Countries you have visited?

[Anthony]

Um let me think...

New Zealand (I live here, so you know)
Australia (Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sydney)
Thailand (Bangkok)

Plus some others when I was little that I can't remember (mainly Australia and Fiji i think)

Oh and New Caledonia this year, Europe maybe next year and again the year after with school.

Cheers
Anthony

[ardypilot]

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Yes, that's correct.[/quote]
Must have been awesome- I'm doing the same later this year... got any tips/hints or recommendations about what to do or where to go?

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Huntly[/quote]
One place I am yet to stop at- I've heard it's off the hook!

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[towerguy]

Australia
Vanuatu
Fiji
USA
England
Wales
Scotland
France
Belgium
Germany
Denmark
Netherlands
Sweden
Norway
Italy
Luxembourg
Greece
Crete
Rhodes
Turkey
Yugoslavia ( as it was then )
Switzerland
Austria
Andorra

thats about it for now - that I can remember

[kiwibarguy]

Seriously now..

England 1 year
Australia 1 year
Japan 5 years
Wales
Scotland
Spain
Portugal
Italy
Switzerland
Austria
Germany
France
Indonesia

and Huntly. I was born in Huntly and we use to love the old joke, 1st prize a week in Huntly, 2nd prize wins 2 weeks.

Huntly isn't a town, it's a state of mind. yes a mighty boosh fan!!!

[ardypilot]

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Huntly isn't a town, it's a state of mind. yes a mighty boosh fan!!![/quote]
Haha, nice Yorkshire reference there... The Boosh is the best show on TV, hope to get tickets to their live show in Brighton while I'm in the UK in Summer

Howard Moon. Comin' atcha like a beam, like a ray, like a buzzard..

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[ardypilot]

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Japan 5 years

Wow! What's Japan like? I reeeealy want to go there The cars (gasp!), the food, the culture..

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yes a mighty boosh fan!!![/quote]
Is Huntly a hole? But is it really a hole?

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[Kelburn]

Japan is expensive apparently.

For food go to Vietnam (sooooo cheap but really good. My standard breakfast: Omlete, Chocolate Croissant, a few oreos etc. all great food.)

[ardypilot]

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Chocolate Croissant,[/quote]
Ahem, do you mean a pain du chocolat?

[victor_alpha_charlie]

QUOTE (Trolly @ May 20 2008, 06:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ahem, do you mean a pain du chocolat?

Nice one, but pain au chocolat

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Japan is expensive apparently.

For food go to Vietnam (sooooo cheap but really good. My standard breakfast: Omlete, Chocolate Croissant, a few oreos etc. all great food.)

Nice Vietnamese breakfast You're supposed to eat local food man!

Apparently really cr@p sushi there is equivalent to great sushi here.

[benwynn]

Well in my very limited Thai, I like to drink my Nam Applin with my breakfast

PS- I can do more, just not great at Crossaints

[chickenman]

North Island
South Island
Stewart Island
Waiheke Island
White Island
Ruapuke Island
Monkey Island



Jamie

[ardypilot]

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Nice one, but pain au chocolat [/quote]

[Njbb1995]

you have got to love that song!!!!

[victor_alpha_charlie]

Et maintenant la voyage a la supermarchet!

[ardypilot]

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Et maintenant la voyage a la supermarchet![/quote]
Thats the best line of the entire song, its so funny how Brett says it in that 'matter of fact' sort of voice

Gotta love the FOTC!

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[kiwibarguy]

My wife is Japanese so when we married 10 years ago we moved to japan. Luckily i had studied the language for 3 years before going or i would have been stuffed. I moved into her parents home and stayed with them in this tiny town for a year and a half before moving to our own place. In that environment my Japanese ability shot through the roof. After 5 years my English was actually starting to seriously deteriorate.

Japan is not as expensive as you think. When you are working there (usually as an English teacher) you make some seriously good money, i did. At first i walked around thinking i was a movie star, until about the 5th day there, when i was not in a good mood yet people still stop and look at you. You feel like shouting 'What are you looking at?!!" but that was because it was a small town. After a while you get use to it and don't care anymore.

No matter how long you live thereyou will never really considered to be a part of the country no matter how hard you try, you are a foreigner so dont really get taken seriously when talking about the welfare of the country.

And lastly, no matter how much Japanese you can speak ( and i am pretty good, modesty aside) people will always try to use their terrible english that they learnt at school, but once you start chatting away in japanese they will totally chill and become your best mate.

Awesome country, and yes Sushi rocks there. Japanese rice is unbeatable!

KIX airport is beautiful!!!!!

[dask77]

australia(Queensland, ACT,NSW,Victoria) New Zealand,Norfolk Island, USA( San Fran, LA ,Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe)

[FlyingKiwi]

QUOTE (kiwibarguy @ May 27 2008, 09:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

And lastly, no matter how much Japanese you can speak ( and i am pretty good, modesty aside) people will always try to use their terrible english that they learnt at school, but once you start chatting away in japanese they will totally chill and become your best mate.

I think that's true just about wherever you go - my mum speaks fluent Italian yet when she goes to Italy people still insist on speaking to her in their terrible, barely understandable English!

[Brennanx]

new zealand
australia
Cook island ( rarotonga)

[Fauville]

Most from my younger, no Family days

All NZ
Aus (Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra)
USA (Hawai)
Canada (Vancouver)
England, Scotland, Wales, North Ireland (all over)
Eire
Netherlands
Germany
Belgium
Denmark
Suisse
Luxembourg (for 1/2 hour )
Austria
Hungary
Czech
Italy
Greece
Turkey
Bulgaria
Romania
France (all over as thats where the wife and family are from)
Monaco