I have visited fifty countries.
My family have had homes in the UK, the USA, Spain, and Singapore.
We have had au pair girls living with us, who came from France, Germany, Italy and Yugoslavia.
I speak French fluently. I have restaurant Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and Dutch. I am struggling to read menus and signs in Greek, Hebrew and Russian (Cyrillic also in Bulgaria) and Chinese symbolic signs (also used in Japan).
ALBANIA
The best thing? The colourful buildings in the city centre and throughout the country. Designed to raise morale at a time of economic crisis.
Scary - Cliffside roads in the remote north to maintntop viewpoints and resort south to busy beach resort.
ANDORRA
AUSTRALIA Super cities, Sydney and Perth.
BAHAMAS
BELGIUM
CAMBODIA
(Siem Reap for a tour of:) Ankor Wat. Scary moments. Losing our rickshaw at the entrance. One rickshaw when we said goodbye. At the end of the day, a national holiday, there were hundreds, and our vehicle had been told by police to move to the next car park.
Second scary moment. I lost my ricksahw. Supposed to meet me by the gold Buddha at the entrance. The route through a temple was in one entrance and out the other side. All four entrances had a large gold seated Buddhas.
CANADA Niagara Falls
CHINA Shanghai waterfront. Great Wall. (Wishlist terracotta warrors.) Scary moment, losing my tour group in China where I could not speak a word of Chinese. Getting on a coach tour bus and half a mile down the road discovering they were a German speaking group.
CORSICA Worst disaster. Guitarists played late into the night keeping me awake. The coach to the airport broke down and we were told to cross the road. I was knocked down by a car, had multiple injuries and was not expected to survive. (1984.)
CROATIA (Dubrovnik when it was Yugoslavia)
CYPRUS Greek and Turkish
DENMARK Hand Andersen's Home
DUBAI
ENGLAND Brighton Pavilion, York Shambles, Cornwall , Lake District - Wordsworth's House, Waddesdon, Bronte House Museum, Yorkshire, Oxford, Cambridge, Hadrian's Wall, Cadbury's Factory. London's Keats House, Dickens House, National and Tate Gallery, Portrait gallery.
FINLAND
FRANCE Paris. Worst disaster. My family drove from overnight at our ex au pair girl's home in Rheims, across France to the border. I then realised I had left my passport behind in a passport neck bag on the back or a chair.
GERMANY
GREECE
HAWAII
HONG KONG
HUNGARY
INDIA Scary moment. Losing my taxi at a shopping centre with four entrances. All the taxi drivers had dark skins, dark hair and black moustaches. All the taxis had number plates ending in the same three letters which was code for a taxi from that city.
INDONESIA
IRELAND
ISRAEL Historic and biblical Jerusalem, Art deco (Bauhaus) beach city of Tel Aviv (founded in 1909), kibbutzim, Ein Gedi waterfall into the water by the cave.
ITALY Roman Rome, Opera in La Scala Milan, Umbria Etruscan gateway
JORDAN Petra
KOREA (SOUTH KOREA)
LUXEMBOURG
MALAYSIA
MALTA
MEXICO
MOROCCO Marrakesh
NEPAL
NEW ZEALAND
POLAND Auschwitz Birkenau, and Schindler's Factory Museum
PORTUGAL Mountainside s-bends along the Douro valley from Oporto to Regua and onwards to Spain.
RUSSIA
SAN MARINO
SING MAARTEN
SCOTLAND Edinburgth. Hilltop Castle. Portrait Gallery. Poets' area of old town and museums.Tartans and bagpipes.
SINGAPORE Night Safari. Botanic gardens and orchid garden.
SOUTH AFRICA Table Mountain
SPAIN Barcelona's Gaudi Cathedral, Scary moments, Cliffside S bends in Picos de Europa.
SWITZERLAND Alprose Chocolate Factory. Covered bridges.
THAILAND Royyyal Palace.Floating Market.
TUNISIA
TURKEY Blue Mosque and Green Mosque
VIETNAM Halong Bay. best sight
Scary moment - first tuk tuk ride at speed from airport to checkin at hotel.Tuk-tuk (motorcycle carriage) transfer to hotel in Sien Reap.
YUGOSLAVIA Dubrovnik, now CROATIA
WALES Brunel's bridge Fishguard Last Invasion Tapestry, Caerleon Roman Museum. Worst disaster. I was driving to my annual writers summer holiday in Caerleon,Wales. On the M4. Another car drove innnto the back of my car. I had to transfer by train to my destination.
USA Disneyland LA, DisneyWorld Florida, Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon. New York's Jewish Museum, Sex museum and many more.
WISHLIST
CHINA
Terracotta Warriors
UKRAINE
BEST TRANSPORT
Tuk-tuk (motorcycle carriage) transfer to hotel in Sien Reap.
TRAVEL TIPS
1 Keep a track of your own best and worst holiday experiences.
2 Make an ecel document of trips, hotels, museums, favourite food.
I am compiling this all week. Come back every day for updates on mine.
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