Forrest Bump

I do not for sure. For what I recall also hauteboy abides the rule of the stay.

relangford

I won't list, but 37 at last count (of which I lived/worked in 6).

ryandelmundo

I don't count "visiting" a country unless I've done two of the following four: sleep, drink a beer, drop a deuce, leave the airport. Using that metric, I'm at 55. Sadly no new countries since I visited El Salvador two years ago. Need to visit somewhere new!

ironmanjt

So, you're saying, that even if it's airplane transit, if I get the flight attendant to serve me a beer, and I "drop a deuce" I can count it?

fiujin

57 so far.
should have been in australia and nz these weeks but could not go, so that would have made it 59.
coming next few months are canada/portugal and iran so then i ll get to 60.
some of those countries i was only for few days though, but still as a tourist, others i ve extensively travelled.

all that traveling as a student, and i am still a student. i am 26 now.

Forrest Bump

60 visited at 26 is a great pace fiujin.
Actually as Europeans we have a great logistic advandage over NA colleagues.
>35 countries in a ± 3h flight radius. In miles a LHR-IST is 60% of a SEA-MIA.

fiujin

thanks! time is mostly what a student has. if a job does not require travelling the few free weeks per year won't help to increase that number significantly on a yearly basis.

true btw, although what really helps is not the short distances ( don't care much having many stopovers and long layovers if that reduces the price and enables me to travel more) but the existence of dirt cheap low cost airlines in the continent.

as an example. I flew ryaniar to Corfu in sep, and flew back from Montenegro with ryanair too. So i went from Corfu to Albania, visited Kosovo a second times (well only one town i didn to know yet) and jumped over to Albania. So thats basically 4 countries in 10 days. Round trip : 80 euros :-).

just few years ago any kind of round trip (ALWAYS with a stopover) would be easily 200 300.

ryandelmundo

I guess technically, but you'd have to do them outside the airport.

Forrest Bump

Not having been caught by the miles/FFP bug, is the best insurance to tons of cheap travels, freedom by the alliances 'slavery' and real flexibility.
Try to resist!
Ryanair bashing is a continental sport, but I will be always grateful to them for my insane shuttling back and forth in the early days of low cost phenomenon in Europe, enjoying fares mostly below € 10. Until 2010, when that aformentioned bug got the best of me.

hauteboy

my friend uses the rule 'if you can be arrested there, you've been there' So airport transits count.

ozstamps

I started this thread over 11 years ago ... does not seem that long back actually.

Up to about 130 real countries now, and added Mauritius and Madagascar in August and next week off to Ghana (Via Thailand and Germany) for Xmas at Lake Volta!

Glen
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CMK10

Total has increased to 23:

Austria
Botswana
Brazil
Canada
Czech Republic
Chile
Dominican Republic
Ethiopia
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
Mexico
The Netherlands
Nicaragua
Portugal
South Africa
Spain
Switzerland
Tanzania
United Kingdom
United States
Vatican City

marbe166

Update, now at 21:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/6578837-post488.html

Raideress

Australia
Cook islands
New Zealand
Scotland
England
Ireland
America
Thailand
Italy
Vatican city
Hoping to add French polynesian to the list at xmas with stop in Bora Bora

BuildingMyBento

If you're on a 5th freedom leg with an airline of a country you have no plans of visiting, aren't you subject to the laws of that country? Good practice would be flying between HKG and BKK.