A topic for Rotoi! ;D
Haha thanks xD. Let's start.
No rare destinations today. Hong Kong would be the least common for today. Zak, did you been there?
Quote from: alanrotoi on October 17, 2014, 06:03:21 PM
Hong Kong would be the least common for today. Zak, did you been there?
Quote from: zaqrack on October 18, 2013, 05:06:39 AM
fake countries 8)
My list:
Europe:
Hungary (lots)
Slovakia (10+)
Austria (10+)
Romania (5)
Germany (5)
France (4)
Denmark (3)
United Kingdom (3)
Italy (3)
Greece (3)
Serbia (2)
Czech Republic (2)
Netherlands (2)
Croatia (2)
Slovenia (1)
Poland (1)
Belgium (1)
Estonia (1)
Sweden (1)
Switzerland (1)
not Europe:
China (10+)
Georgia (1)
Israel (1)
Tunisia (1)
Countries which don't exist anymore but I have been there:
Czechoslovakia (1)
Yugoslavia (1)
Fake countries:
Hong Kong (5)
Macao (1)
Vatican (1)
San Marino (1)
Monaco (1)
Oh didn't remember that post :D
BTW Vatican, Monaco and San Marino are not the same as Macao or Hong Kong.
He had to say that, 'cause there's a strict communist regime in China. Maybe he was afraid of being arrested because of a non suitable comment. :D
Haha. Then I won't be surprised if suddenly appears a Chinese pipsqueak and wins the championship :D
Quote from: alanrotoi on October 17, 2014, 07:20:32 PM
Haha. Then I won't be surprised if suddenly appears a Chinese pipsqueak and wins the championship :D
sure
Today:
Ahmedabad, India (population 5,500,000)
Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic (population 550,000)
Guangzhou, China (Cantón in spanish pop. 11,000,000)
About Ahmedabad it was surprising to don't know about a 5 million people city. Only I can deduce it's a western Indian city because the Arabic name :D. Anyway this deduction is relative because Bangladesh (or East Pakistan some decades before) is a Muslim country.
Quote from: alanrotoi on October 28, 2014, 04:32:13 PM
About Ahmedabad it was surprising to don't know about a 5 million people city.
There are many huge cities I've never heard of (mainly in Asia).
Yep me too
Today: Vietnam! (impossible to remember the city)
Also Luxembourg, it's not that rare but unusual.
Today: Romania!
This guy purchased some Hungarian stamps from Debrecen 1919-1920 but used by Romania. It seems they occupied the territory.
They are from the end of WWI and few months later. Did Romania occupied/invaded/obtained by compensation this terrritory? How did Hungary recovered it?
Wow this is interesting!
I'm sending a letter to Stockholm, Sweden and his last name was kinda curious. "Calbucura", it sounds like a Mapuche name (Mapuche is a Patagonian ethnic). Then I realized he bought an old postcard from Patagonia :D
So the southern native american blood now it's in Scandinavia :D
Rare destination today! Buenos Aires!!
It's surprising and funny :D
Slovakia again! Also Guatemala. My personal statistics says a lot of letters to Costa Rica or Guatemala are stolen. :-\
Quote from: alanrotoi on November 05, 2014, 05:17:44 PM
Today: Romania!
This guy purchased some Hungarian stamps from Debrecen 1919-1920 but used by Romania. It seems they occupied the territory.
They are from the end of WWI and few months later. Did Romania occupied/invaded/obtained by compensation this terrritory? How did Hungary recovered it?
Very briefly: after WWI, the economy of Hungary was in ruins, and the country was sinking deeper and deeper into chaos. Finally the Communists took the power in March 1919 - in a time when there was a large fear of Communism across Europe. Hence WWI winners, including Romania decided to defeat the Hungarian regime. They started a new war against Hungary, and in a few months they occupied even those parts which remained under Hungarian control at the end of WWI. (That might have been the period when this stamp was used.) For 1920 their goal was fulfilled: a right-wing government was established in Budapest, the new leaders signed the peace treaty with WWI winners, granting Transylvania to Romania. So the Romanian forces left the remaining area of Hungary.
Thank you! So there may be only few stamps like those.
Rare destination for today: Mumbai, India (12kk people) It's Bombay in Spanish (I didn't know it was the same city xD)
Yesterday: Ra'anana, Israel :o
Monday: a shawarma was eaten in Curitiba. But this is a new wave here: shawarma (a.k.a. doner kebab or simply kebab).
Quote from: Shoegazing Leo on November 22, 2014, 12:09:14 AM
Monday: a shawarma was eaten in Curitiba. But this is a new wave here: shawarma (a.k.a. doner kebab or simply kebab).
We are too close to Greece/Turkey, this kind of fast food arrived here around 1995.
Well, we are a lot further from Greece and Turkey and it arrived here in 1980.
This food arrived in Brazil on last decade with the syrian and lebanese from Foz do Iguaçu. Then, there is a simple version in São Paulo with bread called "churrasco grego" (greek barbecue).
There is a place here what the owner is a syrian and cookers are egyptians and syrians.
Past week: Israel and Bolivia!
...and Singapore!
Last week had the weirdest day ever for this:
Letters to Zambia and another rare country that I don't remember right now.
Edit: The other country is Oman. Zambia and Oman in the same day :D
Quote from: alanrotoi on December 17, 2014, 06:15:24 PM
Last week had the weirdest day ever for this:
Letters to Zambia and another rare country that I don't remember right now.
Edit: The other country is Onan. Zambia and Onan in the same day :D
Letter to Cyprus! I guess to the Greek side.
Vientiane, Laos :o
After I die, I'm going to visit every city in the world.
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on April 02, 2015, 11:14:19 AM
After I die, I'm going to visit every city in the world.
Gave me a insight: Travelling Spirit is a good name for an imaginary band.
Yes, ask to... I won't name him :D
BJ don't bother coming here if you're a spirit, I only have racional and logic powers. Esotericism isn't my field :D If you come to Buenos Aires do it alive.
Hungary isn't a rare destination but this one goes to Debrecen. I saw in google maps this guy is close to Jósza (railway station?). It seems a nice residential neighbourhood.
Tell me something about this neighbourhood (I guess Akoss is the expert in this area :) )
Yesterday another to Hungary but I can't remember the city. And a rare destination was Mexico.
I almost forget! Today was a weird day: Malta and Sri Lanka !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yesterday Bolivia :)
Now I'm sending to Germany. It's not a rare destination but I don't like my "ß" handwritten. Anyway sometimes I send letters to Russia and they doesn't bother to give me their address in Cyrillic characters. But the harder are the Chinese addresses. I have to print them and problem solved :D
you can use ss instead of ß.
I know but I like to be precise no matter the language. :)
Also I can write "Dmitri" instead of "???????" but it's not the same :D
PS: Oops no cyrillic support!
(the system turned to formatation, then)
Germans can say "kiß my aß"
Since I've started working at a hotel, I should also post about my guests from strange countries. I get a lot from Brazil, India and Japan. Most random countries so far have been Algeria and Colombia. Not that random. I'll work on it!
Yeah! Good idea BJ :)
China again. I guess it's no longer a rare destination :D
Yesterday Belgium and Iceland!
OOOH!!! PORT VILA, VANUATU.
Incredible!!! :D 1st time!!
Nice. There's something extra exotic about Pacific nations. I don't have anything new to report.
Domaszek, Hungary :D
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam :o
Yesterday: Malta!
and a rare city from Denmark I don't remember right now :D
Today: Mauricio island.
Only few countries left from Indian Ocean:
don't remember/not sure:
Mozambique
Comoros
Somalia
Djibouti
Sudan (Red Sea but still Indian Ocean)
Never sent to:
Maldives
Seychelles
Iran
Iraq (Persian Gulf but still Indian Ocean)
Quote from: alanrotoi on September 02, 2015, 08:47:04 PM
Today: Mauricio island.
Only few countries left from Indian Ocean:
don't remember/not sure:
Mozambique
Comoros
Somalia
Djibouti
Sudan (Red Sea but still Indian Ocean)
Never sent to:
Maldives
Seychelles
Iran
Iraq (Persian Gulf but still Indian Ocean)
It's very common mozambican students having college classes in Brazil. The language helps.
Thanks to Vasco da Gama. It's my team in Brazil :D
Quote from: alanrotoi on September 02, 2015, 11:55:27 PM
Thanks to Vasco da Gama. It's my team in Brazil :D
Made today a brilliant 0-6 in Internacional. Stay with 13 points in 22 game, 20th and last placed.
Ok yesterday I completed South America with French Guiana!
I have them all! Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, etc... yeah :)
Last week New Caledonie (ok not a country, but...) and today Latvia.