Besides my home country, Belgium, I have been to, everywhere from one time to many times, the Netherlands, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, France, Germany, Austria, Poland and the United Kingdom. I visited zoos in five of those countries (Belgium, Netherlands, France, Germany and United Kingdom).
Countries and Territories visited Antigua (but not Barbuda) Argentina Australia Belgium Botswana Cameroon Canada Chile China Denmark Dominica Ecuador El Salvador Finland France Germany Ghana Grenada Guatemala Hungary Ireland Israel Italy Luxembourg Japan Madagascar Malaysia (Sabah) Mexico Morocco Netherlands Norway Oman Panama Papua New Guinea Peru Poland Romania Singapore South Africa South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Thailand Turkey Uganda UAE UK (and Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man) USA Vatican City Zimbabwe (plus Airport birding in Aruba and Kenya)
I have hardly been anywhere Scotland (I live there) England (many times) France (once) USA (once) Wales (once)
i have bena to africa Tanzania South Africa Seychelles Mauritius asia United Arab Emirates Mongolia Malaysia europ United Kingdom Switzerland Sweden Spain Norway Netherlands Monaco Italy Greece Germany France Finland Denmark Cyprus Croatia Belgium Austria
In order of (approximate) time spent there Germany: most of my life Austria: studied there for five years Switzerland: sister lives there Holidays in: Italy France Spain (only Canary Islands) Portugal Greece Wales England Netherlands Denmark Slovenia Croatia Bosnia and Herzegowina Montenegro Albania (the last five ones on one road trip) Work related: Luxembourg Only passthrough/day trips Sweden Belgium Scotland Poland Czechia Hungary This summer will hopefully add Norway and Finland
I have a massive list of: USA Canada Hopefully I can reply to this in ten years with a much longer list
USA, Bahamas, Mexico, Japan, the Philippines (for a few hours), Singapore (for a single day), Thailand, Vietnam
Blimey I haven't updated in a while. Just a few additions. Bold = new Antigua and Barbuda Austria Belgium Botswana Costa Rica Czech Republic Denmark Dominica Ethiopia France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Luxembourg Malaysia Nepal Netherlands Poland Portugal Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom United States of America (CA, AZ, NV, FL, GA) Vatican City Vietnam Plus Jersey and Gibraltar.
My one trip to Sweden was as a Leader at the World Scout Jamboree in 2011, so it was almost all spent in one very large Swedish field! However, I did take the opportunity to go on an ecological visit to parts of Skane on one day.
Turkey (grew up there, :| I traveled to many corners of the country however) USA (I have relatives there so I have been to a few visits before I went there for college) France (A trip that happened after my dad remarried, tends to get in the back of my mind) Netherlands (A trip so great that I tried to pretend being dead to avoid returning to Turkey.) Belgium (First visit was to Bruge during the Netherlands visit. The second was during the Germany trip.) Germany (The main purpose was Zoo berlin and Cologne zoo. I didn't know about Tierpark Berlin so I didn't plan about that either.) Switzerland (Went there to participate for a choir festival) Greece (For some reason the one place in Turkey where I could take a GED test [laugh all you want and call me an ignoramus idc (I lied I am sort of insecure about it)] did not respond to me and my mom when we tried to contact them. Athens was still nice however) Japan (I never knew it would have happened) Waited in UAE for hours for a transfer flight.
I forgot to mention the one moment when I went to Batumi for dinner during my tour of the black see with my dad.
I wish I could go to more places, but these are the places I’ve been: England (Live There) Wales (School Residential) France (Holiday) Spain (Holiday, Majorca and Lanzarote) Monaco (Holiday)
I know transits actualy don't count but when you can spot a Lifer on the airport-ground I somehow think it should count. This was the case for a few days when the plain from the Gambia made a stop-over at the Cape Verdian islands. On the island of Sal we had to leave the plain and we stayed about 1 hour at the airport. Here I saw an un-identified plover on the runway but it was to fast to see which species it was. A little later I was able to see several times Cape Verdian sparrows, a species which I tried to see already a few years ago but with no succes ( see Searching the Cape verdian sparrow...in the Netherlands ). This time I was however succesfull althrough the sparrows we to fast to take photos of it.... ( maybe a next time ).
I have actually developed a system for recording bird sightings from transit stops on my main life list - instead of noting the country, I put the IATA airport code - covers me for all those times I can't leave the bird off the list but can't claim it as a visit to the country.
