Have you ever been abroad? Which countries have you visited?
Many times, pretty much at least once per year for like ten or more years now. No, I'm not kidding.
We have a family tradition where we clear out of the house for a one-month vacation each Summer. We stow a tent and a ridiculous amount of baggage into our car, then drive from camping-place to camping-place. We usually don't stay all that long at any single one, so we'll probably see seven to ten or more places each trip --
Wait, I forgot a crucial detail here.
The reason these trips are international is that we generally get out of the country quickly. A few times, we've used the Sweden-Denmark bridge connection; these days, we take a boat from I think Gothenburg to Kiel, getting us to Germany with an admirable lack of fuss.
After we get to Germany we generally rush down to France, because the weather in Germany is consistently shitty. Things haven't always been this formulaic in the past though, and for one vacation, we instead took the boat to Poland. yes, Poland. Holy fuck things were cheap there, we ate out every day. With our usual wandering spirit, we eventually made our way down to Croatia...
At this point I would be remiss to point out that we've also spent a more "traditional" one-week holiday on Crete, which happens to be an island belonging to Greece. Oh, and we took a one-week trip to Cape Verde as well... Both by air.
So how many countries have I been in, beside Sweden? Hmm... From what I know, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, France, Spain, Andorra, Poland, Greece, Cape Verde, Poland, I think both Slovakia and the Czech Republic, Croatia...
...*pulls up map* HOLY SHIT I DIDN'T MENTALLY REALIZE POLAND WAS THERE I THOUGHT IT WAS MORE NORTH AND RIGHT SOMEHOW WHICH IS SILLY BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S CLOSE TO GERMANY BUT THOSE TWO DISPARATE IDEAS NEVER CLICKED SOMEHOW THIS IS REALLY WEIRD.
Looking at the map... I'm not sure which of Austria and Hungary we passed through to get to Croatia, and whether we dipped into Slovenia or not.
Anyway that makes up around 15 countries, it seems. Decent list? I could add that my parents visited Russia after I was conceived as well, not sure how far in my mum was...
Random extra: My mum is the family's only driver.
We have a family tradition where we clear out of the house for a one-month vacation each Summer. We stow a tent and a ridiculous amount of baggage into our car, then drive from camping-place to camping-place. We usually don't stay all that long at any single one, so we'll probably see seven to ten or more places each trip --
Wait, I forgot a crucial detail here.
The reason these trips are international is that we generally get out of the country quickly. A few times, we've used the Sweden-Denmark bridge connection; these days, we take a boat from I think Gothenburg to Kiel, getting us to Germany with an admirable lack of fuss.
After we get to Germany we generally rush down to France, because the weather in Germany is consistently shitty. Things haven't always been this formulaic in the past though, and for one vacation, we instead took the boat to Poland. yes, Poland. Holy fuck things were cheap there, we ate out every day. With our usual wandering spirit, we eventually made our way down to Croatia...
At this point I would be remiss to point out that we've also spent a more "traditional" one-week holiday on Crete, which happens to be an island belonging to Greece. Oh, and we took a one-week trip to Cape Verde as well... Both by air.
So how many countries have I been in, beside Sweden? Hmm... From what I know, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, France, Spain, Andorra, Poland, Greece, Cape Verde, Poland, I think both Slovakia and the Czech Republic, Croatia...
...*pulls up map* HOLY SHIT I DIDN'T MENTALLY REALIZE POLAND WAS THERE I THOUGHT IT WAS MORE NORTH AND RIGHT SOMEHOW WHICH IS SILLY BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S CLOSE TO GERMANY BUT THOSE TWO DISPARATE IDEAS NEVER CLICKED SOMEHOW THIS IS REALLY WEIRD.
Looking at the map... I'm not sure which of Austria and Hungary we passed through to get to Croatia, and whether we dipped into Slovenia or not.
Anyway that makes up around 15 countries, it seems. Decent list? I could add that my parents visited Russia after I was conceived as well, not sure how far in my mum was...
Random extra: My mum is the family's only driver.
