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The Maracana, of course, but I guess less than 10% of us have been there.
I find the Arc de Triomphe a strange selection for Paris. What does it mean to have "been" there? Do you need to have gone to the observation deck or otherwise inside? Very few Parisians will have done that. Is it sufficient to have seen it from across the road?
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostThere are also frequent posters here (WOM being the one who comes most immediately to mind) who don't give a toffees about football.
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This thread is going to be a spectacular map of flawed ideas.
I very much doubt there is anywhere everyone has been. If there is it will be something mundane like Schipol or Heathrow (International hub airports). After that you start applying layers of "well of course everyone is interested in what I am" which is a path to disaster.
WOM's path of countries is officially cheating.
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Originally posted by WOM View PostI assume everyone here has been to either France or Spain at least once.
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I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Green Lanes seeing as half the board used to live "just off Green Lanes" at one time or another. Probably more than have done the Camp Nou stadium tour (?) even.
Anyway dglh is right, we've more or less established by now that the number of places everyone on the board has visited is precisely zero.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostI find the Arc de Triomphe a strange selection for Paris. What does it mean to have "been" there? Do you need to have gone to the observation deck or otherwise inside? Very few Parisians will have done that. Is it sufficient to have seen it from across the road?
Other suggestions:
Nice - nope, but did make it to Cannes.
Isle of Greece - Yes, one of them (Zakynthos) for a week.
Manchester - I went to an open day at the University, so I guess that counts. Didn't see very much of the place, though.
Camp Nou - No. Never visited Barcelona. Hardly even been to Spain, in fact. Probably three days in total.
Golden Triangle - No. Or anywhere else in India. Or indeed Asia.
Angkor Wat - No, see above.
Grand Canyon - No. I've not been to many places in the US, actually. Probably only a handful in total, and not this one.
Tower of London - Yes
Wembley - Yes
Maracana - No. To either.
San Siro - No
Heathrow Airport - Yes
New York City - Yes
Times Square - Yes
Empire State Building - Yes
Central Park - Yes
Statue of Liberty - No. We had tickets, but were too busy getting drunk to use them...
East Berlin - Yes
Vancouver - No
Santorini - No
St. John's - No
Schiphol - Yes
Gatwick - Yes
Stansted - Yes
Luton - Yes
Halifax, Yorkshire or Nova Scotia versions - No
Champ de Mars - Yes
Tate Modern - Yes
Südtirol - Yes
National Portrait Gallery, as a separate thing from Trafalgar Square - No
Offered as negative examples:-
Stonehenge - No. Driven past many times, never stopped.
Edinburgh Castle - No. Did walk up to it, but it was shut.
Hampton Court - Yes
Death Valley - No
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Originally posted by Fussbudget View Postwe've more or less established by now that the number of places everyone on the board has visited is precisely zero.
* - Planet Earth is a given.
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Oh, I once did this for myself for (modern) English counties. There is one outstanding. And that was an oddity, as it's fairly close to me - Surrey.
My criteria for having visited was setting foot on the ground rather than driving through. That allows me to get Lancashire through stopping, once, at Lancaster Services.
Edit - actually it turns out Surbiton Hockey Club is in Surrey rather than Greater London. So I completed the set as of February last year.Last edited by Janik; 27-09-2018, 14:09.
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