I like Lonely Planet's guides, but their destination lists are sometimes hilarious.
For example, the top 10 countries to visit in 2011 included Syria and Japan. In 2010, it included Greece.
So here is the link to the list this year.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/27/travel/top-destinations-2012/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7
Time will tell which of these countries will be hit by revolutions, tsunamis, nuclear disasters, and/or financial meltdowns this year, but they put Orlando in the list. :lol: And they specified it was for the city, not the theme parks. I'm imagining a lonely planet customer, still recovering from a holiday tear gassing in 2010 greece, and irradiated last year in Japan, flying into Orlando only to discover it has South Florida heat without the beaches or ocean breeze, mosquitos thicker than the gridlocked traffic, and with the type of Florida culture frequently featured on cops.
Burma? :lol:
Atlantic Canada? :lol: Enjoy the drunk newfies.
Quote from: Ed Anger on January 01, 2012, 08:07:43 PM
Burma? :lol:
Atlantic Canada? :lol: Enjoy the drunk newfies.
I think they mean Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI, as Newfoundland is a fucking hole inhabited by retards and those places are much nicer looking.
Pippy Longstocking(or whatever that PEI character is) and Potatoes. Pass.
Pippi Longstocking is from Nova Scotia?? I thought she was Swedish or something.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 01, 2012, 08:36:25 PM
Pippi Longstocking is from Nova Scotia?? I thought she was Swedish or something.
(or whatever that PEI character is)
Sigh.
He is thinking of Anne of Green Gables.
Quote from: Ed Anger on January 01, 2012, 08:07:43 PM
Burma? :lol:
Atlantic Canada? :lol: Enjoy the drunk newfies.
Yeah, those two jumped out--Burma is an early top contender to be the syria of 2012. I think they may have started with the question: where are the Olympics? and then just started throwing darts at a map.
Still, I'd rather go to Myanmar than Orlando.
Quote from: Ed Anger on January 01, 2012, 08:07:43 PM
Atlantic Canada? :lol: Enjoy the drunk newfies.
My parents love to go camping up there. Apparently, it's quiet.
Quote from: alfred russel on January 01, 2012, 08:49:59 PM
Still, I'd rather go to Myanmar than Orlando.
Only difference is Myanmar has less Asians.
Didn't Hillary pay Myanmar a visit recently?
Doesn't that make them all cool and shit now?
Quote from: Tonitrus on January 01, 2012, 09:01:58 PM
Didn't Hillary pay Myanmar a visit recently?
Doesn't that make them all cool and shit now?
She was lecturing them. Big difference.
I refuse to use all these new names.
Quote from: Tonitrus on January 01, 2012, 09:01:58 PM
Didn't Hillary pay Myanmar a visit recently?
Doesn't that make them all cool and shit now?
That is the reason given for putting them in the list.
I didn't single that one out because some people want to get off the beaten path--but I don't know if that is the off the path place I would pick.
Quote from: Tonitrus on January 01, 2012, 09:01:58 PM
Didn't Hillary pay Myanmar a visit recently?
Doesn't that make them all cool and shit now?
They're letting the pro-democracy party stand in the upcoming election aren't they?
Quote from: Ed Anger on January 01, 2012, 09:04:04 PM
I refuse to use all these new names.
Indeed.
Peking
Bombay
Calcutta
Rhodesia
Fuck everybody.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 01, 2012, 09:03:37 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on January 01, 2012, 09:01:58 PM
Didn't Hillary pay Myanmar a visit recently?
Doesn't that make them all cool and shit now?
She was lecturing them. Big difference.
I think the big point of that visit is that the minions of Than Shwe were willing to put up with her visit, lecturing and visiting Aung San Suu Kiy. The SLORC successors seem desperate for the loving care of somebody other than China.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 01, 2012, 09:32:44 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on January 01, 2012, 09:01:58 PM
Didn't Hillary pay Myanmar a visit recently?
Doesn't that make them all cool and shit now?
They're letting the pro-democracy party stand in the upcoming election aren't they?
Yep. And the visit was very tightly arranged with Aung San Suu Kyi, it wouldn't have happened without her approval. There's real hope there now and the West needs to start engaging and lifting sanctions.
Also from what I've heard Greece is always worth a visit.
If I have any money my travel trips this year will take me abroad. I've not been able to afford travel outside the UK for the past few years. I've friends I want to visit in the Netherlands and Bosnia so I'll try and get there. Aside from that I want somewhere warm at some point. Probably Tunisia or Spain.
If I have no money I'll just break down and end up on some English coast again <_<