How many have you dined in ?

[anil]

Based on The Countries in the Century Club how many have you'll dined in ?

even though this list is skewed, the diversity of the places in fascinating

It might take me a few days just to compile one ?

[Stone]

Interesting that it lists Kashmir and Palestine as a countries.

[anil]

Interesting that it lists Kashmir and Palestine as a countries.

And also Alaska, and Falkland Islands. There is blurb at the bottom -

"THIS LIST IS RECOGNIZED BY THE WORLD AS THE STANDARD OF

COUNTRIES AND DESTINATIONS THAT ARE POLITICALLY,

ETHNOLOGICALLY OR GEOGRAPHICALLY DIFFERENT."

[StephenT]

I take it that going go Djibouti and eating at McDonalds wouldn't count.

[cakewalk]

RECOGNIZED BY THE WORLD

Interesting convergence of words. What could it possibly mean?

[Suvir Saran]

RECOGNIZED BY THE WORLD

Interesting convergence of words. What could it possibly mean?

We think UNILATERAL these days!

[Fat Guy]

"After considertion as to how long one must have stayed in a country or island group to qualify, it was decided that even the shortest visit would suffice — even if only a port-of-call, or a plane fuel stop."

I feel sad for people who consider a plane fuel stop to be a visit to a country. And I feel even sadder for people who feel the need to be members of pathetic "clubs" like this one.

[polly]

A couple of thoughts:

It's a very odd club

Do you usually eat a meal during a plane re-fuelling pit-stop?

I have eaten in about 14 countries and would love to eat in many more, but it seems really bizarre to have to make an official club out of it...

[Matthew Grant]

I feel sad for people who consider a plane fuel stop to be a visit to a country.

During our Backpacking days we bumped into a lot of travellers (as you might imagine ) who were on Whistlestop tours of the World or Europe. I'm afraid the main culprits were American teenagers. One exchange went as follows:

Them: How long have you been in Turkey?

Us: About 6 weeks

Them: 6 weeks! What have you been doing?

(They thought this was hilarious, they actually laughed mockingly at us!)

Us: How Long have you been away?

Them: 2 weeks - we go home next week.

Us: Where have you been?

Them: London, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, Germany, Rome, Florence, Athens, Greek Islands and now Turkey. We're going to Israel next.

Us: Did you enjoy London?

Them: It was fantastic

Us: How long were you there?

Them: Just an Afternoon.....

[anil]

"After considertion as to how long one must have stayed in a country or island group to qualify, it was decided that even the shortest visit would suffice — even if only a port-of-call, or a plane fuel stop."

I feel sad for people who consider a plane fuel stop to be a visit to a country. And I feel even sadder for people who feel the need to be members of pathetic "clubs" like this one.

Guess what !! I concur - By their standards, I'm way way up there

However, some of what they consider as countries are skewed

[anil]

........

Them: How long have you been in Turkey?

Us: About 6 weeks

.....

In all honesty, I could never get six weeks off - Heck I cannot take more than 10 days at a time. This is the reality we live by. Having said that, we do

visit same places many times. LON often, BCN a few times, CDG more than we admit to...

The only people who get stretch of time off are faculty - Summer off

[jaybee]

22 so far:

France

England

Germany

Holland

Italy

Belgium

Denmark

Switzerland

Austria

Spain

China

Japan

Israel

Mexico

Canada

US

Argentina

Brazil

Puerto Rico

Gibralter

Monaco

Hong Kong

[Suvir Saran]

22 so far:

France

England

Germany

Holland

Italy

Belgium

Denmark

Switzerland

Austria

Spain

China

Japan

Israel

Mexico

Canada

US

Argentina

Brazil

Puerto Rico

Gibralter

Monaco

Hong Kong

Impressive!

[Fat Guy]

I'm at 25-27 depending on a couple of definitional issues (like what these people think are the boundaries of Palestine), but it's so easy to get there if you've been on a few Caribbean cruises -- which I have. But the list is pretty dumb. I mean, there's a lot more cultural difference between, say, Quebec and British Columbia than there is among most Caribbean nations -- and I can't believe you get two points for St. Martin and St. Maarten but the entire continental United States counts as one. If there is a way to quantify how well traveled someone is, it has to take into account not only nations visited but also meaningful subdivisions of those nations -- especially when we're talking about ones that may be 3000 miles coast-to-coast. It also has to take into account depth of experience, even if that is only measured in the shallowest way by number of days spent in each place.

I bet my wife is somewhere in the 100 range, though.

[jaybee]

(jaybee @ Oct 1 2002, 08:52 PM)

22 so far:

France

England

Germany

Holland

Italy

Belgium

Denmark

Switzerland

Austria

Spain

China

Japan

Israel

Mexico

Canada

US

Argentina

Brazil

Puerto Rico

Gibralter

Monaco

Hong Kong

Impressive!

No, the ad agency business!

[Charles Smith]

To matthew's point, I spent about 5 months tooling around Europe a few years back and the non-Americans I met thought that was very strange for an american-

Americans usually spend 1 month, Canadians, 3 months, Aussies, 6 months to a year. 32's my count, BTW.

[Wilfrid]

Oh good, now we have a list typed up, I can just edit it

France

UK

Republic of Ireland

Germany

Holland

Italy

Belgium

Austria

Spain

Canada

US

Thailand

Singapore

Australia

Dominican Republic

Portugal

Turkey

I wish I'd had Jaybee's help when I was trying to list all the countries I'd visited in the last ten years for the INS earlier this week.

Edit: Dammit, forgot a continent.

Tunisia

Morocco

[Peter B Wolf]

47 from the list, should I list? Yes, no "stopovers", ate at least one meal, often many more.

[sladeums]

1

[anil]

47 from the list, should I list? Yes, no "stopovers", ate at least one meal, often many more.

Go for it

[Peter B Wolf]

47 from the list, should I list? Yes, no "stopovers", ate at least one meal, often many more.

Go for it

So I went: (but I miscounted, on the original, sorry)

Guam , Hawaiian Islands , Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa) , Wake Island

Alaska , Canada , Mexico , United States (continental)

Panama , Colombia , Venezuela

Dominican Republic , Haiti

Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) , Iceland

Andorra , Austria , Belgium , Czech Federated Rep. , Denmark , England , France , Germany , Hungary , Italy , Liechtenstein , Luxembourg , Monaco , Montenegro , Netherlands , Norway , Portugal , Romania, Spain , Switzerland

Egypt , Israel

Japan , Korea South , Philippines

[gknl]

France

England

Scotland

Germany

Netherlands

Italy

Belgium

Denmark

Sweden

Norway

Switzerland

Austria

Czechoslovakia (before the split)

Hong Kong

Alabama

[Biscotti]

I have eaten in 25 and plan on eating in many more!!

Spain

France

Italy

Denmark

Canada

Japan

Hong Kong

China

Mexico

Costa Rica

Belize

Nicaragua

United States

Hawaiian Islands

Cayman Islands

Puerto Rico

Greece

Monaco

Norway

England

Hungary

Turkey

Sweden

Switzerland

Honduras

[jordyn]

The scary part about my list (to me) is how much of the diversity is from the past two years. I'm not counting Germany, where I've eaten, but only in airports--you have to leave the airport for the visit to count. So, I count 31 "areas" or 28 real countries (Hawaii, Scotland, Northern Ireland go away) on my list:

Fiji, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand

United States, Canada, Mexico

Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Uruguay

Aruba, Dominican Republic

England, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, France, Netherlands, Austria, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland

Ghana, Zimbabwe, South Africa

Singapore, Hong Kong

[yvonne johnson]

Let's see:

Bismark Archipelago

Kiribati (Gilberts,Tarawa, Ocean Island)

Palau, Republic of

Argentine South Pole

OK, only joshing

Hawaiian Islands

Canada

Mexico

Venezuela

Belgium

Barbados

Martinique

Puerto Rico

Trinidad & Tobago

Crete

England

France

Germany

Ireland (Eire)

Italy

Luxembourg

Malta

Netherlands

Norway

Scotland

Spain

Wales

Kuwait

USA