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I travel quite abit although no where that different, ive stayed at my girlfriends house in new york for a couple of weeks few times and you start to see how different things really are. Especially when you compare it to lymington and even how tiny southampton is in comparison.

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The rainforests of eastern Madagascar.

 

A mountain in Borneo, climbed in the worst humidity I've ever experienced.

 

Polar bear-spotting in Spitzbergen in the Norwegian Arctic. In -35 temps.

 

Freetown, Sierra Leone, staying in a hotel where a massacre had occurred a few years earlier - and travelling to a small island in the jungle where the SAS had rescued British hostages during the civil war.

 

Goree - the 'slave island' in Senegal.

 

The 'devil's anvil' in Jordan - in 129F degrees. (If you know your Lawrence of Arabia, it's where je nearly died in the ferocious heat trying to find his Arab guide.)

 

Crac de Chevaliers, in Syria - the largest Crusader castle in the Middle East.

 

Ran - a tiny 1k x 3k island next to an active volcano in the Banda Sea. The only way to get access to it was to row in a dugout among a sea of shark fins, and within 200 metrers of the larva sliding into the sea. In the seventeenth century, the British and the Dutch swapped Ran for Manhattan.

 

East Timor, while the war of independence with the Indonesians was still on.

 

Swat Valley, Pakistan - two journeys through the valley in 2007, shortly before it was overrun by the Taliban.

 

Plus many other adventures in North and South America, Africa, South East Asia, Australia, etc.

 

Never been to Wales though.

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The rainforests of eastern Madagascar.

 

A mountain in Borneo, climbed in the worst humidity I've ever experienced.

 

Polar bear-spotting in Spitzbergen in the Norwegian Arctic. In -35 temps.

 

Freetown, Sierra Leone, staying in a hotel where a massacre had occurred a few years earlier - and travelling to a small island in the jungle where the SAS had rescued British hostages during the civil war.

 

Goree - the 'slave island' in Senegal.

 

The 'devil's anvil' in Jordan - in 129F degrees. (If you know your Lawrence of Arabia, it's where je nearly died in the ferocious heat trying to find his Arab guide.)

 

Crac de Chevaliers, in Syria - the largest Crusader castle in the Middle East.

 

Ran - a tiny 1k x 3k island next to an active volcano in the Banda Sea. The only way to get access to it was to row in a dugout among a sea of shark fins, and within 200 metrers of the larva sliding into the sea. In the seventeenth century, the British and the Dutch swapped Ran for Manhattan.

 

East Timor, while the war of independence with the Indonesians was still on.

 

Swat Valley, Pakistan - two journeys through the valley in 2007, shortly before it was overrun by the Taliban.

 

Plus many other adventures in North and South America, Africa, South East Asia, Australia, etc.

 

Never been to Wales though.

 

pr!ck ;) i really would like to go to japan and china though want to do alot of sight seeing in china, like one of the shrines of guan yu.

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I travel quite abit although no where that different, ive stayed at my girlfriends house in new york for a couple of weeks few times and you start to see how different things really are. Especially when you compare it to lymington and even how tiny southampton is in comparison.

 

Does your girlfriend live in New York? :lol:

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I went on a cricket tour of Weston super mare and I can tell you the pubs and clubs were like going into the bars in a Star Wars movie.

 

Much LOL - now stop trying to big up how well travelled you are.

 

When West Quay first opened I went to the IOW by accident thinking I was in a well organised queue for the multi-storey. One day I hope to make it to West Quay as my wife could do with a holiday.

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Went to Baghdad in 1989, just before the first Gulf War. A real eye-opener! We stayed in The Baghdad Sheraton in the international area but you didn`t have to go far to find the absolute poverty of much of the populace. A lot of money had obviously been spent on Palaces and monuments like the amazing crossed-sword victory arch to satisfy one mans vanity. Saddams attempts at "re-building" Babylon were at best tacky.

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Sa'naa in Yemen.

 

Quite a few years back for work now before they got all kidnappy.

 

The reason it is different is the whole style and architecture of the buildings, especially in the Old town area is just alien to the eye, and some of the buildings there have been in place for over 2,000 years.

 

Also was odd to find they have their own version of Stonehenge and also Mocha is there. As in the actual spiritual home of Arabica coffee. They also chew gatt or Betel Leaves so the pavements walls and stuff are sortta green tinged

 

Flying there on Yemenia was also weird and scary as was being arrested at immigration for 3 hours because of a visa technicality and stuck in a cell during the Eng Spain game in Euro 2000 when I had organised a damned tv to watch the game on in the hotel

 

After that? Petra in Jordan.

 

All done while working

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Did a 3 month trip in a car around France and Italy last year.

 

Not so much different places but worth a mention. Had the best time of my life!

 

Stayed in these places in this order:

 

Reims, Lyon, Monaco, Marseille, Turin, Milan, Verona, Florence, Rome, Naples, Siena, Genoa, Nice and then home!

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I've had Donkey's years, I'm sorry to say, and it all started when I went to work for a now defunct ITV series called Survival.

Sorry to be pedantic, but it is donkeys 'ears' not donkeys 'years'.

 

I've stood in the middle of the stones at Stonehenhe (on my own), been down the Nile, stood on the edge of the Grand canyon, been to the top of the Empire State and a few other places that make you wonder at the wonder of it all. My favourite places (not outside UK though) and ones that I never tire of though is Deal in Kent and St Ives in Cornall.

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Sa'naa in Yemen.

 

Quite a few years back for work now before they got all kidnappy.

 

The reason it is different is the whole style and architecture of the buildings, especially in the Old town area is just alien to the eye, and some of the buildings there have been in place for over 2,000 years.

 

Also was odd to find they have their own version of Stonehenge and also Mocha is there. As in the actual spiritual home of Arabica coffee. They also chew gatt or Betel Leaves so the pavements walls and stuff are sortta green tinged

 

Flying there on Yemenia was also weird and scary as was being arrested at immigration for 3 hours because of a visa technicality and stuck in a cell during the Eng Spain game in Euro 2000 when I had organised a damned tv to watch the game on in the hotel

 

After that? Petra in Jordan.

 

All done while working

 

There's just no escaping these two is there?

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Lived in Costa Rica for a year. Travelled to Panama by bus while I was there - that was a bit of an adventure! ;)

 

I too have travelled to Panama from CR by bus, it was also an adventure. Panama > CR IMO but Colombia better than both. My favourite visited country is Colombia - I loved it there.

 

As well as North Korea, Chernobyl is also one of the more different trips I've been on. Other great and very different to the UK countries I've visited: Belarus, Guatemala, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Laos, India, Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia and Falkland Islands. Think I've probably been to around 70 countries now.

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Culturally the places that have been most different to the UK have been Djibouti and Belize, with a month in Belize being spent in the rainforest.

 

The worst places have been Kharachi and Dhaka.

 

The best place has to be Bora Bora along with some of the smaller South Pacific islands.

 

I spent 15+ years travelling with work before settling down in Blighty and have been to most places apart from the Pacific coast of South America.

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St Ives in Cornall.

 

Truly beautiful place. Spent a fair bit of time there. Tinged with a few less good memories now, but still somewhere I'll go back at some point.

 

I've been around a fair bit of Europe, including Scandinavian places and Eastern Europe, but for some reason I've never managed to go to Italy at all (though I thihk I'd love it) or outside this continent.

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india was an experience...very interesting place whilst utterly filthy

 

Indeed, the stench when we left the airport from Delhi was horrendous and we wondered what it was until we saw a bloke squatting down on a peice of wasteland to do his duty. Having said that India is a great place and would happily go again (but not the wasteland part)!

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Though' date=' tbf, [b']Shanghai could easily be any other city in the world[/b], were it not for the masses of Chinese people.

 

Beijing and Xi'an were much more different in terms of experience.

TBF, though, that goes for virtually any large city in the world. There are exceptions, of course. Istanbul old town could only have been a part of the ancient world, what with capitals being used as the basis for tables in cafes and literally thousands of ancient artefacts lining the streets and stacked up in alleys.

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Indeed, the stench when we left the airport from Delhi was horrendous and we wondered what it was until we saw a bloke squatting down on a peice of wasteland to do his duty. Having said that India is a great place and would happily go again (but not the wasteland part)!

 

The smell from 200 yards above when landing into Mumbai airport. Not pleasant.

 

(DSM: I could tell Beijing was different, but Shanghai seemed a lot like Dubai to me, rather bland, except bits of the old town.)

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Indeed, the stench when we left the airport from Delhi was horrendous and we wondered what it was until we saw a bloke squatting down on a peice of wasteland to do his duty. Having said that India is a great place and would happily go again (but not the wasteland part)!

 

I travelled from Panjim to Mumbai...

 

when arriving at Mumbai airport to go home there was loads of beggers..

One woman was begging with what looked like a dead baby in her arms..

 

would be happy never to go back thank you very much

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I travelled from Panjim to Mumbai...

 

when arriving at Mumbai airport to go home there was loads of beggers..

One woman was begging with what looked like a dead baby in her arms..

 

would be happy never to go back thank you very much

 

I agree with you mate.

Ive never seen so many beggers in one place.Everyone of them had a baby who looked like it hadnt been fed for a week,yet the Indian government supplies free baby food and schooling until they are teenagers.So theres no need for the beggers to use their kids.

Although there were some beautiful parts,mainly the beaches,most of what i saw was very dirty and very poor.

Reminded me of Leigh Park.

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Never been to Australia/New Zealand but I've been just about everywhere else and no, I never worked for an airline !

Favourite continents (in order):

1) Asia

2) Europe

3) North America/Canada

4) South America

Favourite Place:

Cape Town

Least Favourite:

Middle East in general.

Most Interesting:

Nepal and parts of India.

Most Fun:

Thailand, Phillipines.

Best Shopping:

Chicago.

Best Birds :

Budapest.

Best Food:

Tuscany.

Best Airline:

Singapore Airlines

Worst Airline:

CAAC in the early 80's.

 

HTH

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