Countries you have visited and will never go back.

[Tenkaykev]

I don't know what part of the UK you live in, but the council estates here in Yorkshire aren't up to Valletta standard.

https://www.google.com/search?q=val...HcjDBAIQ_AUoAXoECAIQAw&biw=1366&bih=625&dpr=1

The houses on what was a 1950's built local council estate ( many gone to private ownership over the years, good catchment area for schools ) usually go on the market for £350 - £400K.

 

[Chislenko]

To be honest anywhere that now entails long haul.

I probably share this reservation with the other DVT sufferers on here.

 

[Kingfisher101]

Yes I have, I thought Valletta was fantastic, I thought the rest of the island was OK but nothing special.

Why would you think I haven't been ?

Have you been to Valletta ? - Thought not.

Yes I have unfortunatley and I've been all over Malta and to Gozo. Lucky me.

 

[Gillstay]

That pretty much mirrors the places I have been.

Went to see Wales play USA in a friendly in San Jose but based ourselves in San Francisco for that trip.

On our second trip drove down from Calgary through Montana and then across to Seattle. Stayed there a few days then back up to Vancouver Island where my sister lives.

Like slowmotion we found the people friendly and polite.

Edit. Yes I am aware some of the trip was in Canada before someone wants to correct my geography!

Ah yes, San Jose. Nearest I got too being shot there. Went drinking in a different bar. Missed the guy who turned up with a blind man's handgun and shot 40 rounds into the place.

 

[LarryDuff]

Went to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in the 70's but can't go back as they don't exist anymore.
Was in Portugal a few years ago, wasn't impressed!

 

[Moodyman]

Rotherham.

As a Bradfordian, I shouldn’t, but it was hard not to chuckle at this. I went to Rotherham once. All I remember was being happy at joining the M1 to go home.

 

[yello]

To be honest anywhere that now entails long haul.

I probably share this reservation with the other DVT sufferers on here.

Ditto, but not because of DVT (and you have my sympathies btw). I just don't like air travel, and not because I'm preaching eco either. I like trains though. That said, I think my notions of train travel have become somewhat idealised - I think more of overnight Berlin to Vienna rather than the midweek 7:13 Sevenoaks to Charing Cross.

Tbh, I think my travelling days are over. I'm happy to pootle about locally and maybe the odd week away with my tent, but I can't see me venturing further. Never say never though.

 

[GilesM]

Russia and Belarus, and that was before Putin decided he'd prove to everyone he really is nuts.

 

[presta]

I presume I am highly unusual in this day and age as I have never left these shores. Only been to England and Wales.

You've beaten me. I thought I was very untravelled, but I've been to Wales, Scotland, France, & Greece.

 

[figbat]

Canada.

I'd love to go back to Canada - I did a 14-day driving holiday on the west side in 1996 and loved it; we were planning a family break there until Covid hit. But then again, rather like other large countries, Canada is a diverse place with a big east/west divide so I have no idea what most of it is like, only the bits from Calgary to Vancouver Island.

 

[Grant Fondo]

I thought Mauritius was over-hyped and wouldn't go back. Maybe we picked the wrong area as I know people that are mad about the place?

 

[slowmotion]

But they get lots of sunshine.

The scuba diving is pretty good too.

 

[Dave7]

The scuba diving is pretty good too.

+1 I had 2 good weeks diving there.....happy memories.

 

[Milzy]

I'd love to go back to Canada - I did a 14-day driving holiday on the west side in 1996 and loved it; we were planning a family break there until Covid hit. But then again, rather like other large countries, Canada is a diverse place with a big east/west divide so I have no idea what most of it is like, only the bits from Calgary to Vancouver Island.

I toured the French side which is why it felt so alien to me.

 

[robjh]

Syria and Russia. I found both of them fascinating if occasionally challenging, and normally I would have liked to visit again if the world had stayed as it was in 2000, but it hasn't. The devastation of Syria shows little sign of abating, and I think we are in for some very bad times to come with Russia, which puts any ideas of a repeat journey on the Trans-Siberian railway into the deep freeze.