How many countries have you visited?

[King Herald]

I can't be bothered doing the tedious long list that NOBODY will read, but last count was 48 countries, about ten years ago. Haven't counted since, but I think Mexico and Canada were added.

A half dozen were just airport in and out, so don't count, but most were from a few days up to years working and/ or living there. I lived in Thailand three years, two in Singapore, and about 15 in the Philippines.

I have 8 passports, six are full, 1 is nearly full, and still current, the latest one is nigh on empty and used as a backup when working in unsavory countries.

When I was working offshore Asia I could get through up to ten pages in one trip, transiting, port call, work visa, exit visa, sail off to another country, same again, for 10 or 12 weeks.

All done now, I retired early a year ago, and now living back in the UK.

[djc206]

UK
France
Germany
Spain
Greece
Croatia
Italy
Cyprus
Sweden
Portugal
Egypt
Jordan
UAE
Iceland
USA
Curacao
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Bahamas
India
Nepal
Bhutan
New Zealand
Japan
Singapore
Vietnam
Malaysia
South Africa
Mauritius
Morocco

30 total and I'm 30.

Driven through Belgium, Luxembourg, Andorra and Austria if you want to count them. Flew through St Maarten but never disembarked so not counting that either.

[ChasW]

anomie said:

Robertj21a said:

Correction - Blinking amazing for a Yank.

Do you go back home and try to explain that there are other countries, and people, outside the USA ?



[apologies for British sense of humour!]

Please don't apologise for British humour. Considering the weather, the food, and the teeth, its pretty much the only thing ya'll have going for you.

...but No. I moved to Yorkshire instead and haven't traveled nearly as much ever since. To be fair to my ex-people, A lot of Americans do go to a lot of different states and they are fairly culturally/geographically diverse so not really much different to someone from the UK who has mainly traveled in Europe. I've also met my fair share of inward sort over here. My favourite was a fellow at a dog trial in the Dales..His last "foreign" holiday was when his wife made him go to the Lake District 30 year ago. Hasn't been out of Yorkshire since. (Proposition: Yorkshire is to the UK as Texas is to USA?)

So true. Having lived in both Yorkshire and Texas myself. I was once having a drink in a hotel in Grassington. A local makes conversation with me and ask where I have travelled from. At the time I lived in London. I asked if he had ever been to the smoke. He replied "no", the furthest he had ever travelled was to Leeds, once, with no intention of ever returning. In Texas the locals used to ask which part of New England I was from.

[djc206]

nonsequitur said:

Iva Barchetta said:

I'm over 50yo and have never left Europe.......not sure I'm that bothered about that.

UK
France
Italy
Germany
Belgium
The Netherlands
Austria
Switzerland
Luxembourg
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Finland

Think that's it.....not even Spain.

You're right, stay within Europe. Think of all that jet lag, nights out of bed etc. of us world travellers.

Go to South Africa no jet lag there!

Seriously though we Europeans judge yanks for never leaving their country but forget it's the size of our continent. It might not be linguistically diverse but having travelled east to west and north to south in the US it's culturally diverse. I can't wait to go back to Texas among other places in October, I'm politically liberal but I love the place and the people and crucially the food. Americans get a lot wrong but they get a lot more right

[jamoor]

djc206 said:

Go to South Africa no jet lag there!

Seriously though we Europeans judge yanks for never leaving their country but forget it's the size of our continent. It might not be linguistically diverse but having travelled east to west and north to south in the US it's culturally diverse. I can't wait to go back to Texas among other places in October, I'm politically liberal but I love the place and the people and crucially the food. Americans get a lot wrong but they get a lot more right

You can experience alot more diversity driving around the European continent though,

[djc206]

jamoor said:

You can experience alot more diversity driving around the European continent though,

Of course but it's a hell of a lot easier in many ways to drive around the US and time and distance wise it's comparable. There's so much geographical diversity in the states that's there's really no need for many to leave. You can go from the beach to the slopes to the city in a day, why fly thousands of miles?

[Iva Barchetta]

Big disadvantage of driving all over Europe is the huge pile of phrase books I have to carry....

I've got one applicable to every country I listed, with the exception of Flemish.

[djc206]

Iva Barchetta said:

Big disadvantage of driving all over Europe is the huge pile of phrase books I have to carry....

I've got one applicable to every country I listed, with the exception of Flemish.

Precisely at least in the states they mostly speak something vaguely resembling English.

[nonsequitur]

King Herald said:

I can't be bothered doing the tedious long list that NOBODY will read, but last count was 48 countries, about ten years ago. Haven't counted since, but I think Mexico and Canada were added.

A half dozen were just airport in and out, so don't count, but most were from a few days up to years working and/ or living there. I lived in Thailand three years, two in Singapore, and about 15 in the Philippines.

I have 8 passports, six are full, 1 is nearly full, and still current, the latest one is nigh on empty and used as a backup when working in unsavory countries.

When I was working offshore Asia I could get through up to ten pages in one trip, transiting, port call, work visa, exit visa, sail off to another country, same again, for 10 or 12 weeks.

All done now, I retired early a year ago, and now living back in the UK.

No tedious list, What a spoilsport. Such an interesting thread too.

Edited by nonsequitur on Friday 3rd February 20:11

[so called]

Since January I've seen France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, India and the USA.
The jet lag is killing me after the flights Hyderabad, Delhi, Frankfurt, Philadelphia, San Francisco.
After 6 days on the US west coast I'm now back in Philly for a couple days before heading home.
In two weeks I need to do the same all over again.

Also visited Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Portugal, Singapore, Australia and Japan.

Edited by so called on Wednesday 1st February 21:46

[brickwall]

brickwall said:

brickwall said:

brickwall said:

I clearly have some catching up to do.

UK
France
Italy
Spain
Switzerland
Germany
Austria
Greece
Turkey
Croatia
Slovenia
Ireland
Russia
The Netherlands
Trinidad and Tobago
Canada
USA (New York, Seattle, California)

That's 17, and I'm 22.

Well in the 3.5 years since I wrote that I can add 6 more to the list:
St Lucia
Barbados
Grenada
UAE (Dubai)
Hong Kong
Jordan

So up to 23, but I've got a bit older too...

Another year, and I can add:
- Kenya
- South Africa
- Vietnam
- Malaysia
- Belgium
- Portugal

Up to 29.

One year on, and this year I can add to the list:
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Saudi Arabia

Up to 32.

Slightly disappointed that it's only 3 new countries, despite 95 flights. Theoretically could add Qatar and Bahrain, but that was only transiting through. I didn't even make it to the USA once this year.

[iacabu]

28 years old. Visited 32 countries, although 14 of them never more than the port we were in

[psi310398]

Aged 53 coming on 54.

Must be pushing 80 countries, many of them multi visit (and ignoring day business trips, Vatican City and San Marino, and stop-overs/refuels). Probably got a head start as a son of Empire with a father who preferred taking home leaves by ship or overland.

UK (live there half the year)
Republic of Ireland
Norway (multiple + lived there for a year)
Sweden (multiple)
Finland
Denmark
Germany (multiple)
Netherlands (multiple)
Belgium (multiple)
Luxembourg
France (multiple + lived there for a year)
Monaco (spent a fortnight on a job there)
Switzerland (multiple)
Liechtenstein (stayed 2 days)
Austria
Czech Republic
Italy (multiple + live there half the year)
Spain
Andorra (stayed a week)
Portugal
Malta
Greece (multiple)
Slovenia
Slovakia
Bulgaria
Romania
Hungary

Egypt
Tunisia
Libya
Morocco
Nigeria (multiple - work, not leisure!)
Ghana
South Africa (multiple)
Mozambique (when still Portuguese)
Zimbabwe
Zambia
Malawi
Tanzania
Kenya (lived there for eight years)
Uganda
Rwanda
Burundi
Sudan (incl S Sudan)
Ethiopia
Somalia
Djibouti

Bahrain
Hong Kong
Israel
Jordan
Kuwait
Malaysia
Oman
Singapore
Turkey
UAE (both Abu Dhabi and Dubai)
Yemen

Australia (multiple)

Argentina (multiple + lived there for a year)
Brazil (multiple)
Chile
Uruguay (multiple)
Paraguay
Venezuela

Mexico
USA (multiple)
Trinidad & Tobago
Antigua & Barbuda (multiple)
Montserrat
St Kitts and Nevis
Barbados
BVI
USVI
Bermuda

[Yipper]

Interesting to see so few people in the 100 or 200 Club. Drives home just how difficult it really is to see all the world's countries.

[anonymous-user]

UK
France
Spain
Greece
Italy
Germany
Portugal
Romania
Finland
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Czech Republic
Egypt
Maldives
USA
Canada
Nepal

Maybe a few more I can't remember tonight

[Cyder]

UK
Ireland
France
Spain
Portugal
Switzerland
Belgium
Germany
Czech Republic
Holland
Greece
Morocco
Tunisia
Canaries
Mexico
Japan - work x3

Will add the US this year with a trip to NYC and hopefully at least one other minimum.

Decided now at 31 to make it my mission to visit at least one new country each year for the foreseeable future.

[R33FAL]

UK
Ireland
France
Germany
Belgium
Poland
Czech Republic
Switzerland
Austria
Italy
Monaco
Portugal
Spain
Netherlands
Denmark
Sweden
Finland
Norway
Estonia
Romania

Azerbaijan
Georgia
Israel
Iraq
Egypt
Qatar
UAE
Kuwait

Botswana
Namibia
Kenya
South Africa
US

Thailand
Indonesia
Singapore
Seychelles

I and have visited 37 countries so far (90% of them in the last 10 years; i am 33)... Main gaps are S. America, N, C Africa and Asia

[GT03ROB]

Yipper said:

Interesting to see so few people in the 100 or 200 Club. Drives home just how difficult it really is to see all the world's countries.

True. However you would always struggle to hit 200 as there are only 195 or 197 (depending who you count) in the world!!

It would also be interesting to see how long people have spent in some of these countries. I know I go from half days (e.g. Vatican) to having been resident (Qatar, Saudi, UAE, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, India, Equatorial Guinea, US). Also interesting how long in total people have spent outside the UK. In my case i guess it must be around 15years.

[HotJambalaya]

I'm using a little app, "Visited" to see, and according to that I've been to 46 countries, which ranks me in the top 4% for reference. 100 must be the top 0.001% !

100 is a goal, but will be quite the pain. You really need to get into africa and south america to get going.

I'll probably get another 10 this year starting with a few in SE asia in february

[Shay HTFC]

Europe
Netherlands
France
Belgium
Luxembourg
Germany
Spain
Portugal
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Austria
Poland
Czech Republic
Switzerland
Hungary
Italy
Vatican
Croatia
Slovenia
Romania
Serbia
Greece
Macedonia

Africa
South Africa
Namibia
Botswana
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Mid East / Asia
UAE
India
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Vietnam
Malaysia
Singapore
Indonesia

North America
USA
Bahamas
US Virgin Islands
Saint Martin

Oceana
Australia
New Zealand

Which by my reckoning is 42 - And I'm 30 years old.