Your Favourite Country?

El Horseboxo · 26-10-2013 09:36AM

Hard to pick one. I'm torn between Guatemala and Colombia. Some unbelievable scenery in both. Very laid back, great people and you can find towns that are just picture perfect. Neither are too spoiled by tourism either.

Cuba would probably finish third. A special and unique country.

timthumbni · 26-10-2013 09:45AM

I love any country that I go to that is is not my own tbh.

Even going across the border from Northern Ireland into the south makes me feel like a school kid. I've enjoyed most places to be honest.

Scotland - oh those mountains
England - the country pubs
France - the vineyards, camping, ants whilst camping
Spain - the weather, the Islands and the beaches
Italy - the women
Switzerland - Interlaken

Favorite - hmm. Spain or more specifically Majorca. Found it beautiful. Could have happily stayed forever. I'm sure if I had have went to Santa Ponsa or magaluf etc then my experience would have been different.

The_Pretender · 26-10-2013 09:47AM

'Murica

Cienciano · 26-10-2013 10:36AM

Germany. Best football league in the world from a fans perspective, great driving roads, loads of great towns and villages, good location for European driving holidays, great standard of living and stuff is reasonable priced too. Love the food, a good beer drinking culture and all fairly close to home too. And i live my dream of having a mullet and wearing a sleeveless denim jacket and no one will judge me.

OneArt · 26-10-2013 10:49AM

Cienciano wrote: »

Germany. Best football league in the world from a fans perspective, great driving roads, loads of great towns and villages, good location for European driving holidays, great standard of living and stuff is reasonable priced too. Love the food, a good beer drinking culture and all fairly close to home too. And i live my dream of having a mullet and wearing a sleeveless denim jacket and no one will judge me.

I live in Germany, so I'll be there to judge you. *judges*

Only joking. It's one of my favourite things about Germany. Saw an aul balding fella walking down the street the other day. From the top he was dressed in a nice shirt, a waistcoat and a leather jacket. He also wore a long black skirt, purple high heels and was carrying a bag. Not a bother on him.

Have to say I love Belgium. Lots of cities, nice countryside, incredibly friendly people and pretty well-connected to other places.

MRnotlob606 · 26-10-2013 10:50AM

ive always wanted to visit italy, in particularly florence

Gee_G · 26-10-2013 10:54AM

Italy. I've only been once, to Sorrento but I loved everything about it and I hope to return again.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 26-10-2013 11:00AM

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

ive always wanted to visit italy, in particularly florence

Stunning city you have to visit, I went on a coach tour leaving Rome which took in Florence, Pisa, Sienna and Venice, we got two days in Rome, Florence and Venice and 1 in Pisa and Sienna.

The real Italy, nothing like the soulless Turin and Milan of the north.

fingal raven · 26-10-2013 11:02AM

1. Denmark The most polite and pleasant people on the planet.
2. Australia Such a variety of scenery and my experience of the Aussies was positive.
3. Norway Spectacular scenery, nice people ( a little more reserved than the Danes ) but VERY expensive.

efb · 26-10-2013 11:03AM

Austria

timthumbni · 26-10-2013 11:06AM

OneArt wrote: »

I live in Germany, so I'll be there to judge you. *judges*

Only joking. It's one of my favourite things about Germany. Saw an aul balding fella walking down the street the other day. From the top he was dressed in a nice shirt, a waistcoat and a leather jacket. He also wore a long black skirt, purple high heels and was carrying a bag. Not a bother on him.

Have to say I love Belgium. Lots of cities, nice countryside, incredibly friendly people and pretty well-connected to other places.

A friend of mine went to Germany via work. Was picked up in a gleaming large BMW and was then driven to the workplace. At one stage he looked across and the speedo was reading 133mph. He said his hair was almost white by the end.

He said they were bloody confident drivers though. Lol

Promac · 26-10-2013 11:06AM

New Zealand.

Living here permanently because it's ****ing epic.

Cienciano · 26-10-2013 11:18AM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Stunning city you have to visit, I went on a coach tour leaving Rome which took in Florence, Pisa, Sienna and Venice, we got two days in Rome, Florence and Venice and 1 in Pisa and Sienna.

The real Italy, nothing like the soulless Turin and Milan of the north.

Turin is a great city. Really nice city centre, very chilled and laid back and very friendly people. The complete opposite of Rome which is chaos. Milan is a dirty horrible hole of a place though.
I was in italy 3 times now, spend a bit of time touring around. Great place to visit, but i definitely wouldn't want to live there

Cork selfbuild · 26-10-2013 11:25AM

For an all rounder, to relocate and live & work to would be the States or Canada, just like it there for some reason.

There are loads of places I've travelled to and some in the near future, if money was no object, I'd live there but alas, short of winning euro millions won't happen!

OneArt · 26-10-2013 11:30AM

timthumbni wrote: »

A friend of mine went to Germany via work. Was picked up in a gleaming large BMW and was then driven to the workplace. At one stage he looked across and the speedo was reading 133mph. He said his hair was almost white by the end.

He said they were bloody confident drivers though. Lol

Bloody stupid drivers. Once a year some speeding pr*ck in his Mercedes (probably works for Aldi as well...) causes an accident and kills people because he think he can still drive maniacally through the fog.

Irish people suffer high road deaths due to drink driving, Germans suffer high road death due to speeding. They're not as good as they think they are.

diomed · 26-10-2013 11:34AM

Vatican City.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 26-10-2013 11:40AM

diomed wrote: »

Vatican City.

Ah yes it's spectacular, every Roman Catholic should make the effort to visit at least once in their lives.

It's our Mecca.

HalloweenJack · 26-10-2013 11:41AM

Spain or Brazil. Both beautiful conutries with plenty to see and do. Both have laid-back, easygoing and friendly people living there. Brazil probably takes it but visa issues make it difficult to stay longer.

Muise... · 26-10-2013 11:44AM

France.

most varied landscape, great food & wine, ridiculously rich history and culture and the people aren't anywhere near as dickish as they're reputed to be.

grenache · 26-10-2013 12:34PM

Italy. No where in the world beats it.

Cienciano · 26-10-2013 01:01PM

OneArt wrote: »

I live in Germany, so I'll be there to judge you. *judges*

Only joking. It's one of my favourite things about Germany. Saw an aul balding fella walking down the street the other day. From the top he was dressed in a nice shirt, a waistcoat and a leather jacket. He also wore a long black skirt, purple high heels and was carrying a bag. Not a bother on him.

Have to say I love Belgium. Lots of cities, nice countryside, incredibly friendly people and pretty well-connected to other places.

What part are you living? I have a few german friends and have been over plenty of times, always north west germany though. Haven't even been to the south and I still like the country!
Other things I like about it is the warm summer/cold winter seasons, you don't really get that in the likes of spain/italy. Also, christmas is celebrated properly, it's just not the same in some countries. And german women are into watersports.

TheGoldenAges · 26-10-2013 01:07PM

Vietnam, such a diverse, culturally and historically fascinating place. Spent two weeks traveling around the country and it was the best time of my life so far. If anybody gets a chance to go grab it with both arms.

Sunnyisland · 26-10-2013 01:39PM

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Samesies. Portugal has absolutely everything you'd want from a country....except a decent economy and honest politicians.

Why did you leave?

I was there for nearly 12 years,came back as my father was very seriously ill in which four weeks later he died,just hung around here since but would be a very frequent visitor back there and hope to live back there quite soon

Sunnyisland · 26-10-2013 01:40PM

And I now have seven thousand posts maybe it's time to leave :-)

losthorizon · 26-10-2013 01:43PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

America. If I could, I'd live there. My kinda life over there

America, Africa - People are just naming continents.

losthorizon · 26-10-2013 01:50PM

Muise... wrote: »

France.

most varied landscape, great food & wine, ridiculously rich history and culture and the people aren't anywhere near as dickish as they're reputed to be.

Have to agree with this. Have traveled all around France at this stage and cant actually ever remember meeting an unfriendly French person. Funnily enough I was never in Paris though - maybe thats it.

It really is incredible how different France is from one region to another with massively different landscapes. Spain comes close in terms of natural beauty but not in terms of friendliness I have to say (and I have Catalan cousins - my family is everywhere).

26-10-2013 01:53PM

For now its Cyprus. What an amazing country. I've yet to explore more places

OneArt · 26-10-2013 02:24PM

Cienciano wrote: »

What part are you living? I have a few german friends and have been over plenty of times, always north west germany though. Haven't even been to the south and I still like the country!
Other things I like about it is the warm summer/cold winter seasons, you don't really get that in the likes of spain/italy. Also, christmas is celebrated properly, it's just not the same in some countries. And german women are into watersports.

North west in Essen. People here moan about it always raining in the summer, but at least it's normal to get days of 30+ during the warmer months and it usually only rains every couple of days. There's a nice cold/hot balance of temperature here.

Not surprised about them being into watersports. Germans love "making sport".

beano345 · 26-10-2013 02:25PM

canada,polite people...and the wimmins!

Duff · 26-10-2013 02:59PM

If Chicago was a country. There.

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