The Marmot’s Hole

6 Comments

1. dda
   Posted January 31, 2004 at 6:27 pm | Permalink

   One day in the UK? Should be enough for a lifetime then…

2. Kevin Kim
   Posted February 1, 2004 at 2:18 am | Permalink

   I saw this map thingy on the blog called Cobb a while back.

   My list:

   France (lived briefly in Nice, spent time in Nantes/Carquefou, have been to Paris, Verdun, Chartres, Strasbourg, Cherbourg, etc.)
   Switzerland (lived in Fribourg/Freiburg for a year with a Swiss host family; it changed my French accent into something more Germanic)
   Luxembourg (day trip)
   Belgium (day trip– didn’t get to hear “octante”)
   Denmark (passing through)
   Holland (passing through)
   Sweden (Stockholm was amazing)
   Germany (Berlin Wall, 9 days after it started to come down in 1989, baby– saw the people with the sledgehammers; also visited Munich & Heidelberg)
   Austria (passing through)
   Italy (Rome… not the greatest experience)
   Monaco (HA! a brief walk through it while living in Nice!)
   South Korea (go figger)
   Japan (Fukuoka– where else for visa-jumpers)
   Canada
   England

   Et voilà.

   And when you plot all that on the map, you see it’s not very damn much. Heh.

   Strangely, I’ve never been to Spain.

   And I’d love to visit Iceland.

   Kevin

3. Nathan
   Posted February 1, 2004 at 2:53 am | Permalink

   Here’s my guideline for whether or not I’ve “been” somewhere:

   Did I piss there?

   So, because I’ve driven through Kazakstan a number of times but never stopped to leave my scent, I can’t justify saying I’ve been there.

   So, if you relieved yourself in the UK, you were there.

4. dda
   Posted February 1, 2004 at 10:49 am | Permalink

   Octante is *NOT* Belgian…
   http://www.langue-fr.net/index/S/septante.htm

5. Todd
   Posted February 1, 2004 at 10:19 pm | Permalink

   Well, this is where I have been…

   Countries Visited (in order of entry)

   1. United States (42 states plus DC)
   2. Canada
   3. Finland (Two transits)
   4. Russia (Twice??р€쓜as USSR when visited)
   5. Denmark (One visit, one transit)
   6. Sweden (One transit)
   7. France (Two visits, one transit)
   8. Bermuda (Twice)
   9. Mexico
   10. South Korea (have lived in for 5 years??р€?8 entries as of 2004/1/06)
   11. Japan (5X, many transits)
   12. Thailand (4X, a few transits)
   13. Taiwan (one visit, one transit)
   14. Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan)
   15. China (3X)
   16. Hong Kong (one visit, 2 transits)
   17. Singapore (Twice)
   18. Malaysia
   19. Indonesia
   20. North Korea
   21. Vietnam
   22. Laos (Twice)
   23. Cambodia
   24. Myanmar (Twice)
   25. Iceland (1 visit, 1 transit)
   26. United Kingdom (2 entries on same Europe tour)
   27. Netherlands
   28. Belgium (one visit, one transit)
   29. Australia
   30. Mongolia

6. Daniel Mckellen
   Posted February 1, 2004 at 11:39 pm | Permalink

   1.United States
   2. United Kingdom
   3. France
   4. Germany
   5. Belgium
   6. Holland
   7. Luxemburg
   8. Poland
   9. Austria
   10. Italy
   11. Greece
   12. Turkey
   13. South Korea
   14. Japan
   15. China
   16. Singapore
   17. Hong Kong
   18. Austrailia
   19. Canada
   20. Egypt
   21. Iraq (during the war in 2003!)
   22. Israel
   23. Argentina