What countries do you just not give a toss about?

Fretwired

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Fretwired said:

It's  politicans who suck ..

ftfy

@Phil_aka_Pip .. can't argue with that .. :-)

HAL9000

richardhomer;579471" said:

All Benelux countries....

Yes, but their three peaks challenge is a lot easier than ours.

jonnyburgo

Really looking forward to Japan, the only perturbing thing I've read is that their are no signs in English, all that technology and they can't learn to speak English FFS

Cirrus

Heartfeltdawn;579229" said:

In terms of places I don't care about visiting:

France. Just about everyone I know who has visited Paris has described it as an overpriced dirty place. I'd visit some of the old war sites, Dunkirk obviously, but no interest in the big cities really. So let's call it ambivalent. 

Australia. It's a fucking long way to travel, all that time in a plane would bore me rigid, I don't care about going to the beach, and it's got a lot of poisonous and generally disagreeable creatures there (and that's just the Sheilas. Arf.).

Last summer we drove down to Italy over a fortnight stopping in various places along the way. If you're interested in the old war stuff, I'd recommend Ypres - lots to see and do within 30 mins drive of there, as well as being a nice town. I thought Dunkirk felt like a British seaside town but with less friendly people, but to be fair we only stopped there for a couple of hours and the museums were all closing...

As for Oz, having lived there for 3 years as a kid I'd love to go back... but it is a looong way.

axisus

Show me one of those globe things.

Yeah, those are the countries I don't give a toss about.

holnrew

Mexico, seen to many gang killing videos to even think about it.

Luminous

The US......the bane of the world ( and China , never fancied it )

Flanging_Fred

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about Burundi to be honest.

jonnyburgo

Sierra Leone looks a bit shit to be honest

Phil_aka_Pip

jonnyburgo said:

Sierra Leone looks a bit shit to be honest

All Africa is. Why else do you think they're all queueing up at Calais to get in here?

Sassafras

Czechoslovakia, I've seen Hostel, I know what happens there.

Sassafras

A lot of middle eastern countries turn me off, unless you like living in the stone age.

And everyone's got a Kalashnikov. That puts me off too.

Sambostar

Sassafras said:

A lot of middle eastern countries turn me off, unless you like living in the stone age.

And everyone's got a Kalashnikov. That puts me off too.

Usually it's the Highland people that are nutters, from Scotland to Afghanistan to Italy to Vietnam, it's the same thing all over the world.  Remote highlanders are a law unto themselves.  Afghanistan will never be tamed because it has always been the way it's been.  Equally well, valley people are kind of nuts too, but not as nuts as the highlanders.

Heartfeltdawn

Cirrus said:

Last summer we drove down to Italy over a fortnight stopping in various places along the way. If you're interested in the old war stuff, I'd recommend Ypres - lots to see and do within 30 mins drive of there, as well as being a nice town. I thought Dunkirk felt like a British seaside town but with less friendly people, but to be fair we only stopped there for a couple of hours and the museums were all closing...

As for Oz, having lived there for 3 years as a kid I'd love to go back... but it is a looong way.

I'd definitely go to Oradour-sur-Glanes. 

Paul_C

equalsql said:

Greenland... what's that all about then eh?
Talk about false advertising.. not a blade of grass in sight.
Ruined my picnic that did.

you must have missed the sign:

Phil_aka_Pip

Paul_C said:

equalsql said:

Greenland... what's that all about then eh?
Talk about false advertising.. not a blade of grass in sight.
Ruined my picnic that did.

you must have missed the sign:

I want that house on the peninsula in the lower left of the pic

Sambostar

I'd love to go to the Congo or Zambia in the wet season.  Most magically place on earth.

Axe_meister

The US. Boston is nice because it's fairly European new York was OK. But having been to Philly and Florida the whole place just lacks a soul. Very much so Australia. Guess its a new world thing. Hated south Africa. Likewise not a fan of the middle east.
Europe has some fantastic cities and I want to do the South American continent.

Sambostar

I hated America until I went there.  The lifestyle fits perfectly.  Work hard, do up your SS Chevelle at the weekend or live in a trailer home under the overpass, whatever.  Great country, where people still stop to offer you a ride....if you're white and a redneck and men still take offence if you offer to shovel snow for them or can shovel it faster, because you're an efficient English machine and they can't do anything without a machine and have crap long handles shovels that belong on a pub wall.

Axe_meister

I just America so boring. Identicate town after identicate town. Everything arranged in a grid, very dirty. No culture outside of the big cities.