What are your favorite and least favorite countries you've visited?

Fav:

Austria
Maldives
US
Japan
Germany
Ireland
Spain
Andorra
Monaco
(consider the last two separate from france)
Croatia
Hungry


Least:
Mexico
Portugal (nice enough landscape just the language sounds like a deaf Spanish person or an Italian puking)
Romania
England
Panama (nothing specific other than the wife made me stay at an eco resort that I hated)
 
Has anyone ever had a positive experience in Egypt?
 
SouthoftheAndes said:
Think of it this way. You dont want liberals like Trotsky to like places like China or Russia. Cause if they do that means they have become degenerate shitholes or it is just a fad for them.
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I am not a liberal. And I fucking hate being referred to as one. Please, leftist/socialist/syndicalist/trotskyist/Marxist. Any of those will do. If you're dead set on using American mainstream terminology, "progressive" is at least better than liberal.

Personally these type of threads I never put too much stock into. Unless you have lived somewhere for +6 months and ideally a year the overall opinion is without significant merit or experience. Speaking overall about a country just via short duration visits let alone a 2 day visit or so can't do enough justice to what it is really like. With that being said the internet does allow you to find out whatever info you want, but nothing beats the actual experience and day to day interactions with people. So with that said the haters can go ahead and bash but their opinion shouldn't matter to any person who loves the country they hate on. At most it might sway some western traveler. I mean these things are so subjective.
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Yup, this is spot on.
 
silus_2000 said:
Most

1. Sweden
2. Denmark
3. Netherlands
4. Spain
5. New Zealand
5. France
6. England
7. Germany

Least

1. Ethiopia
2. Saudi Arabia
3. Mexico
4. Philippines
5. Morocco
6. Bahrain
7. Korea
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Gross, why would you ever go there?

There are so many pleasant Muslim countries like Iran, Jordan, and even Morocco (although it seems the latter wasn't much to your liking either).
 
Trotsky said:
Gross, why would you ever go there?

There are so many pleasant Muslim countries like Iran, Jordan, and even Morocco (although it seems the latter wasn't much to your liking either).
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Work.
 
Trotsky said:
What was your experience in France? This has been on my itinerary, since I really appreciate French history (Revolution) and culture (skepticism, existentialism). But I have heard they can be a bit snooty.

I would kind of expect Japan would be harsh just because of how strict their culture is. Russia was just...I don't know.
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Japan is fookin' awesome. By far it's my favorite place on Earth after my home province. Just don't expect to buy pot on the street corner. Aside from illicit drugs you can find anything you want, amazing food, the best booze (admittedly subjective), incredible women, just fantastic all around, imo.

Least favorite was Belgium, although I was there for only a very short time and my experience was very limited, because I found a lot of people were quite rude-admittedly, they may have mistaken me for American so I might be judging them unfairly LOL.
 
Trotsky said:
Well, that's that. From what I've heard from persons who have lived there, it's a deeply miserable place to be.
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Maybe for the foreign workers they bring in from third world countries. For me it was fine. Large community of "expats" in the medical and government fields.
 
silus_2000 said:
Maybe for the foreign workers they bring in from third world countries. For me it was fine. Large community of "expats" in the medical and government fields.
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I have an Iranian-born friend whose family had to move to Saudi Arabia. When I first met him in the States, he said that his only goal for his time here was to get a girlfriend: just having a girlfriend he could spend time in public and private with. He said that, in Saudi Arabia, if you were seen in public fraternizing with a woman not within your nuclear family, you would be lashed publicly. He said that romantic networking was confined to elicit online dating sites.
 
Denter said:
Has anyone ever had a positive experience in Egypt?
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The worst thing I encountered in Egypt was a warm beer. When I complained, the waiter made sure to tell me that he wouldn't know, because he doesn't drink the stuff. I'm not sure how that affected his ability to know that it wasn't cold, buy anyhoo...

Everything else was pretty spectacular! Full-on tourist stuff for me, though - snorkeling in the Red Sea, boating down the Nile, and taking in all of the ancient sites.

I was there in August of 2001. I think I would have had a completely different vibe if I was there, say, mid-Sept, 2001.
 
Double-tap.
 
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I'm sitting in Bali airport right now and I can honestly say I probably won't be coming back.
The U.S. is awesome to visit but Thailand is by far my favorite place in the world.
 
Whoa - triple tap?
 
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Very interesting thread!

Favorites

1) Spain (Costa del Sol), beautiful coastline, great tapas, great climate. I'm avoiding the worst tourist spots.

2) Hong Kong, I like the urban feel, great restaurants, nice clubs where everyone is not mean mugging each other as here in Sweden.

3) Australia, beautiful sceneries, friendly people, fascinating animals.

4) Tanzania, Ngorongoro crater, the wildlife, friendly and jovial people.

5) Austria, like the architecture, the Alps, the food.


Ambivalent

Zanzibar, beautiful island, loved to swim with dolphins, terrible but interesting island history. The people there differed quite a lot from their countrymen on the mainland. They seemed bitter and was quite unfriendly.

Less ideal visits

1) Egypt, hassling my white friends that traveled with me, crowded, dirty.

2) Paris, rude citizens, had to wait forever to see Mona Lisa, they disliked speaking English, not service minded personnel at restaurants.

3) Las Vegas, not a gambler, David Copperfield's show was boring, he felt like he had done this same act a million times, bought a steak for $150 not including sides and it tasted bland. Too hot as well.
 
Denter said:
Has anyone ever had a positive experience in Egypt?
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Julius Caesar did.

I also have two friends who spent three weeks in Egypt about 4 years ago. They arrived about two weeks before everything happened, and spent the last week in an embassy, but I understand that apart from that they enjoyed themselves.
 
Trotsky said:
I have an Iranian-born friend whose family had to move to Saudi Arabia. When I first met him in the States, he said that his only goal for his time here was to get a girlfriend: just having a girlfriend he could spend time in public and private with. He said that, in Saudi Arabia, if you were seen in public fraternizing with a woman not within your nuclear family, you would be lashed publicly. He said that romantic networking was confined to elicit online dating sites.
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Iranians don't get invited to all the cool embassy parties. Tons of alcohol as well, in case you didn't know.
 
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