The - I've been somewhere no one else has - thread

[User removed 4]

Ascension Island for 12 months

been there for about half a hour!

 

[User removed 4]

Buckingham Palace

guarded it , wore some pretty cool threads at the time !

 

[Trufflehound]

Kelimutu - Flores

Alice springs

Kandy

Yup to all

And I suspect you'd knock Kuching in Sarawak on the head if I put that up.

However, in 73 we were the first european family to stay in a long-house we visited in the Jungle in Sarawak. Amazing experience for an eight year old spending the night with the Dayak family.

Where was the one you stayed in? We stayed in one just south of Kapit, up the Rejang River.

Kuantan

Yup

Rimini Italy
Shenzhen China

Yup. Both dumps.

Brighton Beach............................
.................suburb of Melbourne, Australia

My aunt and uncle lived there for 20 years.

Livingstone, Zambia

Hobart & Kingston, Tasmania

Hiroshima
Pulau Tioman
Wollongong,New South Wales.

Bangalore

Surat Thani, Thailand

Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Victoria Falls - Zimbabwe side

Kyoto, Penang and Darjeeling

Kanchanaburi.

Chicago, USA

Yup.

Rotterdam

Just a few times. I update the Fodor's guide to it.

Brighton Beach, Brooklyn

Yup.

Borocay

Yup. Friends of mine are building a guesthouse there as we speak.(Ask about mate's rates as from mid-2011...)

Langkawi

Blimey, couple of the more out there places I've been would be ;Kota Kinabalu, Borneo. Rats in the bars, beautiful beaches.

Tagaytay, Philippines.

Mekong delta any one

Yup. My Tho for the latter.

Queenstown in Tasmania

Pulau Tioman

Yup

How many Brightons have you been to?

I call four. In Sussex, Tasmania, Victoria and NSW (Brighton-le-sands)

Five. Sussex. Two in New York state (the one near Rochester and Brighton Beach). Victoria. and has anyone else 'done' the one on South Island NZ, close to Dunedin?

Komodo Island
Uncle Tan's jungle camp on the Kinabatangan River in Sabah, Borneo

Kyoto, Japan

Yup.

Try Freiburg, Germany

Just a few times. I update the Fodor's guide to it.

Kununurra, WA, Australia
Padangbai, Bali, Indonesia.
Rota Rua, New Zealand.
Salo, Lake Garda, Italy.

Yup to all. I spent Xmas '88 in Rotorua.

Kanchanaburi, Thailand
Pai, Thailand
Vang Vieng, Laos

Yup to all.


How about Avarua, the Cook Islands
Dili, East Timor
Manado, Sulawesi
Ternate "City", Ternate Island, Indonesia


Places I wish I'd never been:
Bintauna, Sulawesi
Bangko, Sumatra
Oradea, Romania
Xoige, Gansu Province, China

 

[User removed 4]

port stanley, falkland islands
munster, north rhine westphalia
crossmaglen, south armagh

 

[Mortdecai]

Finland

Live Here

 

[Barrel of Fun]

The peak of Mount Mulanje, Malawi.

Isla de Juventud, Cuba.

Gympie, Australia.

Mindo, Ecuador.

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Sorry Hatter, been to both.

What did you think of Shenzen..... I went there about fifteen years ago and it can only have improved.

It depends what you mean as improved. It's huge, something like 16 million people live there and i didn't see a single low rise building. It feels though like a Western City (just full of Chinese people) and most of the people that I met were very well off. Got a feeling though thats it these sort of places where China is going to have problems when the next generation comes through.

 

[NMH]

Me too.

I'm afraid I have to ask that you take your seat Lord B., or you may be ejected from the stadium.

 

[Drumstick]

Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania.

 

[KZNSeagull]

A vaguely footie related one - Spion Kop.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Buck House - had tea there
Freiburg - been there

John O'Groats and Lands End - same year but not the same journey
Strasbourg
Metz
Luxembourg
La Rochelle

 

[Trufflehound]

Luxembourg

*cough*

 

[Napier]

Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania.

Yes, yes and yes.

 

[Napier]

It depends what you mean as improved. It's huge, something like 16 million people live there and i didn't see a single low rise building. It feels though like a Western City (just full of Chinese people) and most of the people that I met were very well off. Got a feeling though thats it these sort of places where China is going to have problems when the next generation comes through.

When I went it was a huge building site with a couple of "tourist attraction" parks. Probably the worst place I have ever visited - the best part was the train back to Hong Kong.

 

[Mellotron]

Stayed at the 5 star Breakers Hotel in Florida.

Still no one for Montejaque, Spain, or Jowai, India?

How about Shillong, India?

 

[Gritt23]

Kandy

Been there.

 

[shoreham moonraker]

Mazunte - mexico
Quetzaltenango - Guatemala
on the pyramid stage - pilton
Tokoriki island - Fiji
Ellon - Scotland
Koh Samet - Thailand

 

[Dave the OAP]

A vaguely footie related one - Spion Kop.

I said that earlier ( although spelt it wrongly)

 

[tip top]

Richland county detention center!

 

[Dave the OAP]

Nyasaland, Rhodesia, Swaziland, Lesotho, Lorenzo Marques