What is your favorite foreign country?

[vulturesrow]

My overseas travel is mostly limited to the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf. That being said, I think Crete is my favorite by far. I love the atmosphere and everyone was very friendly to me there. Food was good, just a great experience overall, both times I have been there. For sheer balls to the wall fun it is hard to beat Dubai or Marmaris(Turkey). What say ye, OOTiots?

[beerbandit]

never been yet -- im kinda young though

going strictly by name i look forward to going to tittyland

edit: i guess i have been to canada quite a few times, if that counts

cheers

[jakethebake]

Texas

[vulturesrow]

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lol. Isnt it the Republic of Texas?

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Texas

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lol. Isnt it the Republic of Texas?

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Yes. I'm from there so I suppose it isn't a foreign country to me. Maybe I should have said the U.S.? But I live there now. Anyway, whicvhever one is the foreign one of the two is the one I'm choosing for purposes of this thread.

[Matty]

South Korea. See avatar.

[jakethebake]

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South Korea. See avatar.

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I think that might be my least favorite. The smell of open sewers and kimchi is not pleasant. Plus I was never able to identify what I was eating.

[mostsmooth]

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South Korea. See avatar.

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vietnam, japan, china, but ive never been to any of them
as for the ones ive been to, holland followed by finland, sweden, and estonia.

[jackdaniels]

Best foreign country is:

Food wise: France
Entertainment wise: Israel (also ranks tops in hot chicks)
Different experience wise: Japan

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[jcx]

Venezuela. Not the safest place to visit at the moment. But indescribably beautiful (the women too). Canaima Natl Park, which includes Angel Falls & Auyan Tepuy should be on everyone's list as a place to see before they die.

[swede123]

Denmark is pretty cool, especially Copenhagen.

Swede

[slickpoppa]

I really liked New Zealand

[ACPlayer]

My most memorable memories of a trip was to the Okavango Delta in Botswana. Terrific long bush walks in Moremi State Park and of course the diversity of the delta.

For arnfinn -- the flight landing in Tromso over the fjords is beautiful and unique.

I love the energy and liberal nature of Amsterdam.

The food in Vietnam.

The people of France.

Scuba Diving in Phuket and the Phillipines.

The beauty of the Garden Route in South Africa.

The isolation of Tobago (this was 15 years ago, it has no doubt changed).

[jdl22]

Spain. I suspect I would really like New Zealand as well though I've never been.

[Chairman Wood]

Argentina, most beautiful women, ever.

[daryn]

italy

[mostsmooth]

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Denmark is pretty cool, especially Copenhagen.

Swede

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swede, whered you get that avatar?
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[kevyk]

England. Only truly civilized country on earth (and I include my native US in that statement).

[stigmata]

Spain. I plan to move there...

I live in the UK, which tops my "shittiest country" list. It's raining right now..... uugghh.

[jackdaniels]

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[slickpoppa]

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England. Only truly civilized country on earth (and I include my native US in that statement).

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England is pretty cool, but the weather sucks balls

[jakethebake]

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That was my reaction as well. If you're an American it's safe to say they don't return your sentiment.

[ACPlayer]

I spent 10 days in Paris in Oct 2001 (just after 9/11) and found the people friendly, warm and very concerned about America and it peoples.

Not sure how they would react now. We destroyed that good will, perhaps.

[stigmata]

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England. Only truly civilized country on earth (and I include my native US in that statement).

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It's different if you had to grow up here..... You call 12 pints of lager, a curry, a fight, followed by a cheap [censored] civilised? You call an 19th century class system civilized? You call 6 months of grey skies civilized? You call this nation of rude, depressed people civilized? Have you ever been to Brimingham? Or Watford? Or Milton Keynes? Or Swindon? Or Slough? Or 99% of the country for that matter....


Anyway, most Europeans are far more civilized than us British. And Americans have far better manners than we do, although for some reason they allways compliment us on them.

Oh yeah, and the french will be cool with you as long as you:
A) Aren't some obesely fat tourist who goes around asking for McDonalds.
B) Express some sort of anti-bush sentiment
C) Make some attempt at speaking the language, and show some sort of cultural maturity.
D) Do not display any kind of cultural arrogance. The French are even more proud than Americans, believe it or not.

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Now this post is accurate.

Generaly speaking the people of France aren't the nicest to North Americans. I wouldn't read too much into how they seemed during that particular crisis, their overall attitude towards the non-french usually sucks.

[on_thg]

Canada.

[ACPlayer]

I am sorry you had a bad experience in France.

I also enjoyed playing at the Aviation Club.

[Shajen]

#1: Australia
#2: Hong Kong
#3: Malaysia
#4: Ireland
#5: Mexico

Mexico makes the list because of all the good times I've had getting plastered down in TJ.

[pokerjo22]

I was in France on 9/11. They were very nice to me, and even allowed me to stay in the hotel free of charge until I was able to get a plane back home (about a week later!)

[pokerjo22]

Italy is my favorite country, closely followed by Thailand.

[jackdaniels]

Don't get me wrong, the country is great (see my thread above for greatest country in terms of food). It's the people I don't like.

If there is anything I hate it's intolerance of other peoples cultures. And the French.

[ACPlayer]

If there is anything I hate it's intolerance of other peoples cultures

Me too.

And the French.

Not me. To me the two do not connect.

Far worse is the attitude in some countries (specially Asia) where they are very friendly but really all they want is your biz.

While working at Carnegie Mellon (many years ago) I lived with a French girl (as room mates only, sigh), she was my first introduction to a French person and since then they have all been uniformly pleasant and tolerant.

[swede123]

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swede, whered you get that avatar?
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clicky (http://www.limecat.net/)

Swede

[Edge34]

Far and away, my favorite country I've visited is Australia. Of course, its hard NOT to love the perfect beaches, the beautiful women, and the fact that I was technically of age while I was down there following senior year of high school, so going to the bars with my friends was sweet.

Went there for a "football all-star" game with a company called International Sports Specialists...Surfer's Paradise on the Gold Coast. There was even a 4th of July parade and cool [censored] like that. There really isn't anything like waking up, going to the beach, checking out the "scenery", then going to play a football game (MN all-stars won the tournament too!) then going back to the beach and the bars. Even at night, sitting on the hotel room's balcony and just watching the ocean...I'm going back someday...

I also really enjoyed Germany. Beer, food, scenery, everything. Kicked major ass.

[kevyk]

Ha! Obviously, I was half-joking. Still, the Magna Carta, Principia, Shakespeare, and rule of law go a long way in my book.

[Shajen]

I only visited Cairnes in Australia. Beautiful place though. The GBR is just fanfargintastic.

Plus, it was the first land I'd seen in over 45 days. Stupid Navy boats and their "we don't need no stinkin land" mentality.

[jesusarenque]

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That was my reaction as well. If you're an American it's safe to say they don't return your sentiment.

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This is not true.

[jesusarenque]

Spain

[Duke]

Some foreign countries that I do not like:

Manhattan: You're forced to rely on public transportation due to the impossible logistics of maintaining an automobile without many places to park it, even if you do drive it around. Then, said public transportation is flaky precisely when you're relying on it to be reliable. Yes, it is the best public transportation application that I have ever seen, but that just shows how much all the other ones suck. Oh, and they condition the people there to accept not getting free refills of 4 cent/glass (cost) soda that you pay $3 for. This is annoying after being used to having free soda thrown at me in Vegas/California.

Southern California: A country made up by far too many guilt-ridden leftists to ever be comfortable in. Housing prices are ridiculous (though not as ridiculous as the nation of Manhattan). Around the principality of Los Angeles you're forced to live in either a bad area, or in a small good area surrounded by bad areas. Wonderful setup. The roads are all falling apart, and the people tend to elect jackasses to govern. It's pathetic when Arnold is 1000x better than the last jerkoff who was in office.

Mexico really sucks too.

Canada is a pretty nice place, though. The United States is up there as well.

I can't speak to the Nation of Las Vegas, since I'm a resident.

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[jakethebake]

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That was my reaction as well. If you're an American it's safe to say they don't return your sentiment.

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Probably not in your case. Since no one anywhere else likes you, it stands to reason that the French would.

[jesusarenque]

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Probably not in your case. Since no one anywhere else likes you, it stands to reason that the French would.

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Your mom likes me. She looked like an Old French Whore, though.

[PapaSan]

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That was my reaction as well. If you're an American it's safe to say they don't return your sentiment.

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It's not just the french, nobody likes americans.

[jackdaniels]

Yeah baby! Get those mom jokes out of the closet and onto the internet where they belong!

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If there is anything I hate it's intolerance of other peoples cultures

Me too.

And the French.

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I was trying to make a funny (http://www.moviewavs.com/cgi-bin/mp3s.cgi?Austin_Powers_In_Goldmember=thedutch.mp3)

edited to fix the damn linky thingy...

[jesusarenque]

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That was my reaction as well. If you're an American it's safe to say they don't return your sentiment.

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It's not just the french, nobody likes Bush.

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FYP. The vast majority of Europeans (and others in the world) have no problems with Americans. They don't like American foreign policy.

[SomethingClever]

Italy and it's not close.

Oh, wait, I also really dig the Dominican Republic. I guess it is close.

[jakethebake]

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FYP. The vast majority of Europeans (and others in the world) have no problems with Americans. They don't like American foreign policy.

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That's fair since American foreign policy exists to serve Americans not foreigners.

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FYP. The vast majority of Europeans (and others in the world) have no problems with Americans. They don't like American foreign policy.

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That's fair since American foreign policy exists to serve Americans not foreigners.

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In theory, yes. Now it serves neither Americans nor foreigners. Nevermind, this is getting into Politics Forum [censored].

[pmuir10]

Malaysia

[dogsballs]

France.

great contryside, public transport, food. Paris is the most laid back big city I've ever been to - and most beautiful.

Never been to australia, but I'm sure it'd be up there. I always get along well with australians.

[Arnfinn Madsen]

France, definately. Wonderful capital with great restaurants, culture and people. But also many wonderful medeival villages around the country.

Go watch Tour de France!

[thatpfunk]

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Have you ever actually been to France Jake?

Most French people are very nice.

[rmarotti]

Not Grenada.

[jokerthief]

Saudi Arabia, strange as it sounds--they have a wicked fun underworld.

[jason_t]

Italy.

[i wanna be me]

Texas.....uh Brooklyn.....Homer

[blaze666]

canada

[AEKDBet]

Spain (Barcelona)

[Cyrus]

Hey, vult? Crete is not a country. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

No more tsikoudia today.

[Zeno]

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Plus I was never able to identify what I was eating.

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Is not that part of the fun?

Part of the 'open sewer' smell is probably people cooking tofu.

-Zeno

[Zeno]

Excellent post Mr. Duke from the Nation of Las Vegas, but I must take issue with one statement: 'Mexico really sucks too.' True, if you mostly hang around border towns or other areas of devastation and you no doubt expected some sort of order. That is Bad Form and unrealistic expectations.

Also, there are portions of Mexico that are serene and beautiful and peaceful and absolutely nothing gets done all day long, which is about as close to paradise as you will ever come on this cesspool of a planet.

-Zeno

[KaneKungFu123]

some of you guys have done alot of traveling. awesome. so far ive only been to thailand and laos.

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My overseas travel is mostly limited to the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf. That being said, I think Crete is my favorite by far. I love the atmosphere and everyone was very friendly to me there. Food was good, just a great experience overall, both times I have been there. For sheer balls to the wall fun it is hard to beat Dubai or Marmaris(Turkey). What say ye, OOTiots?

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[Kurn, son of Mogh]

Spain