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Foreign Countries!
xWonderboyx
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I'm in the U.S. Navy on a submarine. I just got back from a deployment (well, the last two months of one) and I managed to visit two (2) whole ports! While not that exciting in itself, I want this thread to be about your crazy world travels. Also, for those of you somewhere not United States, your travels to the U.S. do count as foreign travels.
Anyway, here are some pictures:
First port I went to was Gibraltar. I didn't get too many pictures because I was busy being the drunken sailor my parents always knew I would grow up to be. What I did get was kind of shitty.
Some statue of some guy I really don't care about.
A living statue. Bastard flipped me off after I took his picture. I thought those guys weren't supposed to move.
Some fort.
Better picture of some fort.
I'm so immature.
The bar I spent most of my time in.
The following pictures are from our visit to Tromso, Norway. It was cold. And mountain-y.
My friend standing topside sentry.
Mountains as seen from the forward end of the ship.
Standing in the center looking back (aft).
My first time seeing sunlight in more than six weeks. Thank god Norway isn't known for its long sunny days.
Grainy dusk picture of the city. Beers were 10 dollars a bottle there. I should have saved my money. The big triangle building is some famous church. I'm not very good at being a tourist so I never went.
I guess that about does it for my travels (so far...). Please add to this so I don't look like a fool.
Anyway, here are some pictures:
First port I went to was Gibraltar. I didn't get too many pictures because I was busy being the drunken sailor my parents always knew I would grow up to be. What I did get was kind of shitty.
Some statue of some guy I really don't care about.
A living statue. Bastard flipped me off after I took his picture. I thought those guys weren't supposed to move.
Some fort.
Better picture of some fort.
I'm so immature.
The bar I spent most of my time in.
The following pictures are from our visit to Tromso, Norway. It was cold. And mountain-y.
My friend standing topside sentry.
Mountains as seen from the forward end of the ship.
Standing in the center looking back (aft).
My first time seeing sunlight in more than six weeks. Thank god Norway isn't known for its long sunny days.
Grainy dusk picture of the city. Beers were 10 dollars a bottle there. I should have saved my money. The big triangle building is some famous church. I'm not very good at being a tourist so I never went.
I guess that about does it for my travels (so far...). Please add to this so I don't look like a fool.
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Everyone should come visit me.
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I'd love to sail in a freakin Virginia.
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Nah, I'm on an old-ass 688 (Los Angeles Class). I don't know how I would feel about a Virginia. They're all new and fancy, but they don't have all the bugs worked out and the living spaces are tiny tiny tiny.
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Do brief excursions to Gatlinburg, TN or Birmingham, AL (from Georgia) count?
I paid fucking 144 kr for a Kilkenny and Stella Artois!
It was so fucking expensive I went back to bar and said, "Look, you must have made some mistake". They just laughed and said, "You,re not in Denmark now".
ugh
My wife is from Alabama, so yes, that counts as a foreign country.
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During winter.
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Wholly!
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My dad can haggle his ass off. The vendors there love it, apparently. I got me a gueetar and a sombrero out of it.
And some totally legal fireworks.
Shit, we have people in Quebec that can't speak english.
But conformity is diversity!
the canadian side
Well, think about it. How else are the French supposed to express their disgust with drunken Englishmen and fat rude Americans and their foreign policy? It wouldn't have the same impact in French.
Do you find it easier to travel to most of those countries living in such close proximity? My wife wants to one day live in Europe because she envisions it as a traveler's paradise where crossing country borders is like crossing state lines over here. I can only hope she is right.
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• USA
• England
• Ireland
• Singapore
• France
that is all.
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Moved to the UK at 16 (the day I turned 16 in fact), started out in Dartford, I eventually left home to stay in Clapton, London for a while. I travelled some of Europe (France, Germany, Spain), Turkey, and went on an awesome roadtrip from New York to Portland and back through to Dallas. I was supposed to fly back to England from New York, but our car broke down coming out of the Rockies and we ended up coasting our way to a gas station, walking from there to Dallas Airport. My friend went back to Portland to stay with someone we knew and I spent 2 days waiting in Dallas Airport for a flight to London after getting some money wired to me.
I've been many places in the UK, even spent a few nights rough on the streets in Glasgow.
I would travel more if I didn't spend my all my pay on the weekend
I've known a good deal of Americans who came to Europe to live where ever. They certainly never had any problems traveling back and forth between countries.
Edit: Also, it is extremely easy to go to other countries. With good planning transport will cost you next to nothing.
How's the Navy treating you? Besides taking you to Snoreway, that is.
Also, I have never left the US. One of these days!
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been to
india
germany
japan
norway
hong kong
singapore
malaysia
china
thailand
usa
france
new zealand
fiji
i think thats it
and most of them ive been to at least a couple of times
growing up id alternately go to india or europe every year
Also Bolivia so I can kill mass quantities of doves and let the villagers eat them.
I would be sustaining the economy, helping people survive, and killing small defenseless animals at the same time.
at least last year i went to new zealand at the start sometime
I'm Canadian.
This was the most beautiful sight I had ever seen.
edit: I took that picture. You can save it if you like.
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It's needed a lot more in Europe, where you have a bunch of small countries with different languages packed together. Knowing more then one language is almost required just to get by.
Compare that to the US, which is bigger then the entire continent and speaks one language. There's much less of a need to know more then one.