How many countries have you visited? (Ranking)

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Wed May 24, 2006 5:43 pm

Phaseolus wrote:
lazza wrote: What took you so long? :wink:
Aron can't swin AND is afraid to take the boat ! :wink:

Who uses boats (or even planes) anymore now that there's the Chunnel? But maybe Aron was also afraid of the dark :D

eddydevries · Post by **eddydevries** » Wed May 24, 2006 11:20 pm

I'm from the Netherlands.

Been on holidays to these countries:

the Netherlands

Germany

Belgium

France
Switzerland

Austria

Italy

Greece
United Kingdom

Ireland
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Iceland
Greenland (or must I count this towards Denmark?)
Canada
USA

Euronotes I registred from:

the Netherlands

Belgium

(No more, because I only participated in February this year).

EuroNederweert · Post by **EuroNederweert** » Thu May 25, 2006 10:29 am

I'm from the Netherlands

Countries I've been in
The Netherlands (of course

)
Belgium
Germany
France
Switserland
Austria
Italy

Craft · Post by **Craft** » Thu May 25, 2006 11:16 am

For me, not so many. Apart from Finland, these:

1.Sweden
2. Norway
3. Russia (& Soviet Union)
4. Estonia
5. Latvia
6. Denmark
7. Germany
8. Netherlands
9. Luxemburg
10. Belgium
11. France
12. UK (England only)
13. Libya

ElBarto · Post by **ElBarto** » Thu May 25, 2006 2:24 pm

Apart from Germany:

1. Switzerland
2. Austria
3. France
4. Netherlands
5. Belgium
6. UK
7. Hungary
8. Slovenia
9. Slovakia
10. Czech Republic
11. Hungary
12. Croatia
13. Bosnia And Herzigovina
14. Serbia and Montenegro

aron · Post by **aron** » Thu May 25, 2006 5:43 pm

Dakkus wrote:
Phaseolus wrote:
lazza wrote: What took you so long?
Aron can't swin AND is afraid to take the boat !
Who uses boats (or even planes) anymore now that there's the Chunnel? But maybe Aron was also afraid of the dark

After all these years I finaly took the ferry from Calais to Dover

and yes I was a littlebit seasick,

but I don't have any regrets

Phaseolus · Post by **Phaseolus** » Thu May 25, 2006 8:00 pm

Dakkus wrote:Who uses boats (or even planes) anymore now that there's the Chunnel? But maybe Aron was also afraid of the dark

By the way, looking at the price of the Chunnel or the Eurostar, planes or boats are still an option !

lazza · Post by **lazza** » Fri May 26, 2006 12:58 pm

The Channel Tunnel is expensive, and to be honest, it's only any good if you live in the South East of England.... it takes me 4-5 hours to get to London Waterloo, so not much use to me.

I prefer to fly, or take an overnight ferry from the North of England (Newcastle or Hull)

Phaseolus · Post by **Phaseolus** » Fri May 26, 2006 1:38 pm

lazza wrote: it's only any good if you live in the South East of England....

Or in the North of France...

It's the second year that I've tried to bring my family over to Uk or Ireland for a holiday, and if you want to bring the car + wife and children with you over there, it's a very expensive trip : for example : Britanny

Ireland is +/- 1100 € for the ferry... And this only includes the journey ! Add a 600-800 € per week for a cottage ; it beomes really expensie. With this money we prefer to rent a house somewhere on the continent and have some money left for dothunting

Mako · Post by **Mako** » Fri May 26, 2006 2:08 pm

I live in Finland and I have visited the following countries:
Finland
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Iceland
Soviet Union (1988)
Russia
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
West Germany (1979-1988)
East Germany (1988)
Germany
Czechoslovakia (1979-2002)
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Austria
Switzerland
Lichtenstein
Ireland
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
France
Spain
Portugal
Italy
Vatican state
Greece
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia (1986-88 )
Romania
Croatia
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Serbia-Montenegro
Serbia (Oct 2006)
FYROM (Oct 2006)
Albania (Oct 2006)
Hungary
Turkey
Morocco
Tunisia
India
Nepal
Malaysia
Thailand
Laos
U.S.A. (including United Nations in N.Y.C.)
Cuba

TOTAL 46 (+ 5 countries that don't exist any longer)

eurojuanmi · Post by **eurojuanmi** » Fri May 26, 2006 10:15 pm

Mako wrote:I live in Finland and I have visited the following countries:
Finland
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Iceland
Soviet Union (1988)
Russia
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
West Germany (1979-1988)
East Germany (1988)
Germany
Czechoslovakia (1979-2002)
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Austria
Switzerland
Lichtenstein
Ireland
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
France
Spain
Portugal
Italy
Vatican state
Greece
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia (1986-88 )
Romania
Croatia
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Serbia-Montenegro
Hungary
Turkey
Morocco
Tunisia
India
Nepal
Malaysia
Thailand
Laos
U.S.A. (including United Nations in N.Y.C.)
Cuba

TOTAL 43 (+ 5 countries that don't exist any longer)

I don´t know if I have to put 43 or 48, because West Germany, East Germany and Germany are "similars", and Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic and Slovakia too

Klazu · Post by **Klazu** » Sat May 27, 2006 8:51 am

eurojuanmi wrote:I don´t know if I have to put 43 or 48

43 is the only reasonable value to me. Those few countries are the same (same cities etc.) so I wouldn't count them twice.

Divine · Post by **Divine** » Sun May 28, 2006 4:04 pm

^^^ It's just a matter of the point of view. In my opinion they're definitely different countries. Czech is not Slovakia is not Czechoslovakia.

Miles66 · Post by **Miles66** » Sun May 28, 2006 8:13 pm

Hello,

my visited countries till now (i'm from

)

01...Austria
02...Belgium
03...Canada
04...Cuba
05...Dominican Republic
06...Egypt
07...France
08...Greece
09...Ireland
10...Jamaica
11...Kenya
12...Luxembourg
13...Maldives
14...Netherlands
15...Spain
16...Switzerland
17...Tunisia
18...Turkey
19...United Kingdom
20...USA
21...Germany
22...(German Democratic Republic)

Craft · Post by **Craft** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:43 pm

Divine wrote:^^^ It's just a matter of the point of view. In my opinion they're definitely different countries. Czech is not Slovakia is not Czechoslovakia.

IMHO, I'd mostly agree on this. Think about this example: I have visited the Soviet Union, but not all the parts that it used to cover. For example, I didn't visit the Estonian or Latvian territories during the Soviet time. Now that Estonia and Latvia are independent again, I have been to both of them. Should I not count Estonia and Latvia as separate countries because they used to be parts of the Soviet Union?

OTOH, the matter may be a little more complicated in certain cases. On my list I counted Russia and the Soviet Union as one country, because I visited such parts of the Soviet Union that were and are on the Russian territory. Similarly, I'd say that if you visited Prag but not Bratislava in the Czechoslovakian era, and now go to both of those cities, it might be righteous to count Czechoslovakia and Czech republic as one country and Slovakia as another.