Thedelldays Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 outside of the UK.. I wonder how well travelled SWF members are.. go on..
Deanovski Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 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.
Verbal Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 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.
Thedelldays Posted 15 August, 2009 Author Posted 15 August, 2009 been lucky enough to go to the far east, seychelles etc.. but the most "out there" place I have been to is.... The North Pole was remarkable really
Deanovski Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 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.
thesaint sfc Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 Egypt or Turkey I guess I really want to go travelling one day though.
Jillyanne Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 ****e Kinte's great grandfathers mud hut on some island in The Gambia.
OldNick Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 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.
DS Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 Val Sesia in Italy is an amazing place, very different to the rest of the Alps. Haven't travelled outside of Europe though so thats about as different as it get for me.
Rattlehead Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 i really would like to go to japan and china Did that in May with a side trip to North Korea, definitely the most 'different' place I have ever been.
Rattlehead Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 Japan much better than China btw. I love Japan.
Griffo Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 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?
Nineteen Canteen Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 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.
miserableoldgit Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 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.
saint lard Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 NYC. Toronto,inc Niagra falls. Copius places in France,Paris,Cannes,Nice,Bordeux,Avignon,Soulac,Villeneuve sur Lot,.... Ibiza. Palma.
Saintandy666 Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 I have been to the following countries... England Scotland Wales Italy/Vatican City Germany Austria Germany was most like the U.K, Scotland where I go at least once a year has a very different landscape to to southern England but I guess Italy was the most different.
Saint George Posted 15 August, 2009 Posted 15 August, 2009 I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain during the late 70's, pretty much the height of the Cold War......Lifestyles in East Germany, Poland and Russia at the time may just as well have been another World.....Incredible.
Petersfield Saint Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 Lived in Costa Rica for a year. Travelled to Panama by bus while I was there - that was a bit of an adventure!
Kingsland Codger Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 I lived in Tokyo for many years and travelled around the area a fair bit. The Phillipines was probably the most different place I've ever been to, especially up-country. It is the only country I've visited with an armed guard inside a flower shop.
dubai_phil Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 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
Robsk II Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 Verbal - how have you had the time to do all that?
Thedelldays Posted 16 August, 2009 Author Posted 16 August, 2009 I also went to Leigh Park once..strange place
Mase Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 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!
Verbal Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 (edited) Verbal - how have you had the time to do all that? 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. Edited 16 August, 2009 by Verbal
hamster Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 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.
Thedelldays Posted 16 August, 2009 Author Posted 16 August, 2009 india was an experience...very interesting place whilst utterly filthy
Junction 9 Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 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?
Arizona Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 Sedona, Arizona Levi, Finland, just because it got down to -37 degrees. San Diego, awesome city. Hedge End
RedAndWhite91 Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 I helped deliver a £450,000 boat from Sardinia to the South of Spain, the places aren't really 'different' but the experience was amazing! It took 3 days and was one of the coolest things I've ever done. It was on one of these:
Rattlehead Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 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.
View From The Top Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 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.
Robsk II Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 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.
Ludwig Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 A karaoke bar in Shanghai, soon after a group of us had entered the booth, an equal amount of prostitutes were also shepherded in. F*cking weird, indeed. Blue Lagoon, Iceland. 'Out of this world'.
Ludwig Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 Though, tbf, Shanghai could easily be any other city in the world, were it not for the masses of Chinese people. Beijing and Xi'an were much more different in terms of experience.
Doctoroncall Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 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)!
Guest Dark Sotonic Mills Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 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.
Ludwig Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 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.)
Thedelldays Posted 16 August, 2009 Author Posted 16 August, 2009 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
rocknrollman no2 Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 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.
timebomb Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 I drove from Jordan to UK in 80's and went to Petra - awesome! The missus also has some cool pics of her in the restaurant at the top of the twin towers NY.
RonManager Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 (edited) Driving monster steam engines across the mongolian deserts Edited 17 August, 2009 by RonManager
eurosaint Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 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
Deanovski Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 ive been to tenerife x 15 portugal barcelona madrid malaga nyc x 7 san francisco las vegas x 2 L.A france krakow norway sweden belgium St martin Florida x 2
Draino76 Posted 16 August, 2009 Posted 16 August, 2009 However my favourite place is Lighthouse beach in Kerala, India. Followed by Havana, Cuba. Simples.
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