause , My mom's EnglishI have a friend there and free room and board

[dafremen]

Heheh I cheated, I was in the Navy on West Pac and I've been to the Gulf, so:

U.S.A.
Mexico
Canada
Guatemala
Japan
Hong Kong(China?)
Korea
Thailand
Singapore
Philipines
Australia
New Zealand
India
Saudia Arabia
Kuwait(Off of the coast!)


Maybe a few other stops that I have forgotten.

8) Daffy

[Warthog]

Hey, you guys in Europe have it easy, just a hope, skip and a jump to another country... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

US (live)
Canada

Warthog

[dafremen]

Some of you people are listing states and provinces tsk tsk tsk!

8) Daffy

[Wiruz]

Denmark (where i live)
Sweden (Was born there, but not sweedish)
Norway
Spain
Italy
England
Germany

And i've driven through France

[NDC]

I've been to Granada Hills, Panorama City, Van Nuys, Pacoima, N. Hollywood, Northridge, Burbank, Glendale, Canoga Park, Simi Valley, Moorpark, etc... Now, I'm listing cities...


Oh, yeah. I've been to Japan, Korea, Canada and Mexico too! LOL

[OuTpaTienT]

USA
Germany (West Germany at the time. Lived there for 3 years.)
France
Spain
Italy

[gyoung]

This is from www.britannica.com (http://www.britannica.com) : The names United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England are often confused, even by U.K. inhabitants. England is just one country within the kingdom. Great Britain comprises England, Wales, and Scotland, while the United Kingdom also includes Northern Ireland (although the name Britain is sometimes used to refer to the United Kingdom as a whole). Wales and England were unified politically, administratively, and legally by the acts of union of 1536 and 1542. In 1707 Scotland joined England and Wales in forming a single parliament for Great Britain, although the three countries had previously shared a monarch.

Very interesting. Here in the United States we just don't have the frame of reference.

So:
Great Britain = England, Wales, Scotland
United Kingdom = Great Britain & Northern Ireland



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[Warthog]

whoa that's confusing

[King_Kooba_Fantastique]

appreciate your posts people, its interesting and amazing to see the amount of countries some of us here have been to, i hope to reach a high number too some day, i love to travel and experience different cultures in first person, i like to make my own impression of things, not have someone tell me this country and its people are nice/good, and in this one they are bad/not nice.

I also think that people who have had the privilege to visit many countries have a much broader horizon than those who have not had this privilege. Knowing many cultures and peoples adds to ones knowledge and tolerance, plus it removes a lot of misinformation that we unfortunately have to deal with often through the biased media.

KKF.

[dafremen]

Plus we have a higher tolerance for "crappy" food than other people.

8) Daffy

P.S. "crappy" meaning food that does not taste good to someone because it is not something which they were raised to appreciate, not that the food is actually crappy!

[pickel]

At least five..Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan,
The Bronx and of course Staten Island!!!!!

[BBA]

I've been to every country in the Med...except for Iran/Iraq and the one where the goofyu raghead has a 20 mile "line of death", which we crossed many times just to tempt fate a little ( ok, we stirred the pot...). Plus Trinidad and about 1/2 dozen countries in the cuba - s.america region.


I only remember a few, as the rest where mostly armpit type civilizations ( if you call it even that ) good for nothing but beer with 'formal-dehyde' for flavor http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

Of course, thats what happens after your in the Navy for 9 years.

[Orly]

dafremen,

Well said about the food tolerance! I have eaten strange things I don't ever want to know what it really was but it tasted like chicken.

Orly

[welsh wizard]

Firstly Wales is most certainly a country, unlike the English the people of Wales are of Keltic ( also spelt Celtic by other Keltic tribes) blood, England is a mongrel mix of German, french, and some Kelts that did not move when the Saxon Angles and Jutes arrived in Briton. Scotland Ireland and Wales all have the own Language, these languages have some similarity but are different. so they qualify as languages in their own right.

as for countries Travelled to about 10 some in Europe, some in Africa, some in Asia, and then Australasia ( Oz and NZ )

BTW the Welsh consider the English inferior, and the English consider the Welsh second class inferiors, But that's mainly because the last non English army to conquer them was a Welsh Army that congregated in Brecon in Wales then went on to kick **** at Bosworth field, and since then there has never been a true English blooded King or Queen of England, (Scottish, Dutch, German, Greek and Russian blood in there http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif )

WW

[stylin19]

1 U.S.A.
2. Mexico
3. Whoever owns Jamaica
4. Japan
5. VietNam
6. Laos
7. Cambodia

oh wait..we never were officially in Laos\Cambodia...never mind on those two!

[Chief]

I cant list them all. I retired from USN. I counted them up one time, came to around 110 countries. Spent 10 year's on 5 diff ships, travelled constantly while onboard those ships. That was during my drinking days, somebody might have told me I was in some country and I wouldnt have known about it Ha!

[thekingofpain]

I too traveled by sea (born with salty blood due to my ancestors, seaman go back in my family to when there were wooden ships and iron men) I went to work aboard ships like the "Loveboat" when I was 18, worked for about 12 years straight EVERY day---Hah! hardly work they PAID me to have fun traveling the world, (I always worked in the "hotel" section of the ship) ive probably been to over 50 different countries including some pretty odd spots having put in a million miles at sea, ive seen UNREAL sights, met 1000's of incredible people (and had a 100 incredible girlfriends!?!)...life at sea is like NOTHING on earth!!! I miss it alot, it all came to an end in Japan when a leftover kamakazepilot/truckdriver anointed me with "king" status...