How many countries have your teen dc visited?

[madderthanahatter]

I just posted on another thread saying we've travelled a fair bit and my dc19 said she's very grateful for this. I've just counted though and they've been to 8 non UK countries over 3 continents, which doesn't sound a lot. We've been to some countries twice, but different areas. I didn't include transit countries.
This is not a stealth boast BTW as we've always done it on the cheap, they've been taken out of school and our accommodation would leave most of MN pearl clutching!

17 and 18 year old, excluding UK and transit countries been to

Australia
Costa Rica
Mauritius
Norway
Sweden
Finland
Denmark
Madeira
Italy
Spain
France
Austria
Cyprus

My teen has only been to Jersey, France, Canary Islands and South Africa.
By the same age my eldest had also been to Iceland, Belgium and Spain.

By 18 mine had been to
NYC
Orlando
Spain/Balearics
Italy
Austria
France
Ireland
Australia
Various Greek islands
Portugal
Turkey
Tunisia/Croatia/Corsica on a cruise so only a day in each

DS has been to
Ireland
France
Belgium
Germany
Poland
Italy
Portugal
Spain
Crete
Rhodes
USA
Canada

Plus Scotland and Wales even though we don’t seem to be including home countries.

Oh I forgot Jersey!

Ours (early teens) have been to

France, Belgium, Netherlands by car
Greece
Spain
Croatia
Italy
Switzerland
Wales and Scotland

Planning an out-of-Europe trip in a couple of years

By the time they were in their teens they had both been to:
Australia (before they were four)
America (about six times)
Spain (before they were both one, then at least once a year til covid)
France
Italy
Scotland
Ireland
Holland
Norway
Belgium
Luxembourg
Wales
Portugal (just one of them there now for a month work experience)

They were 14 and 16 when the pandemic hit and we've only been back to Holland, Belgium and America since then.

I would love to take the kids to Paris for the day but passports are about £80 each and none of us have one so it’s just too expensive. I don’t really want to get each of us a passport every few months and if I save there’s always something more pressing to spend the money on.
My kids were the only ones in their primary school class who hadn’t been overseas. I feel a bit sad now

12 countries, 4 continents.

Not including the countries of the British Isles DS1 (16) has been to 17 countries and DS2 (12) has been to 13. DH and I love to travel and we spend most of our disposable income on it, but they (and we) are very aware how lucky we are to have visited so many countries. By the time I was 19 I'd been to 7 countries.

My 16 year old has been to

Morocco
France
Netherlands
Belgium
Germany
Italy
Spain
Iceland

Younger DC as above without Morocco (before she was born) and Iceland (school trip)

We’re happy to stick to Europe I minimise flights and to save money. We usually ferry and drive.

our 12 year old twins have been to 38 foreign countries and overseas territory. By the end of the summer they should be up to 42 (Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia and Hong Kong)

1. Austria x2
2. Bahamas
3. Barbados
4. Belgium
5. Bermuda
6. Cambodia
7. Canada
8. Cayman Islands
9. China (China) x2
10. Cyprus
11. Finland
12. France x2
13. Germany x3
14. Grand Cayman Islands
15. Greece x4
16. Italy x2
17. Japan
18. Liechtenstein
19. Macao
20. Malaysia
21. Maldives x3
22. Malta
23. Mauritius
24. Netherlands
25. Qatar x3
26. Saint Vincent
27. Singapore x2
28. South Korea
29. Spain
30. Sweden x2
31. Thailand x2
32. UAE (Abu Dhabi x2 + Dubai x2)
33. UK (Wales x6 + Scotland x1 + England)
34. USA x4
35. Vietnam x3
36. Dominican Republic
37. St Thomas, US Virgins island
38. St Martin (Dutch)

At 18 I’d never been abroad.

My dc have visited 10 EU countries