jaffa-200

please tell us your top 5 countries

MINE ARE:
1.New zealand/clean green and hot beaches/best living
2.Mexico/ hot weather
3.Brazil/ beaches and landscape
4.Chile/beaches/lifestyle
5.Rarotonga/tropical beaches at its best!!

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1-Venezuela: beach, windsurf, my home, cheap gasoline
2-USA: lifestyle, cities, airports, music
3-UAE: modern architeture, emirates, arabian food
4-Portugal: nice, compact, my girlfriend
5-Spain: lifestyte, airport, music, culture

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Garuda747400

hi jaffa,

can you tell me a bit more about the cook islands , its a place i wanted to visit before i die / or possibly before global warming hits it , might have some money to blow and i am looking at tahiti / cook is or hawaii , Hawaii is surprisingly cheap to get to from uk

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jaffa-200

sure!! ok to start with theres the cook islands and Niue. The best of the cook islands is rarotonga (I think it is!!) and thats situated in southern cook islands it is a large volcano like island then north of that is Aitutaki Atoll. these a just to name a few. Also their neighbors a fiji, samoa, new calidonia, Tahiti etc.
yes hawaii is nice but is towards america and won't have the tropical warmth that you get down here in the pacific. If you really want the heat I suggest you go for fiji but if you won't a bit of everything and want to be situated on a lovely beach thats private then go for the cook islands or if you want the city the king country and the long long beaches come see us in New Zealand. In NZ I would recommend Bay of Islands, Tauranga, Mount Mangaunui and queenstown. And for aircraft models Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch
If you want to know anything else about the cook islands just let me know because there is alot more I can tell you!!

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1. China (Hong Kong)
2. Thailand
3. Indonesia
4. Australia
5. India

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From the countries i've visited, or live in this is my list.

5: United Kingdom. Although I live here, and love certain things like going to watch Stockport County home and away, the country is generally a s*** hole and being warn away for one reason or another.

4: Spain. Boring.

3: Portugal. Nice weather, and excellent sites out in the south, not from Faro. Get the feeling of being out in a deserted area.

2: France. My grand parents own a flat down in the south in Le Bacares, near Perpignan. Lovely weather. Great place to chill.

1: United States of America. Fun, fun, fun.

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jaffa-200

nice!!
keep them coming

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fultonhornet

5. Antigua & Barbuda - A nice little island. 365 beaches - one for everyday of the year. And i could stay for a year....lol.
4. Spain - Great culture. A lot of people complain about the food but i enjoyed it. Very warm weather and friendly people. flamenco was great!
3. Mexico - Fun country. Been 4 times, and would go back again.
2. France - Very laid back. Loved the Eiffel Tower and the little cafes
1. Aruba - Funny thing about the whole natalie holloway thing is, i felt the safest in Aruba of anywhere i have been. Aruba gets a bad rap for that incident and its a beautiful, exciting, amazing place.

SouthwestAirlines103

ugh I'm not an international traveler so I wouldn't know. The only time I've been out of the US was to eat at an Applebee's in Canada and that only lasted for like 2 hours. so here's my list.

1 USA I'v been here all my life - 2 hours.
2 Canada was there for two hours. food not so foreign. drinking age 19.

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So, don't tell me, you will fly there??


Anyway, I have only travelled a lot round Europe, and the countries I have visited are: Scotland, England, Northern Ireland, Wales, Southern Ireland, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Italy and Spain.

My top 5, from best to worst, currently are:

1 - Scotland! I live here, and admitted, there are a lot of complete ****s here as there are elsewhere, but I just love my country nonetheless. It's beauty never ceases to amaze me.

You see, I live a stones through away from the Highlands, so it takes a LOT to REALLY impress me scenery wise.

2 - Poland. This is the only country I've ever been to where I didn't feel like a foreigner, even though I couldn't speak a word of the language. It was strange but at the same time wonderful.

3 - Italy. We have Italian friends who live in Milan and have a holiday home in the Dolomites, so we have had many a happy visit to them in the past. Yet, I still feel like a foreigner there. Hmmmm.

4 - Northern Ireland. It's a country I've come to like more and more with every visit, and I need to investigate even more, it intrigues me.

5 - Switzerland. Except for all the rather passe Alp bits (along with France Germany and Austria), which are nowhere NEAR as rugged as Scotland anyway and so, bore me to tears, I like this country for it's watches, chocolate, and it's railways.

I think Denmark was rather nice, but I was last there when I was 8, so I cannot possibly comment on it now.

Elsewhere, bits of England and Wales are nice, don't get me wrong, but the last time I was in Wales, I was traveling by train from Cardiff to Fishguard for the ferry to Roslaire (ROI), and it was about as interesting as the sandwich I was eating* .

After the ferry, and the next day in Southern Ireland, I got the train from Roslaire to Dublin, and the countryside just seemed to remind me of 'rural' farmland in the southeast of England - same kind of green, everything. The coast was nice, but nothing really much to write home about.

Oh well, the Guinness made up for at least some of it.

I have been to Donnegal, etc before, and they were nice enough, but I don't really remember it terribly much, other than the big ships at Sligo.

Like I say, it takes a lot to impress me.


* - Savoury cheese and onion if you are wondering.

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