How many countries in 1 day?
Jul 26, 2005 | 4:13 pm
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How many countries in 1 day?
i rather suspect that many ft'ers will comfortably beat my recent experience and i'm curious to know what the target is!
i recently did UK-Amsterdam-Nice (flight), picked up a rental and drove via Monaco to San Remo (italy). Counting the principality as a bona fide "country", that makes 5 in a day.
easily beatable but the challenge is thrown!!
i recently did UK-Amsterdam-Nice (flight), picked up a rental and drove via Monaco to San Remo (italy). Counting the principality as a bona fide "country", that makes 5 in a day.
easily beatable but the challenge is thrown!!
Jul 26, 2005 | 4:29 pm
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I took a train from Ghent, Belgium to Glasgow airport to get a flight to Norway. So I can match your 5 countries if you counnt England and Scotland as seperate....they have seperate soccer teams so they must be seperate countries right? 
Jul 26, 2005 | 4:34 pm
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If you're counting a 24-hour period as 'one day', I've managed Slovakia, Austria, Germany, the UK and the Netherlands on one trip (mostly by air), and the UK, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany all by road in 24 hours.
Jul 26, 2005 | 4:48 pm
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In the air - one "day" (more than 24 hours elapsed time) NZ, US, UK, Netherlands and Denmark - also Switzerland (x2), UK, Germany, Singapore and Indonesia. Incidentally these were both on the same trip.
Driving - Switzerland, Lichteinstein, Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium in one day.
Driving - Switzerland, Lichteinstein, Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium in one day.
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Jul 26, 2005 | 4:59 pm
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Originally Posted by martian
So I can match your 5 countries if you counnt England and Scotland as seperate....they have seperate soccer teams so they must be seperate countries right?
Jul 27, 2005 | 4:12 am
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Originally Posted by Aviatrix
About 20 years ago a friend of mine got himself into the Guinness Book of Records by doing a phenomenal number of countries by train in 24 hours. He says that doing the research was harder than doing the actual trip.
Jul 27, 2005 | 5:29 am
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I'm intrigued by the rail one, too.
The best I can find from a quick check on bahn.de is Arlon (BE) - Luxembourg (LU) - Metz (FR) - Munich (DE) - Salzburg (AT) - Ljubljana (SI) - Zagreb (HR) - Mitrovica (YU). I'm sure there's far better than that by taking odder routes, though.
The best I can find from a quick check on bahn.de is Arlon (BE) - Luxembourg (LU) - Metz (FR) - Munich (DE) - Salzburg (AT) - Ljubljana (SI) - Zagreb (HR) - Mitrovica (YU). I'm sure there's far better than that by taking odder routes, though.
Jul 27, 2005 | 6:45 am
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6 in a 24-hour period : (Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Liechtenstein)
5 in a 24-hour period : (France, Italy, UK, Nigeria, Ghana) and (Germany, France, UK, Netherlands, Ghana) and (Macau SAR, PR China, Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, Malaysia)
5 in a 24-hour period : (France, Italy, UK, Nigeria, Ghana) and (Germany, France, UK, Netherlands, Ghana) and (Macau SAR, PR China, Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, Malaysia)
Jul 27, 2005 | 7:03 am
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I think the most countries one can visit in single day is 3. This is so because to really visit a country you must have a proper meal and interact with the locals. So in one day I had a breakfast meeting in Brussels, a lunch meeting in Paris, and a dinner meeting in Torino. That's it. Top that!
Jul 27, 2005 | 7:18 am
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Originally Posted by stimpy
I think the most countries one can visit in single day is 3. This is so because to really visit a country you must have a proper meal and interact with the locals.
Jul 27, 2005 | 8:09 am
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Not most countries, but most border crossings.
About 12 years ago when training for a marathon, I decided to run back and forth on the bridge over Niagara Falls, crossing the US/Canada border (and flashing the passport) over 20 times. By the 3rd/4th time they were annoyed, but by the 10th or so they were simply amused.
Would never try that these days though.
About 12 years ago when training for a marathon, I decided to run back and forth on the bridge over Niagara Falls, crossing the US/Canada border (and flashing the passport) over 20 times. By the 3rd/4th time they were annoyed, but by the 10th or so they were simply amused.
Would never try that these days though.
Jul 27, 2005 | 8:25 am
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Ah yes, I used to do that a lot in Strasbourg - would cycle over to Germany, as many things were much cheaper there (was a student at the time, every pfennig counted).
The border guards were very friendly, unless you came back drunk and without your passport...
The border guards were very friendly, unless you came back drunk and without your passport...