Where was Ax?
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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.
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- San Francisco
- Seoul (aerial view while approaching ICN)
- Mount Shōwa-shinzan, Hokkaido, Japan
- Bangkok airport (BKK)
- Singapore
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Also Lisbon, Portugal
- Fátima, Portugal
- Nazaré, Portugal
- Stuttgart, Germany
- Some small town near Stuttgart, Germany
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What a great trip!! What were some of the highlights?
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Public transportation: apparently Lisbon now uses the same model of public busses and fare collection system as San Francisco.
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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.
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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.”
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Seafood and day drinking: never had so much octopus as my days in Lisbon; wine was served at every lunch.
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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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What a great trip!! What were some of the highlights?
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Public transportation: apparently Lisbon now uses the same model of public busses and fare collection system as San Francisco.
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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.
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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.”
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Seafood and day drinking: never had so much octopus as my days in Lisbon; wine was served at every lunch.
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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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