What is your favorite foreign country?

Too many options to create a poll, but with the Olympics here, I think it's worth asking. What is your favorite foreign country?

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Love the "Land of Fire and Ice". Reykjavik is a great city even though it is expensive. I think I'll go bathe and put on some of my Blue Lagoon mud mask.

Also, Spain, France and Italy.

Be hard to choose.

Ireland would have to be my favorite, though. The sea, the mist, the mountains, the green,green,green. And the warm fuzzy feeling I had all the time I was there.

A high standard of living, a strong social welfare state and hot blondes.

(sad, I know) but I am a bit of an Anglophile, so I'll have to say the UK.

Because I lived there for a while and am pretty attached to it. But there are tons of places I've yet to visit, so ask me again in 10 years!

I heard the Bavarians Alps are beautiful.

My mom is from Deutschland and I've been going there since I was a baby. Her family is still over there. I can't wait to go back! Last time was 2000, it's been too long.

Saxony, Chemnitz... 1920. Many of his cousins survived WW2 (by hiding) and still live there. His father refused to join the Nazi party and escaped in 1930 and migrated to the US. Meine Grossvater then joined the USAF in 1938 and translated for the intelligence during the war.

was in Czechoslovakia during the war and lost a husband during it. After the war, when the Russians took over they sent my Oma and her family to Germany (because of their German heritage). Much like the Jewish people, they had only minutes to pack and take only what they could carry. They were then dumped in a foreign war torn country with nothing but what they were able to gather. My Oma was pregnant with my mother at the time and since her fiance' was Czech, he had to stay behind. He tried to sneak across the border and was caught. They assumed he was killed. After the Iron curtain began to fall, my mother found out that her father was still alive, had married and she had 2 siblings!

My mother was raised by my Oma's 3rd husband who was captured during the war by the Russians, he too refused to become a Nazi. He was held for a year in a Russian style concentration camp and when the war was over was told to "walk home". I have thousands of war stories from my Oma and have visited Dachau. Her face still turns white when she hears sirens.

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Have you been? Do tell where! I spent 9 months living in Stuttgart and travelling around Germany, and Europe in general. Best. Time. Evah!

But i say: The USA.

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Savoureux ! :P

In Holland they offer fries with mayonnaise or peanut sauce! I didn't like that.

if it's the Dutch mayo-so think it's like melted cheese.
I would have to say Netherlands is my fave.

and having spent holidays in many more, I don't have a favorite. I think most of the world is quite nice.

for the variety of colourful local cultures.

1. The Netherlands - The Dutch are the ultimate pragmatists, which is what I love most about them. They're bigtime capitalists, yet on social issues they're 30-40 years ahead of us.

2. Canada - Sort of like the U.S. in an alternate universe...except for Quebec, which is sort of like the U.S. in an alternate universe, but dubbed into French.

Why i'm always hearing the Twilight Zone theme. :)

The people there are incredible, surpass the glorious scenery.

It's the only place in the world I've been where total strangers apologize to me for bad weather.

Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I want to be,
Eating breakfast or dinner,
Or snack lunch in the hall.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
Finland has it all.

You're so sadly neglected
And often ignored,
A poor second to Belgium,
When going abroad.

Missa on WC?

Of the countries I've visited, I would have to say Spain had the nicest people. That would be followed by Mexico. The Mexicans were the nicest folks, just like the Spanish were. Both countries have a lot of beauty, in the land and the people. Of course I would have to add that they both felt like home, since New Mexico has a little of both these countries in our culture & people., :hippie:

but I love England da bestus. Especially Sennen Cove. Baja is getting stranger and stranger - US Oil Companies are putting in LNG facilities up and down the coast, Fox was a disaster as a President, the corruption is unbelievable, the people suffer, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the middle class, well, what's left of it, just barely holds on, human rights is a farce - editor of Zeta just murdered last month in TJ(one of thousands), TJ just elected one of the biggest drug-money launderers in the world for Major, Hank Rohn (barf),loads of rednecked good old boys from the USA down here pushing their weight around, and trying to cash in one way or another, alot of American cons, Ensenada Bay has just about the highest levels of PCP's in the world, and all the nice secret spots are being totally developed for golf courses for the rich Americans. I am frustrated with Mexico because she does not take care of her own people, and yet rates third in the world as Country with the most wealthy people, nobody pays income tax (only 20% do), that's why everything is so screwed up down here, among many others, there is no public education provided past the sixth grade,(keep 'em dumb) minimum wage is $4.00 a day, and that's usually a 12 hour day, decent health care is only for the wealthy, the polution is incredible, wonder why they all want to come to the USA? Will do Mulege and Loreto one last time in November....but I hear that Costa Rica is OUTASIGHT !


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I love the land, the people, and the ties we in the Southwest have with Mexico....oh and the ancient ruins...and the Anthropology museum, and the pyramids. :hippie:

you know, I love the beautiful aspects of Mexico, like the Pyramids, Chiapas, Oaxcaca, Guanajuato,the art,the literature, the music, the people, the mystical. Our friends are mostly from the poorer class, I am a Godparent to two children and we've helped put kids through Secondaria. We both speak Spanish, and try to avoid American encampments. It is just totally different when you are living here though, one is exposed to the reality, not the myth. This society is extremely tribal and non-integratible. The Mexicans for the most part, are horrible to the Indigenous people, they use them for slave labor in the fields up and down the coast working 12-14 hours a day, little children, too, while getting sprayed with pesticides and living in absolute squalor. I am tired of "ni modo" and fatalism, and so was Octavio Paz. Perhaps this attitude is due to their ruthless and bloody historical lineage, but instead of 'helping' and being 'kind' to tourists, they need to start 'helping' and being 'kind'to each other. Come here sometime, and I will take you on a tour of the La Mesa and La Prensa areas where Jimmy Carter and Habitat For Humanity tried to help the people. You will see hundreds of thousands of people living in the most abject of poverty,open sewers, no water, no electric, no medical, shanty homes which get washed and flooded out each rainy season, very little good nourishment, squalor and disease, right on our Border. Then, I will take you to the rich section of town, where the upper classes live in mansions with bodyguards. This is the same story throughout Mexico. Right now, as we speak, many, many of the more educated young Mexicans want nothing more to do with the USA, they see us as a tyrant and Mexico locked into a symbionic relationship which is dependent on tourism. They want US out, completely, and to be able to develop their country on their own. Whether or not this movement grows, only time will tell. Beyond the smiles and the facade of happiness and romantic aura, you will find a very deep resentment of Americans, and a dysfunctional sense of Nationalism. By the way, don't go to Cancun, the reef has been trashed out, there have been numerous kidnappings, muggings and rapes and robberies, and the State Department has issued a warning to American tourists. It is also one of the big hangouts for the Cartels. Avoid it like the plague.

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Man, I miss that place.

My italian is way out of practice, it's embarrassing really. :cry:

Sure it's not very foreign but it's very scenic and the people are friendly even the French ones, really.

We just don't show them to the 'tourists'.

You don't have a clue about our even weirder secret rituals here in Quebec! :)

They're like America without the idiots and corporate earth molesters.

They're called mining companies and they have been wreaking havoc in Latin America. Run a Google search on "Canadian mining Honduras" to get an idea of what I am talking about.

A beautiful country, nice people, great food and wine. What more could a guy ask for?

A VERY beautiful country that not many know much about. I was there for a week in 1999. I would love to visit Plovdiv again with its old and new sections of the city. We also went to a city known for its Rose Festival and I even climbed 1000 stairs to the torch of Bulgaria. I have been to quite a few foreign countries, but Bulgaria definetly stands out as one of the lease advertised and my personal favorites!

I love paella and sangria. Yo tengo primos qe viven alli.

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The people we meet are always nice. And the service is impeccable in the restaurants and shops we visit. Canadians, you should be very proud of your country. :hi:

friendly folks and water so clear one can literally see fish swimming around.

the one I used to know.

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and i am headed there in november for my birthday - yayyyyy!!!!!!

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Two words...
Legalized prostitution

...but i haven't been to one i did not like...mexico, canada, norway, england and spain...i did not get enough time in spain and i was there with a guy i picked up in norway who turned out to be a total drunken cheap vodka alcoholic!
but that's what happens to a trans-atlantic trashbag...i'd love to LIVE outside the US

I live in Mexico..on a wonderful little island and it is a wonderous place, but i love all of Mexico!

The five dollar bill has hockey on it, that's all I need.

:hi:

:toast:

:beer:

it's definitely not the same country i was born in anymore.

My love is there. But also, the more I learn about the French, the more I understand that they just don't really give a fuck if redneck 'merkins make fun of them, their government, or their military.

They really have nothing to prove to us.

I also like England, Norway, and Germany. At least I liked them when I was in high school, which is when I took my only trip to Europe. France was okay, too, although we didn't spend much time there.

Sweden comes a close second

Oh, those cute guys with the blond hair

Italy first. Why? The history, the beauty of the country and the food. The people are sorta nuts but I like em'. Just put me in Tuscany and I'll be in heaven on earth. Sigh. :)

England and Germany are a tie as to where would I like to live if it couldn't be Italy.

Like Slovakia, Slovenia, and Germany too, and maybe Russia, yes I am descended.

long range ballistics in the hizzouse, yo

Beautiful country side, just plan nice people.

My favorite country. Love the people, love the language. The second most sexiest men in the world (after Norway)

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