Theres probably nothing technically missing...I probably didn't articulate it correctly but the list misses out a lot of constituent countries. For example, Curacao - I'm guessing this is lumped in with Netherlands, but using it as a list of places you've travelled then travelling to Willemstad is very different than travelling to Amsterdam. Same with Falklands.
Like the mine and the BT Tower, would be good to hear about unusual or off-limits places TZers have explored.
A couple of years ago I managed to get a private tour round 10 Downing Street. Saw Larry the Cat, all the state rooms, cabinet room and a lot of random artwork that is in there including the neon sign given by Tracey Emin.
31 for me...
31 for me! I’m my mind I thought they were more but I guess that’s mostly due to having visited many of them many times for work and leisure
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I've been to 41 on that list.
I did an Interrail circuit of Europe in 1993 and a Round-the-World trip in 1999, including crossing the international date line
Question: Does crossing the International date line make me 1 day younger than the calender would suggest I am? I went eastwards, Sydney to Los Angeles.
Dunno, but when the International Date Line was first drawn it went through the middle of the island of Taveuni in Fiji, before being 'bent' to pass round land. So, when I visited the island I found the marker stone and stood with one foot in today and one foot in tomorrow (or yesterday).
I'll admit one or two of mine were airport stop overs (Singapore & Turkey), but no 'waters of'.
I almost visited three more (Saudi Arabia, Tanzania and Sudan), but I didn't count near misses!
M
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We've set up a long term home in five different continents so far, which become bases for exploring a region's geography, history and culture. We've not lived in Australia, although residing in Singapore and Malaysia for several years offered handy kicking off points for a dozen or so trips into Oceania. Obviously an Antarctic home isn't going to happen but I'd quite like to visit one day. Geneva has much to answer for.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
22 for me. Would have been 23 if my trips had gone ahead last year. Never been to the Far or Middle East but hopefully will do in 2/3 years time. Probably been to Greece at least 50 times over the years though, as try and get there a couple of times a year.
OK, so some scientific-ish digging suggests I am one day younger than my calendar age suggests because I traveled East over the IDLine.
I was born on a Tuesday in the 1970s.
Many years later I went east over the IDL landing at LAX Los Angeles.
A day was added to the real time calendar by the airline crew on board to match the Los Angeles people. But I only aged by the flight duration of 14 hrs, and I think we left at 7 AM Sydney time.
If you count up the days I've been alive, from that Tuesday in the 1970s, it's 17,596. But I've only been on the planet for 17,595 (of my) days.
Supreme geekery, or have I mucked this up?
I also found in my reading that a pilot flying for his whole career (at high speeds) will experience about 50 microseconds of time dilation.
Excluding cruise and flight stopovers I can only manage 6 but that does include several islands belonging to those countries.
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Never happened.
When travelling, you just live through a number of longer or shorter days (let's ignore relativity for this argument), but the number of hours never changes. At the end of the day, if you were born 50 years ago today on the very spot where you are now, you are 50 years old, no matter how often you travelled around the world one way or another.
Just look at it like this. You and a friend both travel around the world, one clock-wise, the other counter-clock-wise. Let's say the trip takes a few days with stopovers and you leave at the same time (the counterclockwise flight will be much quicker, but that's for another day). So if you meet again at the end of your journeys and shake hands again (post corona), has one of you aged differently from the other? No.
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
27 for me - I feel I’ve been travelling for ever (I’m 70) but it has fallen off dramatically over the last decade.
Yes but, the count of days I've been alive, calculating the total from my birthday is wrong, no? Because it assumes 24 hours alive in each 7 day week.
But that week I passed through 8 calender days.....
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
60 from the list and no longer have any real desire to add to it.
I FEEL LIKE I'M DIAGONALLY PARKED IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE
14, intend to start travelling again in a couple of months (not for the count, though).
36 from the list, it would have been a few more if not for COVID
35 for me from that list, some many times over, mostly on business.
Interestingly, the one that made me look over my shoulder fairly constantly was whenever I visited Manila.
The people in the Philippines are very welcoming though and hard workers.
They are also like human recorders, their musicianship and ability to repeat what they hear is outstanding.
Andy
When I was in Libya met some people from the Travellers’ Century Club and they presently count 329 separate countries and territories on their list to visit. Membership is for those over 100.
One of the guys on the trip had 4 to go; heard from him the next year that he had done them and completed it. What to do after that ……
That's useful for their definition of territory which they list in addition to individual countries - e.g. Alaska, Transnistria, Easter Island, Sabah and Sarawak. Their definition of visiting is also far looser than mine, setting one foot down during a refuel stop qualifies. It makes 100 much easier to achieve, I guess I'd be heading towards 150 by their criteria.
https://travelerscenturyclub.org/cou...rritory-status
https://travelerscenturyclub.org/cou...nd-territories
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
I do remember he had to be on the payroll of one of the US armed services to get access to one island. Was paid a dollar :-) . Each area of Antarctic took some planning as well with weather window. Libya was tricky as this was during Gadafi’s time and relations with the US were not great and they were Americans. It opened up a bit for the eclipse so they took the opportunity.
36 for me, would have probably been 40 if not for Covid.
There's only one I have no interest in visiting again and that's Nigeria.
Cheers,
Adam.
Only 26 for me, would have thought it was going to be rather more.