Countries you have visited and will never go back.

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Chislenko

Veteran
To be honest anywhere that now entails long haul.

I probably share this reservation with the other DVT sufferers on here.
 

Gillstay

Veteran
That pretty much mirrors the places I have been.

Went to see Wales play USA in a friendly in San Jose but based ourselves in San Francisco for that trip.

On our second trip drove down from Calgary through Montana and then across to Seattle. Stayed there a few days then back up to Vancouver Island where my sister lives.

Like slowmotion we found the people friendly and polite.

Edit. Yes I am aware some of the trip was in Canada before someone wants to correct my geography!

Ah yes, San Jose. Nearest I got too being shot there. Went drinking in a different bar. Missed the guy who turned up with a blind man's handgun and shot 40 rounds into the place.
 
Went to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in the 70's but can't go back as they don't exist anymore.
Was in Portugal a few years ago, wasn't impressed!
 

yello

back and brave
To be honest anywhere that now entails long haul.

I probably share this reservation with the other DVT sufferers on here.

Ditto, but not because of DVT (and you have my sympathies btw). I just don't like air travel, and not because I'm preaching eco either. I like trains though. That said, I think my notions of train travel have become somewhat idealised - I think more of overnight Berlin to Vienna rather than the midweek 7:13 Sevenoaks to Charing Cross.

Tbh, I think my travelling days are over. I'm happy to pootle about locally and maybe the odd week away with my tent, but I can't see me venturing further. Never say never though.
 

GilesM

Legendary Member
Russia and Belarus, and that was before Putin decided he'd prove to everyone he really is nuts.
 

presta

Legendary Member
I presume I am highly unusual in this day and age as I have never left these shores. Only been to England and Wales. :laugh:
You've beaten me. I thought I was very untravelled, but I've been to Wales, Scotland, France, & Greece.
 

figbat

Slippery scientist

I'd love to go back to Canada - I did a 14-day driving holiday on the west side in 1996 and loved it; we were planning a family break there until Covid hit. But then again, rather like other large countries, Canada is a diverse place with a big east/west divide so I have no idea what most of it is like, only the bits from Calgary to Vancouver Island.
 

Grant Fondo

Legendary Member
I thought Mauritius was over-hyped and wouldn't go back. Maybe we picked the wrong area as I know people that are mad about the place?
 

Milzy

Guru
I'd love to go back to Canada - I did a 14-day driving holiday on the west side in 1996 and loved it; we were planning a family break there until Covid hit. But then again, rather like other large countries, Canada is a diverse place with a big east/west divide so I have no idea what most of it is like, only the bits from Calgary to Vancouver Island.

I toured the French side which is why it felt so alien to me.
 

robjh

Legendary Member
Syria and Russia. I found both of them fascinating if occasionally challenging, and normally I would have liked to visit again if the world had stayed as it was in 2000, but it hasn't. The devastation of Syria shows little sign of abating, and I think we are in for some very bad times to come with Russia, which puts any ideas of a repeat journey on the Trans-Siberian railway into the deep freeze.
 
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