Going back to work. Will answer when I get a chance.

Where I've been as an adult:

-Italy (about 8 times)
-Germany (about 8 times)
-Spain (about 8 times)
-France (about 6 times)
-Ireland (about 6 times)
-Netherlands (twice)
-Finland (once for 2 weeks)
-Cyprus (once for 1 week)
-Czech Republic (once for a week)
-Belgium (twice for day trips)
-Luxembourg (once for the day)
-Australia (once for about a month)
-New Zealand (once, both islands)
-USA (4 times, going back this summer after this I will have visited 15 states)
-UAE (Just once for a couple of days)
-Hong Kong (Just once for a few days)
-Singapore (Just once for a few days)
-Fiji (Just once for a couple of days)

Think that's it

xander, where have you lived/do you live? Are you really in Lebanon?

Nah, I'm Welsh living in England currently

Lebanon is just nonsense

I know the facebook stuff was posted days ago, but this was on the top of my feed and thought it to be share-worthy:

In that case a very kthywyxylwy day to you sir

no k or x in the welsh alphabet but otherwise

I'd like to get to Wales at some point

have only ever been in Scotland and London in my meager UK travels

do you still have a distinct Welsh accent?

meagre

Yeah I do have a distinct Welsh accent

It's far from the strongest, but compared to a non welsh person it's very noticeably different

llmeagrwmstryth

is, I think, the Welsh spelling

The Welsh alphabet



Something perhaps you can work out:

what is "taxi" in Welsh?

tacsi? or tacsy

i'm probably missing something

Latvia: Nice trip. Probably saw everything I needed to though. Ventspils was a very nice coastal city. Cesis was also very nice. Riga was okay. Nothing bad, but nothing too special either. Went here (and Lithuania) because my wife couldn't come and she said "no new countries". We eventually compromised on a new country was okay if it were part of the former USSR. I don't think she was all that serious, but I was happy to go here.

Lithuania: Only saw Vilnius. Great city; very underrated. I expected it to be much more "Soviet". It was very modern. Not quite as modern as Copenhagen, but surprisingly close considering where they were a quarter century ago. Highly recommended for a couple days.

Romania: Now this country still had a lot of the drab Soviet-style architecture you might imagine. Very interesting. Definitely felt like I had gone back in time a little, despite being in the EU.

Denmark: Actually did this for work. There was a company that needed a test done that our lab specializes in. But for some reason, the protein couldn’t leave the country. So they asked me if I wanted to go and that the company would pay me 2x my salary at the time. Umm…..yes……? Brought my then-girlfriend over for two weeks after I finished. Amazing opportunity; great country. Would go back in a heartbeat if given the opportunity again.

Iceland: Did drive all the way around. Then flew to Greenland for a few days because it was there. Got sunburned in Greenland (not many can say that). Favorite part of the trip was either snowmobiling on one of those unpronounceable glaciers or spending some time in and around Akureyri, a delightful small town in the north. Rekjavik is a bit overrated, though they did move the penis museum there that IBD always comments about in every Iceland discussion.

That dafad needs a green arrow.

well done it's tacsi

y is more of an "uh" sound

We had a friend and her kids over this week. She went to Aberystwyth uni but live in Leeds now. I had a conversation with my neighbor in front of her after which she said "wow you've learned Welsh really fast". We were talking English

From my Instagram: Welsh word of the day

Thanks for the response; this is really cool. Looks like I'll have to add Vilnius to my city wishlist; that sounds right up my alley. Pretty funny that you worked in the "unless they were part of the former USSR" loophole; that gives you a ton of great destinations to choose from. Between Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania, which had the best food?

I have a suspicion that you're really going to love Prague, btw.

I never get to go anywhere for work, so five weeks at 2x salary (!) in Denmark and then another two weeks tacked on at the end sounds like a dream. I'm envious.

My parents and I spent an afternoon in Akureryi when we were in Iceland; it's a funny story that merits its own post.

lolwales

Romania, but I wouldn't rank any of them very highly cuisine-wise.

Where in India did you go? Interested, but seems really foreign.

India is the next place we're planning on going (far away place anyways)

ok why not

As an adult:

- Portugal (I am in Lisbon right now, also been to the Algarve with work)
- Italy (Rome)
- Germany (Berlin, Munich and the Rhine gorge)
- Spain (Barcelona and Valencia)
- Ireland (Dublin)
- Netherlands (Amsterdam, going to a place near Utrecht next weekend)
- Sweden (Stockholm and the Saint Anna archipelago)
- Norway (Bergen and near Lofthus in Hardangerfjord)
- Hungary (Budapest)
- Belgium (Bruges)
- Austria (Vienna and Kitzbuhel)
- France (Paris and Vernon)
- Slovenia (Lake Bled, still probably my favourite place in Europe)
- Vietnam (Saigon, Can Tho, Ha Tien)
- Cambodia (Kep, Phnom Penh, Siem Reap)
- Thailand (Bangkok)
- Canada (Montreal)
- USA (San Francisco, LA, Vegas, bits of Utah and Arizona, DC, Atlantic City (worst place I've ever visited on holiday), New York).
- Turkey (Istanbul (not Constantinople))
- Croatia (Dubrovnik, Split, Trogir)
- Greece (Athens, Delphi)
- South Africa (taught maths in a school in Soweto, Johannesburg for a month, also went to Cape Town)
- Scotland/Wales (if you count them as different countries to England)

Want to go to:

- Japan
- China
- Morocco
- Mexico
- More of Eastern Europe
- The Caribbean
- More of the USA
- India

baby bloo is somewhat delaying some of these ambitions though