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by **ardypilot** » Wed May 14, 2008 6:31 pm

After the recent popular ‘planes you have flown on’ topic and Happy Travelers photos from South Korea, I had the idea to create a post listing countries in the world that us members have visited, and maybe we can share opinions about destinations we have been too- so far, this is mine:

New Zealand (all over)
Australia (Gold Coast, Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Byron Bay)
Cook Islands (Rarotonga)
England (all over)
Wales (Brecon Beacons)
Germany (Frankfurt)
Greece (Thessaloniki and Halkidiki)
Greek Islands (Rhodes, Kos and Corfu)
Spain (Barcelona)
Balearic Islands (Majorca)
Canary Islands (Grand Canaria and Fuerteventura)
United States of America (Los Angeles, Anaheim, Long Beach)
Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)
Indonesia (Bali, and Jakata in transit)
Japan (Osaka)

And this year I plan to add Brunei, United Arab Emirates, and Ireland or Holland to this list

by **Daniel** » Wed May 14, 2008 6:44 pm

Hey guys

Here is my list.

New Zealand
New Caledonia (Noumea)
Australia (Brisbane and Gold Coast)
Thailand (Bangkok)
Japan (Osaka and Tokyo)
England (London and other places i cant remember)
France (Paris)
Greece (Athens)
Greek Islands (Santorini, Mykanos, Paros)

I think thats about it

If anyone wants to know anything about any of these countries i am happy to share opinions etc
I hope to add Italy next year and with that possibly other European countries.

Cheers
Daniel

by **Kelburn** » Wed May 14, 2008 6:59 pm

In order:

New Zealand,
Malaysia,
Singapore,
Australia,
Vietnam,
(Singapore),

Next year.

Turkey, Germany, France, England.

Quite Possibly Samoa as well next year.

by **yak52dude** » Wed May 14, 2008 7:02 pm

Heres my list:

Australia (4 times)
Canada

by **benwynn** » Wed May 14, 2008 7:06 pm

Not Counting Aus/NZ

Fiji
Singapore
Malaysia
Thailand

by **deaneb** » Wed May 14, 2008 7:16 pm

Australia - Adelaide, Nowra, Darwin, Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Townsville
Singapore
Malaysia
US - Honolulu, Denver, San Francisco, Seattle
Canada - Edmonton, Nova Scotia
Fiji
Western Samoa

Many of my trips have been on RNZAF aircraft and some stops were just overnighters en-route.

Deane

by **victor_alpha_charlie** » Wed May 14, 2008 7:59 pm

Pretty much everywhere in NZ, plus

Australia (Sydney, Darwin, Brisbane, Alice, Toowomba, Sunshine Coast, Cairns)
Fiji (We go once a year- going again in September)
Malaysia (KL)
Italy (Rome, Umbria region, Firenze, Venice, Lake District)
Switzerland (Lauterbrunnen (Interlaken Area), Zurich)
and probably my most interesting one,

Timor Leste (East Timor)

Hope to add the USA (Phoenix, Marana (Both Arizona) and Honolulu) to my list by year's end.

How did I find them all?
Australia: Well everyone knows Australia
Fiji: Same goes for Oz?
Malaysia: Didn't see much, only the airport, a motorway and a hotel, but it seemed very 'high-tech' almost. Hot and incredibly humid. Wouldn't want to do anything strenuous outside.
Italy: Overall my favourite country in the world. Too much to put down here really, but everyone/everything is so full of life. Nice and warm but also fairly dry.
Switzerland: Just like the pictures. Green. :lol:

. Zurich felt like home. The same sort of feeling as standing on Wellington's waterfront on a still summer evening. Just perfect.
Timor Leste: Just after the war in 2002. Almost a bit like Fiji, very poor, with no road-rules

. Poverty was everywhere.

by **Kelburn** » Wed May 14, 2008 9:16 pm

For me.

Malaysia was exciting.
First time overseas! Very humid. Exhausted first day but Jetlag soon left and I was nice and energetic. Spent Three week there. Enjoyed the resort islands The Perhentians. (I went to mainly Penang but also K.L. and Johor Bahru, Kota Bahru and Singapore). Can't remember too much but I did also enjoy the Petronas Towers (and KLIA of course!)

Australia. My next getaway.
Flew to Melbourne on xmas day met up with family friends. Had fun. We were there on the coldest Christmas Australia has ever had. Wouldn't you know it. You escape the NZ Coldness to go to warm Aus and it hails on making the main shopping street whiter that New York on xmas. We also went up the coast having a few stops eventually getting to Canberra and then onto Sydney.

Vietnam.
28 Hour xmas! (though not too exciting except, I was on a plane then again yay!) Went from North to South. Going into the very, very, very, very anti American (I wonder why :lol:

), communist looking museums. It was fun crossing the road. (Roads as wide as half of K'road with about twice as much traffic, all of it motorbikes, tooting with the only crossing option being walk out and hope that they are proficient enough to miss you (which they always are))

Hopefully I get to go to Samoa next year (dependent on when the trip will be held as it includes some more distant but close relatives. This is mainly due to Europe and NCEA)

I wonder what Europe will be like...
apparently the French are nice to us (lucky N.Z.)

by **chopper_nut** » Wed May 14, 2008 9:53 pm

My list:

ALL of NZ
Australia - Pretty much all of the East coast and many times
US - All of the West Coast from San Fran south to the boarder (lots of tankers!!!)
Germany - Frankfurt Main Airport (lots of guards armed with H&Ks)
UK - From London up to Inverness in Scotland and then down the West Coast to Yeovleton and back to London
Norway - From Oslo east
Sweeden - From Norway east and south
Denmark - Copenhagen over to the mainland for Legoland and then back to Copenhagen
Hong Kong - Everywhere, but thats not too difficult in a place like that

Only a few places I want to visit. Canada - for the aeroplanes, Alaska - for the aeroplanes, Oregon - for the aeroplanes, Vietnam - just really want to have a look at the US installations and go to Vung Tau and Nui Dat where the our gallant soldiers fought. Long Tan is quite high on my list aswell for obvious reasons.

by **HardCorePawn** » Thu May 15, 2008 9:20 am

NZ - well duh...

Australia (Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Port Macquarie (a 3 month trip that lasted 2 years ) + Newcastle, Maroochydore, Byron Bay, Bellina, Surfers Paradise)
Indonesia (Bali)
Singapore
Malaysia (Penang, KL, the Genting Highlands and Jahor Baru)
Hong Kong (and Hong Kong S.A.R. )
Thailand (Hat Yai)
Macau (omg, do they gamble!)
China (Shenzhen S.E.Z.)
Denmark (Copenhagen)
Sweden (Malmo)
UK (does transiting through LHR count? I didnt actually clear immigration, so technically still airside and not in the UK )
USA (Hawaii, New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles, San Diego)
Mexico (Tijuana)

by **creator2003** » Thu May 15, 2008 9:35 am

Australia : Adelaide/melb /Sydy/Bris/ Gold Coast, and are back to Adelaide next week for a trip
UK
Singapore
norfolk Island
still got more to do as the kids will be all grown up soon :plane:

by **A185F** » Thu May 15, 2008 10:36 am

Dam lucky people. Ive only been to oz (5 or so), states (twice) and Mexico (supposidy 27 times, they let us group of kids play on the boarder when I went there)

by **FlyingKiwi** » Thu May 15, 2008 7:32 pm

Australia (5 times, - a sixth planned for a few month's time. I've visited all states except Tasmania, NT and ACT) Also had a few stopovers in Sydney and Brisbane while on the way to other places.

French Polynesia (specifically the main island of Tahiti and Moorea)

USA (twice - been to New York, Washington D.C. and California, and also New Jersey, Missouri and Hawaii while in transit)

UK (twice - been all over England, and a brief foray over the border into Wales)

Singapore (four times, all while transiting to other places, but I've spent a few days there in total)

Thailand (twice, also while in transit but again I had a few days in Bangkok)

United Arab Emirates (twice, in transit)

Italy (twice, the second time got to watch Italy win the football world cup while in Rome, biggest party ever!)

Vatican City (twice)

Greece (just the one visit)

Egypt (one visit a few years ago, would love to go back)

Zimbabwe (been there once - also came within a few footsteps of being able to add Zambia to my list of visited countries)

by **victor_alpha_charlie** » Thu May 15, 2008 10:31 pm

Ah yes. I should add the Vatican too

Straight after flying cattle class for 30 hours..

by **ardypilot** » Sat May 17, 2008 10:43 am

Thanks for your interesting contributions people- we are quite a well travelled bunch aren’t we. I've just updated my first post with the specific areas that I visited in my country to match everyone else's replys.

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Malaysia: Didn't see much, only the airport, a motorway and a hotel, but it seemed very 'high-tech' almost. Hot and incredibly humid. Wouldn't want to do anything strenuous outside.[/quote]
Yeah, KL was so bloody humid. I remember I couldn't manage walking down the city street for more than 100 meters before ducking into an air conditioned shop for a few minutes rest.. loads of cheap things to buy around town though!

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Can't remember too much but I did also enjoy the Petronas Towers (and KLIA of course!)[/quote]
We went up both the Petronas Towers and the KL Tower- the latter of which was way more impressive because the viewing deck was far higher than the bridge between the Petronas Towers. (Pic from there below)

After coming down from that bridge, we bought a KFC take away and walked the park at the base of the complex to eat it... worst decision ever! The Malyasian version of KFC is 100x spicer than an ordinary meal by NZ standards, and the heat in the shade was just unbearable. Loved our the place we stayed at though- the Swiss Garden Hotel, complete with rooftop swimming pool

Good times!

At the time of our visit to KLIA, SARS had just broken out, and it was the first airport we had been to where everyone was wearing those little white face masks, that's the only think I can remember about the airport.

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China (Shenzhen S.E.Z.)[/quote]
Interesting destination... business or pleasure?

QUOTE

Italy (twice, the second time got to watch Italy win the football world cup while in Rome, biggest party ever!)

Vatican City (twice)

Greece (just the one visit)[/quote]
I think I saw the snaps from that on your bebo page- am I right in thinking you went on a Eurotrip with your mates a few years back?

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by Kelburn » Sat May 17, 2008 12:24 pm

We stayed at MiCasa (spelling?) Enjoyed K.L. the malaysian shopping malls are much, much better than New Zealand.

Trolley do you remember seeing (maybe from the Petronas Towers) the crossroads which were tow highways just north of the Petronas Towers?

(see the picture)

but we needed to find our hotel after arriving @ K.L. from Penang on the overnight train. We ended up finding the hotel but first we had to cross this road. The lights gave us under 10s. (As soon as we reached the other side, a large herd of busses and taxis wooshed past us)

Green is my rushed route.
Blue is the divider in the middle
Red is the lanes

Isn't it evident?? Boeing are my favourite aircraft.

P.S. that's is my real birthday but I wish to keep my real age secret to keep you all pondering.

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by FlyingKiwi » Sat May 17, 2008 7:19 pm

Trolly wrote:
QUOTE (Trolly @ May 21 2008, 11:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I think I saw the snaps from that on your bebo page- am I right in thinking you went on a Eurotrip with your mates a few years back?

Yes, that's correct.

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by Airtrainer » Mon May 19, 2008 12:01 pm

There are six main groups this contries go in; postings with my dad, family world trip in 91 when my dad retired from the RNZAF, school trip to NT, cadet trips to OZ and two trips in 2006 and 2007 in the USA and Europe.

New Zealand
Australia (Melbourne, Alice Springs, Darwin, Ayers Rock (and other places in NT), Adelaide, Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Gold Coast)
Singapore (lived there for just over 2 years when my dad was posted their with 3 SQN)
United Kingdom (Scotland & England mainly, also lived there for a year while my dad was posted there)
Malaysia & Thailand (when we lived in Singapore not sure where)
Japan (Tokyo)
USA (Major Cities/Attractions: New York, Washington DC, Orlando, Miami, Honolulu, San Francisco, Chicago, Buffalo, Denver, Grand Canyon NP, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Yosemite NP, Arches NP, San Diego, plus others)
Canada (Niagara Falls, Toronto)
Denmark (Copenhagen)
Italy (Venice, Rome)
Egypt (Cairo, Aswan, Luxor, Dahab)
Vatican City
Greece (Athens, Meteora, Kavalla)
Turkey (Gallipoli, Istanbul)
Bulgaria (Sofia)
Romania (Bucharest, Brasov, Cluj Napoca)
Hungary (Budapest)
Slovakia (Bratislava)
Austria (Vienna)
Czech Republic (Prague)
Poland (Krakow, Warsaw)
Germany (Berlin, plus other places in "91)
Netherlands (Amsterdam)
Belgium (Transit)
France (Paris, plus other places in "91)
United Arab Emirates (Dubai)