Capital cities

[BillyStubbsTears]

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

[Iberian Red]

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.

[Padge_DRFC]

Agree on Dublin. You aren't missing anything at all.

[BillyStubbsTears]

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.

[DonnyOsmond]

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.

[IDM]

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..

[Dutch Uncle]

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

[SydneyRover]

Hi Dutch, Wellington is the capitol of NZ

[Dutch Uncle]

Hi Dutch, Wellington is the capitol of NZ

Oops, apologies. I did actually know that as well 

[SydneyRover]

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.

[Highland Rover]

 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 ! )
 

[SydneyRover]

Port Stanley only counts if I can count St Helier 

[wilts rover]

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

[SydneyRover]

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.

[NickDRFC]

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.

[tommy toes]

I've been to Rotherham. Does that count?

[IDM]

No one else got Santiago yet.?

[RedRover45]

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

[andy didcott]

 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.

[River Don]

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.

[Draytonian III]

London
Edinburgh
Cardiff
Dublin
Belfast
Paris
Amsterdam
Berlin
Tallin
Riga
Valetta
San Marino


Not many I know , the worst one is Dublin

[BillyStubbsTears]

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.

[River Don]

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.

[SydneyRover]

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.

[RedRover45]

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 ?

[Donnywolf]

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 

[Highland Rover]

 Gibraltar ?? ....

[andy didcott]

I’ve been very lucky with the travel,25 years in the navy helped me with majority of those.

[Muttley]

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

Does Hong Kong count?

[Donnywolf]

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