Ask Lemmy

Canada: 2 days, visiting a friend in Quebec.

Mexico: Longest was a whole week; but accumulated over how many times I have gone there is probably a whole year or more. Always just been for fun (the week long stay was via a cruise); mostly just Tiajuana though.

Germany: 2 weeks, for work. Never got to see anything outside Bremerhaven.

Ireland: 2 hours. Had a layover there on the way to Germany.

I live in California, and have been to every state in the US except for Alaska and Hawaii. Almost got to Hawaii. That work in Germany I mentioned? It was because I was hired as a crewman for the Pride of America, an NCL cruise ship and it was just finishing being built when I got aboard. Was supposed to be touring Hawaii, but I tripped down some stairs on the way across the Atlantic to New York and fucked myself up enough that I couldn't continue working. Missed out on crossing the Panama canal and seeing Hawaii. 😩

UK.

I've worked in: UK, Ireland, Spain (Marid and Barcelona), France (Paris), Italy (Milan and Rome), Germany (all over), Belgium (Brussels), Denmark (Copenhagen), US (New York and New Jersey), Canada (Toronto and Montreal)

On top of those I've visited: Japan (many times), US (many times), Sweden, Holland, Iceland, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, BVI, Antigua, St Martin, Barbuda

I've sailed in BVi, Antigua, Barbuda, Italy, Greece, and obviously the UK.

If I could, I would live in Japan, by far my favourite place

Three.

Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Finland
Germany
Poland
France
Czech Republic
Slovakia
UK
Ireland
Spain
Portugal
Croatia
Austria
Belgium
Netherlands
US
Brazil
Malaysia
Nigeria
Cameroon
Equatorial Guinea
Singapore
Saudi Arabia
Bahrain
Hungary

The shortest stay was in Bahrain, for three days. I'd add duration and impression to the list, but that'd take me forever. So instead I'll just say that my favorites are Singapore, Malaysia, Czech Republic, and Croatia. Honorable mention: Bahrain

• Every state in the US (most in the form of being driven through back in the 70s), including Hawaii and Alaska
• Mexico over a dozen times, primarily Laredo
• Canada (for a day as part of a cruise)
• England and Scotland 4 times, including my honeymoon (about a month in total)
• Ireland (part of the aforementioned honeymoon, 4 days, including being in Dublin on St Patrick's Day)
• This part gets a little weird... Italy, Austria, Switzerland, WEST Germany... all before the wall fell
• West Berlin then East Berlin, the latter being the first time I'd ever had a gun pointed at me (polizei)
• Hungary as part of a trip to find where my paternal grandparents had lived prior to coming to the US
• New Zealand for 2.5 weeks to see Hobbiton... as well as a wealth of natural beauty and KORORA
• US Virgin Islands (St John)

EDIT: also France for 6 hours via the Chunnel ;)

Canada, US, Iceland, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Poland, Italy, Slovenia, Austria

Stopped going anywhere new though and I just go to Iceland every summer now

I'm Canadian BTW

Brazil: I am from here

Argentina (Buenos Aires): for a week when I was like 7, so I don't remember it very well, but it was alright. It was the first time I'd ever felt temperatures lower than 10°C outside.

Never been to any country other than those. Traveling by plane is expensive and I don't live near the Argentinian or Uruguayan border (I'm fairly sure they can be traveled between freely since they're also in Mercosul)

Edit: also, I don't speak any Spanish and mutual intelligibility isn't very reliable