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best and worse countries you have visited?

256 replies

StressedIsMyFirstName · 11/08/2015 18:48

Have you travelled alone?

OP posts:
timefortiggy · 11/08/2015 20:55

Best, france especially grenoble, worst ireland.

Rhiana1979 · 11/08/2015 20:56

Best Maldives
Worst Dubai

MrsTerryPratchett · 11/08/2015 20:56

So OP, are you planning a trip or just bored? Grin

DrankSangriaInThePark · 11/08/2015 20:56

Best- Spain
Worst- Belgium.
Strangest- Portugal.

Siennasun · 11/08/2015 20:59

Actually I have been somewhere I hated: Sharm el Sheik. Spent the worst 2 days of my life there. I'd never go back.

Forgot to say Mexico in the best list too.

Love travel threads Smile

chinam · 11/08/2015 21:01

Best: Italy, China, Vietnam, Egypt (not Cairo)
Worst: Biarritz in France. Shit hole with some of the rudest people I've ever had the misfortune to meet.

stuckinahole · 11/08/2015 21:02

Best - Virgin Islands
Worst - Gibraltar (WTAF!?)

shoopshoopsong · 11/08/2015 21:03

The only other countries I've travelled to alone were Scotland (Glasgow) and America (New York) and I absolutely loved it

chinam · 11/08/2015 21:03

Aw, timefortiggy what did we do to make you hate us?

LunchpackOfNotreDame · 11/08/2015 21:04

Best - Italy
Worst - Spain. Moreover Spaniards. Not a fan.

Longdistance · 11/08/2015 21:04

Worst place Tunisia

Best place Antigua, New York, Hong Kong.

googoodolly · 11/08/2015 21:05

Ooh tiggy Grenoble brings back memories. I lived there for a year on my year abroad, beautiful place!

thegreenbackboogie · 11/08/2015 21:05

Best - Australia, without a shadow of a doubt!

Worst - Never been anywhere particularly bad but wasn't a fan of Portugal (that goes for Lisbon and places in the Algarve).

bonnenuit · 11/08/2015 21:06

Worst: India - there were so many good things about it but the poverty, dirt, cow pats, hassling and feeling unsafe meant I couldn't enjoy it. I think I might go back one day but not for a while.
Also didn't like Singapore.

Best: Iran, Malaysia, Greece, Italy

ilovemyteddy · 11/08/2015 21:09

Best - Barcelona, Venice - great history,great food and great walking cities
Worse - Gibraltar - just didn't get it.

applecatchers36 · 11/08/2015 21:11

Yes have done some travelling alone in Thailand and Australia enjoyed it.

Worst country : probably France repeated experiences over the years of French people being very rude, including refusing to reply to my sister in French even though she had been living in Paris for a year and spoke ( to my ears reasonable French) also the food in the provinces can be terrible ...

Also bad experience of Kuta in Bali , got hassled & jeered at a lot by men, very unpleasant atmosphere ( but other parts of Island e.g. ubud lovley)

Best : loved, loved, loved India amazing place. Love visiting Italy & Germany in Europe.

TheMotherOfHellbeasts · 11/08/2015 21:11

Best: Cuba (I lived there and became a Cuban citizen), most of South America (where we live now).
Worst: the UK (Blush) or Barbados

I have travelled extensively alone and lived abroad alone for a lot of my adult life (I was a scientist conducting work for overseas governmemts). I don't go anywhere without DH and DS now, but I've been all over the world on my own and loved it.

CelticPromise · 11/08/2015 21:12

googoo yep was dull as shit,I was there on my own for a couple of days waiting for a friend. Stayed in a dump of a hostel, got my wallet nicked, and got bored. Had a much better time in Melbourne!

timefortiggy · 11/08/2015 21:14

Aw chinam im sorry just ironically don't find it that friendly!!

MagpieCursedTea · 11/08/2015 21:15

Best - Finland, Switzerland, parts of the U.S. (Detroit, Chicago, Venice Beach and a few others)

Worst - Tunisia

Suzietwo · 11/08/2015 21:16

I loved travelling alone. My favourite way but impractical now

I hated Vietnam. It's all just one road up and down and very controlled where you can and can't go

My favourite places .... Lots for different reasons - china, colombia, Pakistan, Morocco, Cambodia, Greece

bonnenuit · 11/08/2015 21:17

Oh also love Vietnam

DragonRojo · 11/08/2015 21:18

Best: Japan, Vietnam and Italy
Worse: I would not want to classify the whole country as bad, but my worse holidays were definitely in Bulgaria and Portugal.

I love traveling alone or with company. Either is fine

nailbarnutter · 11/08/2015 21:18

Best Barbados

Worst Malta

Finallyonboard · 11/08/2015 21:19

Worst: Mexico
Best: USA

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