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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: BillyStubbsTears on May 08, 2020, 01:16:45 pm
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Seen a thing going on on Twitter asking how many capital cities you have visited. Here's my list (I think)
London
Reykjavik
Brussels
Amsterdam
Copenhagen
Oslo
Stockholm
Helsinki (*)
Berlin
Warsaw
Budapest
Prague
Vienna (*)
Paris
Luxembourg
Monaco
Bern
Rome
San Marino
Valletta
Ljubljana
Zagreb
Belgrade
Skopje
Athens
Nicosia
Cape Town
Abu Dhabi
Male'
Colombo (or Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte as it is called now) (*)
Singapore
Kuala Lumpur
Beijing
(*) Transit at airport so doesn't really count.
Surprised at the close European ones I've never been to:
Dublin
Madrid
Lisbon
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Forget Dublin and Madrid,disappointing for me. However, Lisbon should be a priority for you in about 10 years when we can travel freely again.
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Agree on Dublin. You aren't missing anything at all.
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Given that I'm half Irish by heritage, I'm amazed that I've got this old and never visited the place. Just to have been there.
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Aren't Colombo and Sri Jaywardenepura two different places but both capitals of Sri Lanka? Similar to South Africa having three capitals, Pretoria, Cape Town and Jo'burg.
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London
Edinburgh
Cardiff
Paris
Amsterdam
Berlin
Madrid
Rome
Prague
Washington
Santiago
Abu Dhabi
Singapore
Kuala Lumpur (airport only)
Vatican City
Gibraltar - added as I forgot that one until someone else mentioned it.
Not that many really..
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My list I think:
London (do we count Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast as well?)
Dublin
Oslo
Copenhagen
Amsterdam (amazed it actually is the capital when the parliament is in The Hague, one of very few such cases)
Brussels
Paris
Luxembourg
Bonn (when it was the capital, have never been to Berlin)
Madrid
Lisbon
Athens
Rome
Warsaw
Budapest
Sofia
Bucharest
Vienna
Canberra
Auckland
Singapore
Hong Kong
Suva (Fiji)
Washington DC
Ottawa
Mexico City
Also only at the airport in Bangkok and Bahrain/Manama
Like BST, surprised not to have been to Stockholm, Berlin, Ankara, Prague and Bratislava
Edit:
Worst/Least interesting - Canberra
Best/Most interesting - Rome, Vienna and Paris
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Hi Dutch, Wellington is the capitol of NZ
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Hi Dutch, Wellington is the capitol of NZ
Oops, apologies. I did actually know that as well :blush:
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Forget Dublin and Madrid,disappointing for me. However, Lisbon should be a priority for you in about 10 years when we can travel freely again.
Loved Lisbon, would go again any time IR.
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A few different :
Cairo
Muscat ( Oman )
does Port Stanley count ?
Manama
Berlin ( DDR )
+ Oslo , Copenhagen , Paris , Rome , Bonn , Amsterdam , Singapore , Colombo , Abu Dhabi , Lisbon ( didn't like ! )
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Port Stanley only counts if I can count St Helier ;)
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Lived in London & Amsterdam
have visited
Dublin
Brussels
Luxembourg
Berlin
Prague
Bratislava
Vienna
Bucharest
Budapest
Tel Aviv
Jerusalem (and Ramallah) - official and actual capitals of Palestine
Amman
Delhi
Kathmandu
Bangkok
Phnom Penh
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Amsterdam
Ankara
Athens
Berlin
Bratislava
Brussels
Canberra
Cairo
Copenhagen
Dublin
Edinburgh
Hanoi
Helsinki
Jakarta
Kabul
ljubljana
London
Lisbon
New Delhi
Phnom Penh
Prague
Paris
Rabat
Riga
Rome
San Marino
Singapore
Skopje
Stockholm
St Helier
Tallinn
Tehran
Tokyo
Valletta
Vatican City
Vienna
Vientiane
Wellington
Transits not included, lots I'd revisit some I didn't see a lot of.
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Visited Washington DC, Paris, Lisbon, Rome, Vatican City, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Prague, Bratislava, Dublin, Reykjavik, Budapest, Bangkok, Phnomh Penh, Ho Chi Minh City, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Vientiane, Nassau, Bridgetown, Dar-Es-Salam, Cape Town
Some well travelled folk on here, and plenty more on the hit list in the next few years.
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I've been to Rotherham. Does that count?
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No one else got Santiago yet.?
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Done 31.
Amsterdam
Belfast
Brussels
Budapest
Cairo
Cape Town
Cardiff
Copenhagen
Douglas
Dublin
Edinburgh
Gibraltar
Jerusalem
Kingston
Lisbon
London
Luxembourg
Male
Monte Carlo
Nairobi
Nicosia
Oslo
Paris
Prague
Ramallah
San Marino
Singapore
Stockholm
Valletta
Vienna
Warsaw
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Nassau - Bahamas
Bridgetown- Barbados
Manama Bahrain
Belmopan- Belize
Brasilia Brazil
Phnom Penh Cambodia
Santiago- chile
Beijing- China
Bogotá- Columbia
Abidjan- Ivory Coast
Nicosia- Cyprus
Amsterdam Holland
Prague- Czech Republic
Copenhagen-Denmark
Quito-Ecuador
Cairo-Egypt
Libreville-Gabon
Banjul-Gambia
Accra-Ghana
Athens-greece
St. George’s-Grenada
Reykjavik-Iceland
New Delhi-India
Gibraltar
Dublin-Ireland
Rome-Italy
Kingston-Jamaica
Tokyo-japan
Amman-Jordan
Seoul-south Korea
Kuwait City-Kuwait
Riga-Latvia
Monrovia-Liberia
Valletta-Malta
Kathmandu-Nepal
Oslo-Norway
Muscat-Oman
Panama City-Panama
Lima-Peru
Lisbon-Portugal
Doha-Qatar
Basseterre-st kitts/st Nevis
Castries-st Lucia
Dakar-Senegal
Freetown-Sierra leone
Stockholm-Sweden
Bangkok-Thailand
Ankara-Turkey
Abu Dhabi-uae
London
Washington
Montevideo-uraquay
Hanoi-Vietnam
Falkland Islands x 4 times.
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Some quite massive carbon footprints here. In all seriousness, I don't think in future people can be travelling as much as this.
Still. What lovely weather we are having. April was another record breaker.
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London
Edinburgh
Cardiff
Dublin
Belfast
Paris
Amsterdam
Berlin
Tallin
Riga
Valetta
San Marino
Not many I know , the worst one is Dublin
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Aren't Colombo and Sri Jaywardenepura two different places but both capitals of Sri Lanka? Similar to South Africa having three capitals, Pretoria, Cape Town and Jo'burg.
Oh is that right? I'd assumed Colombo had just changed its name.
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London
Paris
Vienna
Madrid
Prague
That's it.
I have travelled further afield but not visited the capital city. I also took a decision to really limit the amount I fly. I don't like flying and I don't think it's the right thing to do now anyway. I think I've flown a return journey only once in the last ten years, aided by the fact that I've never worked for a business that has required me to travel. Though once I had a manager who gave me a talking to for not taking foreign holidays because it was "important to broaden my horizons and experience other countries". The daft t**t.
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I don't want to list how many times I've been to each place nor to where I visited without going to the capitals I'm in too much trouble with a carbon footprint bigger than bigfoot but there was a bit of business travel quite a bit of hitchhiking and lots of ferries trains and buses. The cheaper you travel the more local people you meet.
I often think about the kindness of strangers when I've travelled and can remember faces and meals with them from decades ago, I think about that a lot now I'm better off. When I was fairly young and quite far from home I was told I was rich by one of the guys looking after us, it took me a while to realise that he meant white with a british passport, I was fairly broke at the time.
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Nassau - Bahamas
Bridgetown- Barbados
Manama Bahrain
Belmopan- Belize
Brasilia Brazil
Phnom Penh Cambodia
Santiago- chile
Beijing- China
Bogotá- Columbia
Abidjan- Ivory Coast
Nicosia- Cyprus
Amsterdam Holland
Prague- Czech Republic
Copenhagen-Denmark
Quito-Ecuador
Cairo-Egypt
Libreville-Gabon
Banjul-Gambia
Accra-Ghana
Athens-greece
St. George’s-Grenada
Reykjavik-Iceland
New Delhi-India
Gibraltar
Dublin-Ireland
Rome-Italy
Kingston-Jamaica
Tokyo-japan
Amman-Jordan
Seoul-south Korea
Kuwait City-Kuwait
Riga-Latvia
Monrovia-Liberia
Valletta-Malta
Kathmandu-Nepal
Oslo-Norway
Muscat-Oman
Panama City-Panama
Lima-Peru
Lisbon-Portugal
Doha-Qatar
Basseterre-st kitts/st Nevis
Castries-st Lucia
Dakar-Senegal
Freetown-Sierra leone
Stockholm-Sweden
Bangkok-Thailand
Ankara-Turkey
Abu Dhabi-uae
London
Washington
Montevideo-uraquay
Hanoi-Vietnam
Falkland Islands x 4 times.
Think you're the winner so far Diddy, unless of course anyone knows different ?
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London
Dublin
Cardiff
Edinburgh
Brussels
Amsterdam
Berlin
Budapest
Prague
Vienna
Paris
Monaco
Washington DC
Athens
Tallinn
Vilnius
Riga
Gibraltar
Douglas
St Peter Port
Bratislava
20
SM will be even now beavering through the night compiling his list :lol:
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Gibraltar ?? ....
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I’ve been very lucky with the travel,25 years in the navy helped me with majority of those.
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Mixture of business & pleasure:
Angola Luanda
Austria Vienna
Azerbaijan Baku
Belgium Brussels
Cuba Havana
Czech Republic (Czechia) Prague
Denmark Copenhagen
Egypt Cairo
England London
France Paris
Germany Berlin
Greece Athens
India New Delhi
Indonesia Jakarta
Luxembourg Luxembourg
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur
Morocco Rabat
Netherlands Amsterdam
Northern Ireland Belfast
Peru Lima
Portugal Lisbon
Scotland Edinburgh
Singapore Singapore
South Africa Pretoria,
Spain Madrid
Switzerland Bern
Thailand Bangkok
Ukraine Kiev
Wales Cardiff
29 (including Belfast, Cardiff and Scotland)
30 if you include Gibraltar :blink:
Does Hong Kong count?
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Gibraltar ?? ....
lol - desperation probably !
I used Wikipedia as an aide memoire and there was Gibraltar capital of Gibraltar " a British Overseas Territory" so I took it
You were probably laughing that much you missed my Douglas I-O-M and St Peter Port Guernsey "British Crown Dependencies" - and for me literally "any port in a storm" on my way to 20
I would give the all up though for a visit to Edinburgh of the Seven Seas (Tristan da Cuhna) or my favourite Flying Fish Cove the Capital of Christmas Island ! I will just have to picture that but how good it sounds
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My list;
Albania Tirana (Tirane)
Algeria Algiers
Andorra Andorra la Vella
Antigua and Barbuda Saint John's
Austria Vienna
Azerbaijan Baku
Barbados Bridgetown
Belarus Minsk
Belgium Brussels
Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo
Bulgaria Sofia
Croatia Zagreb
Cuba Havana
Cyprus Nicosia
Czech Republic Prague
Denmark Copenhagen
England London
Estonia Tallinn
Finland Helsinki
France Paris
Germany Berlin
Greece Athens
Grenada Saint George's
Guyana Georgetown
Haiti Port au Prince
Hungary Budapest
Ireland Dublin
Israel Tel Aviv & Jerusalem
Italy Rome
Jamaica Kingston
Japan Tokyo
Kenya Nairobi
Kosovo Pristina
Latvia Riga
Libya Tripoli
Liechtenstein Vaduz
Lithuania Vilnius
Luxembourg Luxembourg
Malta Valletta
Mexico Mexico City
Monaco Monaco
Montenegro Podgorica
Netherlands Amsterdam/Hague
North Macedonia (Macedonia) Skopje
Northern Ireland Belfast
Norway Oslo
Panama Panama City
Poland Warsaw
Portugal Lisbon
Qatar Doha
Romania Bucharest
Russia Moscow
Saint Kitts and Nevis Basseterre
Saint Lucia Castries
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown
San Marino San Marino
Scotland Edinburgh
Serbia Belgrade
Slovakia Bratislava
Slovenia Ljubljana
South Africa Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Cape Town
Spain Madrid
Sweden Stockholm
Switzerland Bern
Thailand Bangkok
Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain
Tunisia Tunis
Ukraine Kiev
United States Washington D.C
Vatican City Vatican City
Wales Cardiff
I've had to use somebody else's list as I have forgotten numerous places that I've been to. That's what you get for following England around the World watching football!
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Is Vatican City on a par with Andorra? What was the score last time we played there?😁
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Disappointed you havnt been to Flying Fish Cove or Edinburgh of the Seven Seas
Anyone claim them ? Long shot I know
Look at this - Albatross Bar will get busy I bet
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Nassau - Bahamas
Bridgetown- Barbados
Manama Bahrain
Belmopan- Belize
Brasilia Brazil
Phnom Penh Cambodia
Santiago- chile
Beijing- China
Bogotá- Columbia
Abidjan- Ivory Coast
Nicosia- Cyprus
Amsterdam Holland
Prague- Czech Republic
Copenhagen-Denmark
Quito-Ecuador
Cairo-Egypt
Libreville-Gabon
Banjul-Gambia
Accra-Ghana
Athens-greece
St. George’s-Grenada
Reykjavik-Iceland
New Delhi-India
Gibraltar
Dublin-Ireland
Rome-Italy
Kingston-Jamaica
Tokyo-japan
Amman-Jordan
Seoul-south Korea
Kuwait City-Kuwait
Riga-Latvia
Monrovia-Liberia
Valletta-Malta
Kathmandu-Nepal
Oslo-Norway
Muscat-Oman
Panama City-Panama
Lima-Peru
Lisbon-Portugal
Doha-Qatar
Basseterre-st kitts/st Nevis
Castries-st Lucia
Dakar-Senegal
Freetown-Sierra leone
Stockholm-Sweden
Bangkok-Thailand
Ankara-Turkey
Abu Dhabi-uae
London
Washington
Montevideo-uraquay
Hanoi-Vietnam
Falkland Islands x 4 times.
This through your job? Mixture? Trips? Right haul.
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25 years in navy and a few hols.
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Just curious, a few have mentioned Manama Bahrain, and what did you think of it, as this is not a stand out place like say Dubai. What brought you here? Work, airport transit or Formula1? Bahrain is a cracking little place to visit if you get under the skin of it and not just the bright lights bars and trappings of Juffair ;) Alot of history and culture for somewhere so small. I love living here for the last 7 years through working in Saudi and commuting everyday.
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Childishly I would love to go there (for F1) BUT probably just so I could sing the Muppet song - Manamana Du du du du du Manamana - on arrival at the Airport
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Bahrain .....passed through there in 1960 en route to Ceylon ( where my Dad was stationed ) ..........and then spent a year there 1968-69 in the RAF at Muharraq . Daily exercise was a walk around the existing airfield . Juffair, if I remember rightly was the Navy base but no bright lights ! Manama was beginning to build up .
Footy wise , saw an England Amateur Xl play against Bahrain at the opening of a new stadium ( maybe Sheik Isa Town ? ) and win 4-0 and there was a very competitive Inter-Service League
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I visited the American navy base there whilst on gulf patrol, the yanks really did have it sussed, restaurants, bars, tennis court, swimming pool, massive px( duty free shop), like being on holiday.
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I've only been to one, and that was only because I lived there for ten years for work. Is there anybody on here that's not been to any?
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HR, the stadium is indeed in Isa Town. Muharrq is also the airport location,
Andy, Tell me about the Yanks here. Cemented my dislike for them. loud, in yer face, and full of themselves.
The Navy base is entered through Juffair, and has now spread to include Mina Salman port. My old apartment used to overlook the base. there is always some sort of ship moored, with serious weaponry on the decks, fixed and flying varieties.
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DW, The circuit and race is a good one to attend, alot going on over the week. Not only the racing but it attracts big bands to play after racing is finished.
Plus its a day/night race and the colours and light is stunning as the sun sets over the Sakir desert, also its usually around a pleasant28 degrees. Once the racing is done its only 20 minutes drive to the entertainment districts of Juffair and Adaliya, where you can find/do everything to your tastes.
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Amsterdam X2 very nice
Bucharest. scary
London. Dump
Paris. X3 Lovely
Rome x 2 Lovelier
Athens. Shithole
Madrid. Very nice
Lisbon. Great
That's about it.
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I see that we have page after page on Covid 19, with forum members taking the government to task how they have handled the pandemic. The self same people than contribute to a thread that is glorifying in adding to the climate change, the biggest threat to our livelyhood, by adding to the carbon footprint. People never fail to amaze me.
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Climate change is a different debate altogether..
So, because some of us have traveled, that then diminishes our right to criticise government actions on coronavirus, where well over 30000 of our population have been killed.?
Climate change is important, and how we manage our travel is relevant, but to link this to berating those people who have opinions on coronavirus is nonsense. No one is glorifying climate change here.
Please don’t turn a thread with no arguments into one. If you want to discuss climate change perhaps open another thread instead.?
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I see that we have page after page on Covid 19, with forum members taking the government to task how they have handled the pandemic. The self same people than contribute to a thread that is glorifying in adding to the climate change, the biggest threat to our livelyhood, by adding to the carbon footprint. People never fail to amaze me.
Do you refuse to eat food that has been air-freighted into this country on principle?
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I see that we have page after page on Covid 19, with forum members taking the government to task how they have handled the pandemic. The self same people than contribute to a thread that is glorifying in adding to the climate change, the biggest threat to our livelyhood, by adding to the carbon footprint. People never fail to amaze me.
Thanks for that contribution.
For the record, 21 of the cities I've listed are ones that I've visited with work for meetings or presentations that have been connected with securing export earnings. I assume you didn't expect me to reinvent the entire way in which late stage Capitalism operates while I was doing it?
Another 9 are cities I visited on trains while Inter-Railing twice, 31 and 34 years ago.
1 is a city I visited on holiday as a kid 41 years ago. And the other two are from my honeymoon 20 years ago.
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There’s only 1 that should count. The capital of Yorkshire. Doncaster with the mighty River Don Hexthorpe Flats and Cusworth Hall
Who would want to go anywhere else
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I see that we have page after page on Covid 19, with forum members taking the government to task how they have handled the pandemic. The self same people than contribute to a thread that is glorifying in adding to the climate change, the biggest threat to our livelyhood, by adding to the carbon footprint. People never fail to amaze me.
Like IDM and BST I think you need to have a separate conversation on the very real issue of climate change, and trying to deduce carbon footprints from lists on here might not give an accurate indication. Someone who has been to Spain on holiday 20 times may have a worse footprint than someone who has been to as many capital cities once each. Also you do not know how old a poster might be, where they have been based, and how long ago the travel was.
For the record of the 25 capitals I listed, 15 I visited for work purposes. Five long distance ones were on a once in a lifetime round the world trip in the 1980s, and the remaining five are Amsterdam, Bonn, Luxembourg (all done without flying while I lived 40 years in the Netherlands), Dublin and Vienna (both done for major European sport events, the former I had an official role in and the latter my daughter competed in).
Since I returned to the UK in 2013 the only ones I have visited are London and Dublin (and of course Belfast if you count it and which is 12 miles away from me these days).
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I see that we have page after page on Covid 19, with forum members taking the government to task how they have handled the pandemic. The self same people than contribute to a thread that is glorifying in adding to the climate change, the biggest threat to our livelyhood, by adding to the carbon footprint. People never fail to amaze me.
I probably put up the biggest list, so my carbon footprint is massive. But I'm also not berating the government so does that make me OK?
In fairness a lot of my journeys were/are work related as I needed to train and educate fellow workers and other companies on what we manufacture. As it happens I work for a technology company that manufactures technological solutions that saves the planet, reduces global warming and are key components to reducing carbon emissions. We are world leaders in a lot of these areas, so much so that we advise governments around the world on adopting greener solutions. One of my activities, that puts me in London a lot, is sitting on a management board and the technical committee that does exactly that.
So, not terribly concerned about your post to be fair.
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Of the capital cities I listed,90% of them I sailed to.
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Amsterdam X2 very nice. Both boat/ bus
Bucharest. scary....on a plane
London. Dump....on a train
Paris. X3 Lovely.... train. train. ferry/bus
Rome x 2 Lovelier. Plane
Athens. Shithole.. Cruise ship
Madrid. Very nice. Plane work related
Lisbon. Great Cruise ship.
Edinburgh/ Cardiff ....car
That's about