Numbers about yourself

[alanrotoi]

I actually was at Perito Moreno Glacier (50°29?S 73°03?O) so that's probably the southernmost point we forum members have been. Here's a pic to confirm

Oh yes? So I was in... in... Lanus!

How could we know if that's a glacier and not San Lorenzo's Stadium?

[Chulk]

How could we know if that's a glacier and not San Lorenzo's Stadium?

Because it's fixed on the same neighbourhood since the beginning!

[CTG]

How could we know if that's a glacier and not San Lorenzo's Stadium?

Because it's fixed on the same neighbourhood since the beginning!

Sorry, but I couldn't leave it out...

[Usrin]

I wonder about the coordinates of your hometown - it would be more interesting to check our relative records (degrees counted from hometown coordinates).

Actually, I was wondering where I was furthest from home. (I'm considering Szolnok as my hometown; that's where I spent the most time in my life, and the No.1 place where I feel myself at home.) Based on Google Earth, my furthest position from Szolnok was 2632 km away, on the west coast of Portugal (close to the SW tip).

Szolnok is at 47°10' N, 20°11' E, so my relative records in degrees are:

North: 21° 38' (68° 48' N, Harstad, NOR)
South: 10° 09' (37° 01' N, Faro, POR)
West: 29° 24' (9° 13' W, Cabo Espichel, POR)
East: 5° 56' (26° 07' E, Palanca, ROM)

It would be really good to improve the crappy East record. The second worst is South, but the most reachable places in this direction (Africa & Middle East) are not too interesting for me. If once I go south, I'd rather travel to S America, where I can see the southern skies as well as Stunts pipsqueaks / ghosts.

[BonzaiJoe]

If Aarhus is my hometown, that would mean something like:

North: 10 (well, it's hard to go that much further North when your starting point is so northern...)
East: 129
South: 34
West: 32

But of course, my South extreme (Macau) was dramatically further away than my West extreme (Iceland), even though they look close above.

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

Location: 48°15'N 20°38'E Kazincbarcika, Hungary

North 7°54' (56°09'N, Aarhus, Denmark)
South 14°16' (33°59'N Los Angeles, Venice, United States of America, California)
West 143°7' (122°29'W San Francisco, Golden Gate Bridge, United States of America, California)
East 8° 26' (29°4'E, Fatih Istanbul, Sultan Mehmet Bridge on Bosphorus, Turkey)

Elevation: 135m for Kazincbarcika, 2024m for Chopok, relative: 1889m).*

*On Saturday it might have broken, since there is a small mound (where the Pät' Spišských plies, Szepesi Öt-tó, Five Lakes of Szepes can be seen) behind Téryho Chata (2015m) which I climbed, and its relative elevation could be more than 9 meters.

[CTG]

Location: 47° 31' N, 19° 9' E, Budapest, Hungary

North: 3° 42' (51° 13' N, Brugge, Belgium)
South: 2° 17' (45° 14' N, Novi Sad, Serbia)
East: 2° 59' (22° 8' E, Nyírbátor, Hungary)
West: 15° 56' (3° 13' E, Brugge, Belgium)

At least my task is far the easiest to break personal records...

[alanrotoi]

Nice math test

North: 82º
East: 60º
South: 10º
West: 7º

BTW I did a magic carpet to reach Europe

[BonzaiJoe]

Great picture!

[CTG]

This is my 1000th workday at the company.

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

Now I show the list by signing how many times I visited the country (NOT counting transit visits)

Visited:

- Hungary (lots)
- Slovakia (x25+)
- Croatia (x4)
- Romania (x3)
- Poland (x3)
- USA (x2)
- Great Britain (x1)
- Belgium (x1)
- Denmark (x1)
- Germany (x1)
- Italy (x1)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (x1)
- Montenegro (x1)
- Albania (x1)
- Turkey (x1)
- Austria (x1)

Semi-transit (with car, stopped several times to look around in the mountains):

- Slovenia (x0.5)

Transit (with bus, or flight exchange airport country):

- Holland (x0)
- France (x0)

I don't mention flight transit countries here. I visited one fake country by flight transit, but I haven't mentioned it: Greenland.

New visited country will be added next Saturday, Bulgaria. I'll spend there 8 days.

New transit country will also be added next Friday, Serbia. We'll actually going to cross the country from the Northwest to the Southeast via Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade) in our - Sofia - Plodviv - Stara Zagora - Burgas - way to Sozopol.

[CTG]

Now I show the list by signing how many times I visited the country (NOT counting transit visits)

Visited:

- Hungary (lots)
- Slovakia (x25+)
- Croatia (x4)
- Romania (x3)
- Poland (x3)
- USA (x2)
- Great Britain (x1)
- Belgium (x1)
- Denmark (x1)
- Germany (x1)
- Italy (x1)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (x1)
- Montenegro (x1)
- Albania (x1)
- Turkey (x1)
- Austria (x1)

Semi-transit (with car, stopped several times to look around in the mountains):

- Slovenia (x0.5)

Transit (with bus, or flight exchange airport country):

- Holland (x0)
- France (x0)

I don't mention flight transit countries here. I visited one fake country by flight transit, but I haven't mentioned it: Greenland.

New visited country will be added next Saturday, Bulgaria. I'll spend there 8 days.

New transit country will also be added next Friday, Serbia. We'll actually going to cross the country from the Northwest to the Southeast via Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade) in our - Sofia - Plodviv - Stara Zagora - Burgas - way to Sozopol.

=Poo won't have the chance to win Pristina! Come on, Duplode!

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

New countries:

Bulgaria (seven nights in Sozopol, also visiting Nessebar and Burgas, travelling through the main railway via Sofia)

Transit:

Serbia (- Horgos - Újvidék/Novi Sad - Nándorfehérvár/Belgrád - Nis/Nissza - Pirot/Sarköi - Dimitrovgrad (the Serbian one) -)

Another interesting record:

70 stotinka for a 170 g freshly baked, delicious pizza slice in Burgas + 0.2 liter of a soft drink (that was not very good)... 1 leva = 1/1.95 Euro = 100 stotinka... 3 pizza slices=a very good dinner for only a lil more than 1 Euro, that is awesome... and they have to hire the building and still have income on it... now think about Western European prices...

[CTG]

now think about Western European prices...

now think about salmonella and botulism...

[zaqrack]

and consider Western-European wages...

then compare Hungarian wages to Bulgarian wages... and Hungarian prices to Bulgarian prices.

something's not right, right?