rach 1 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Definitely. I always enjoy going back to family and getting a dose of UK once a year. And the odd other place I go to. I always enjoy coming back to Japan though. Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Only 6 for me but as I get older I'm getting the urge to step out a bit more. My big dream is to travel by overland expedition on secondary and tertiary roads.....basically off-road. One of the reasons I'm going quite big on my new LandCruiser build. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Only 6 for me but as I get older I'm getting the urge to step out a bit more. My big dream is to travel by overland expedition on secondary and tertiary roads.....basically off-road truckin'. One of the reasons I'm going quite big on my new large truck. Link to post Share on other sites
davidnoble 0 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 46. New Zealand Australia Jordon Egypt Israel England Scotland Wales Ireland Northern Ireland Netherlands Belgium Italy The Vatican Greece Macedonia Kosovo Serbia Croatia Slovenia France Spain Portugal Austria Switzerland Germany Denmark Russia Poland Czech Republic USA Canada Mexico Barbados Saint Vincent and The Grenadines Hong Kong China Japan South Korea Singapore Malaysia Thailand Phillipines Cambodia Laos Vietnam Link to post Share on other sites
NECK 14 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Too many to count/remember Definitely less than 54 though Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Based on the people I met in far off places Kiwis and Aussies would probably have a high average. I would have thought it's easiest for Europeans to rack up high numbers relatively easily with so many countries all so close together. We Aussies have to travel almost further than the enire size of Europe just to get to the next country! Link to post Share on other sites
7-11 2 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 54 yikes that is impressive. You must have lots of unusable coins lying around! Link to post Share on other sites
onehunga 26 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Somewhere packed away in a box is a collection of coins and low value banknotes. A lot of time though I had no money of my own, just the bosses money, so everything was changed at each border, so that we ended up back at base with only pounds or dollars. Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Back in the Uk I have lots of old Drakmahs pesatos yugo money German money Austrian money etc as well as money from all other countries I have been. A lot of Europe is boring with the Euro so was happy rhat Latvia and Lithuania still have their own money. Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Only 6 for me but as I get older I'm getting the urge to step out a bit more. My big dream is to travel by overland expedition on secondary and tertiary roads.....basically off-road truckin'. One of the reasons I'm going quite big on my new large truck. Haha....Wouldn't have to worry about what to take on the trip.....just get my house lifted into the bucket and take everything along... Dig the sign, too... Link to post Share on other sites
onehunga 26 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Based on the people I met in far off places Kiwis and Aussies would probably have a high average. I would have thought it's easiest for Europeans to rack up high numbers relatively easily with so many countries all so close together. We Aussies have to travel almost further than the enire size of Europe just to get to the next country! But because Kiwis and Aussies have to travel so far, in the past at least, we have tended to travel more once we get there (ie base in London and travel Europe or Africa) and stay away longer. Both of which can lead to high numbers of countries visited, and a tendency to not go home. Probably because of the language issue, or just using the same guide books, I met up with way more Aussie and Kiwis while travelling privately, in Asia and Northern Africa. (although Sri Lanka was full of large, older Germans who all seemed to have very young "girlfriends", however being in the middle a civil war may have scarced away other tourists) Have no idea therefore about how much they travel. Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Most of my extended travelling was done in the 90's when the Aussie dollar wasn't so high and Aussies weren't so cashed up so I didn't meet that many other Aussies on my travels. It was mostly Europeans and Nth Americans. Link to post Share on other sites
onehunga 26 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 I left NZ Dec 87, got back to NZ Dec 93, and spent most of my time with Aussies and South Africians. The companies I worked for employed lots of Kiwis, Aussies and South Africians, and most of the punters were from NZ, Oz and SA. My travelling was helped by someone else paying for it, although the first 9 months were using my own NZ dollars, and they didn't go far. Much easier to travel privately once earning pounds. When working in Europe, the few Americans that came on the tours, always did seem to have a lot more spending money than the poor Aussies and Kiwis. Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Most of my travelling was in developing countries in those days. I could spend many months away on bugger all money. I spent nearly 6 months in Sth America on only $3000. I managed to find places to stay for as little as 50 cents a night. I did run out of money completely at the end. Didn't even have enough money to pay the departure tax at the airport. Ah those were the days... Link to post Share on other sites
Mantas 3 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 OK you win. Don't think there is anything to win. Besides your list looks pretty good. On your list you have Italy, did you go to Rome and vist The Vatican, it's a country. What about Monaco? Your travels seem to include most central European countries, so can you include Luxemburg and Liechtenstein. I include them because I drove though them so many times. even though it only took 20 minutes to get though Liechtenstein. That's the first time I've ever actually counted them. I thought it would be more actually. I spent a lot of time (years) travelling but stayed in places for quite a while, so it seems like I did more. Sounds like you did the ol London-Capetown overland eh? Link to post Share on other sites
onehunga 26 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 OK you win. Don't think there is anything to win. Besides your list looks pretty good. On your list you have Italy, did you go to Rome and vist The Vatican, it's a country. What about Monaco? Your travels seem to include most central European countries, so can you include Luxemburg and Liechtenstein. I include them because I drove though them so many times. even though it only took 20 minutes to get though Liechtenstein. That's the first time I've ever actually counted them. I thought it would be more actually. I spent a lot of time (years) travelling but stayed in places for quite a while, so it seems like I did more. Sounds like you did the ol London-Capetown overland eh? No, not London Capetown, did Kathmandu-Cairo-Nairobi-London with Encounter Overland, then worked for them for a while, office mostly and Europe, with some time in Asia and Northern Africa Link to post Share on other sites
Mantas 3 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Most of my travels were done back in the 80's and 90's too. Young people today have no idea what it was like back then. No mobiles, no internet cafes, no internet, no email, no facebook.. .just a few letters to mum every month or so and often nobody knew where you were. Sometimes even I didn'know where I was Link to post Share on other sites
onehunga 26 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Most of my travels were done back in the 80's and 90's too. Young people today have no idea what it was like back then. No mobiles, no internet cafes, no internet, no email, no facebook.. .just a few letters to mum every month or so and often nobody knew where you were. Sometimes even I didn'know where I was I know what you mean. My Mum once sent a letter, which eventually found me, and said if I didn't reply she was going to get the Embassy to find me. By the time the postcards home from a country arrived, I was two or three countries further into the tour. Looking back life would certainly have been easier with Internet and mobiles. Having to find a phone or telex machine (if you are under 30 look it up on wikipedia) to report problems, or ask for money was a pain. Link to post Share on other sites
seemore 66 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Australia New Zealand Indonesia Malaysia Thailand England Scotland Wales France Belgium Switzerland Austria Italy Yugoslavia Spain Portugal Gibraltar ? Czech Replublic Hungary Holland Romania Japan South Africa Zimbabwe Thats around 20 Pales into insignificance compared to 54 but not bad Link to post Share on other sites
seemore 66 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Yeah most was done in the 90's Great time to Link to post Share on other sites
box of frogs 0 Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 Just 4 for me Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 Let's see, going east from the International Date Line, roughly: USA (Hawaii, Mainland) Canada Ireland UK (England, Scotland) Spain France Netherlands Denmark Germany Switzerland Italy Vatican City USSR China Indonesia Singapore Macau (pre-handover) Hong Kong (pre-handover) Taiwan South Korea Japan USA (Guam) Never been to the southern hemisphere... maybe some day? Link to post Share on other sites
HeatherLocklearRocks 1 Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 Australia New Zealand Guam Japan! US UK Germany South Korea Link to post Share on other sites
stemik 14 Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 In order from birth England Wales Greece Singapore New Zealand Australia India Holland France Italy West Germany Denmark Norway Belgium Austria Liechtenstein Switzerland Northern Ireland East Germany Canada Saudi Arabia Iraq Kuwait Spain America Mexico Fiji Samao Cook Islands Japan Thailand Korea Macau/China (most beautiful girls) Ireland Sweden Finland Russia Czech South Africa Scotland Zambia Ecuador (for about 14 hours) Hungary Latvia Lithuania Slovenia Croatia Ukraine (worst) Kazakhstan Might have missed one or two. You can probably guess my first job! Link to post Share on other sites
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