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Where was Ax?

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    Daniel
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    #2

    Wow! Travel again in 2028.

    'But as they said in one of the later Rocky movies, "Time...it's undefeated.".-- Mik

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    • AxtremusA Axtremus

      All I did was traveling outside the country for a month and see what happened!!!
      (If you like what happened, you should pay me to travel again in 2028. 😉 )

      For a bit of fun, try to guest where I visited with the pictures below. 🙂

      #1:
      Ax01.jpg

      #2:
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      #3:
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      #5:
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      #6:
      Ax06.jpg

      #7:
      Ax07.jpg

      #8:
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      #11:
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      ShiroKuroS
      ShiroKuroS
      ShiroKuro
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      #3

      @Axtremus said:
      (If you like what happened, you should pay me to travel again in 2028. 😉 )

      Great photos! I won’t embarrass myself by trying to guess, although some of them I have an idea.

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      • AxtremusA
        AxtremusA
        Axtremus
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        #4

        Answers:

        1. San Francisco
        2. Seoul (aerial view while approaching ICN)
        3. Mount Shōwa-shinzan, Hokkaido, Japan
        4. Bangkok airport (BKK)
        5. Singapore
        6. Lisbon, Portugal
        7. Also Lisbon, Portugal
        8. Fátima, Portugal
        9. Nazaré, Portugal
        10. Stuttgart, Germany
        11. Some small town near Stuttgart, Germany
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        • ShiroKuroS
          ShiroKuroS
          ShiroKuro
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          #5

          What a great trip!! What were some of the highlights?

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          • wtgW
            wtgW
            wtg
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            #6

            I missed this thread....@axtremus , giving @jon-nyc a run for the title of WTF's Senior World Traveler...

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              Daniel
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              #7

              I got 1 correct. #1.

              So my score is less than 10%.

              Yikes.

              'But as they said in one of the later Rocky movies, "Time...it's undefeated.".-- Mik

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              • ShiroKuroS ShiroKuro

                What a great trip!! What were some of the highlights?

                AxtremusA
                AxtremusA
                Axtremus
                wrote last edited by Axtremus
                #8

                @ShiroKuro said:

                What a great trip!! What were some of the highlights?

                • Public transportation: apparently Lisbon now uses the same model of public busses and fare collection system as San Francisco.

                • Electronic passport control systems: every country implements some sort of electronic passport control system these days. Singapore's is the only one I have seen working quickly and perfectly. Everywhere else, I saw visitors needing to rescan their passports or needing some sort of human agent assistance to get through. Not Singapore -- a big plane load of visitors all got through passport control in a matter of minutes without human agent intervention.

                • Ice cream: I continue to find that, more likely than not, European ice cream is less creamy but more flavorful than American ice cream. Japanese ice cream vendors often offer a “just milk” option, while the plainest you can get in the USA is “vanilla.”

                • Seafood and day drinking: never had so much octopus as my days in Lisbon; wine was served at every lunch.

                • Culture and tech for personal hygiene: I had the chance to experience, many days in a row, first the Japanese-style electronic bidets then also a European-style non-electronic bidet, from which I concluded rather confidently that the Japanese-style electronic bidets are functionally superior and vastly more user friendly.

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                • AxtremusA Axtremus

                  @ShiroKuro said:

                  What a great trip!! What were some of the highlights?

                  • Public transportation: apparently Lisbon now uses the same model of public busses and fare collection system as San Francisco.

                  • Electronic passport control systems: every country implements some sort of electronic passport control system these days. Singapore's is the only one I have seen working quickly and perfectly. Everywhere else, I saw visitors needing to rescan their passports or needing some sort of human agent assistance to get through. Not Singapore -- a big plane load of visitors all got through passport control in a matter of minutes without human agent intervention.

                  • Ice cream: I continue to find that, more likely than not, European ice cream is less creamy but more flavorful than American ice cream. Japanese ice cream vendors often offer a “just milk” option, while the plainest you can get in the USA is “vanilla.”

                  • Seafood and day drinking: never had so much octopus as my days in Lisbon; wine was served at every lunch.

                  • Culture and tech for personal hygiene: I had the chance to experience, many days in a row, first the Japanese-style electronic bidets then also a European-style non-electronic bidet, from which I concluded rather confidently that the Japanese-style electronic bidets are functionally superior and vastly more user friendly.

                  AdagioMA
                  AdagioMA
                  AdagioM
                  wrote last edited by
                  #9

                  @Axtremus These are great observations; thank you for sharing!

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                  • AndyDA
                    AndyDA
                    AndyD
                    wrote last edited by AndyD
                    #10

                    I guessed 6&7, seems as it was in 1984.

                    Ventosa viri restabit

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                    • AndyDA
                      AndyDA
                      AndyD
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                      #11

                      #3 is interesting to me as a daughter plans to live in Hokkaido. Lots of snow, but a very beautiful island.

                      Ventosa viri restabit

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