October 1, 2005 | In: Travel
Travel tally
The question might appear to be simple enough:
What is the criteria for a “countable” visit to a country? Or, when can you rightfully claim to having been to any given country?
The answer turned out to be highly debatable though. Some argue that you have to spend the night and try the local brew, others counter by saying that you just need to clear customs and get a coffee or something to eat.
So here is my 2 cents on this: you’ve got a seven hour layover and you can go out of the airport to check the city out, but don’t want to get too far. I would be inclined to add that you have to go see something for the visit to count, but maybe you won’t have enough time, so the visit should count anyway if you’ve gotten OUT of the airport, walked around a bit, and had a drink somewhere.
3 Responses to Travel tally
Mike
October 4th, 2005 at 9:56 am
OK. I can buy that. Let’s see if Jason concurs. I think at the very least as long as you have SOME kind of cultural interaction outside the airport it’s countable. By the way, I’m wearing the shirt of which you own one third. A dog chased me down the street and managed to grab it with his teeth and ripped the bottom part completely off before I could get away.
I’m pretty sure that was YOUR part of the shirt.
Hani
October 4th, 2005 at 12:43 pm
HA! You didn’t really think I’d fall for that, did you?! Take a pic of the ragged tshirt and post it on your blog.
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