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Willy waving with friends about how many countries we've been to.
Back in 1990 I transmitted through Austria on a train. This is not being allowed. Even though I went through the border and if I committed a crime I would be subject to Austrian law.
I say yes.
No, you've been through, not to. All your friends are right. Du bist ein Verlierer.
Have I been to Russia? I've flown over it. Have I been to Taiwan? I flew from Hong Kong to Japan and the plane landed in Taiwan and we had to get off and wait for an hour in a departure lounge, but I never went through immigration or customs so I don't have a stamp in my passport.
Feet on the ground, and through passport control, if required.
I say your mates are correct.
Ich wette dein Schwanz ist doch so klein du kannst es eh nicht rumwedeln.... Egal ob du in Österreich warst oder nicht.
Du Loser..
Aber, ganz im Ernst..... Not really. It's like me saying I've been to Luxembourg because I drove through it on the way to the UK (although I did stop at the petrol station because it's cheap as **** compared to Germany and France).
I think I’d need to have left the airport in order to count it. Which is a pity, I transited through Bangkok airport once. But since I didn’t leave the terminal, I can’t add it to my list.
So unless the OP got off the train, I don’t think it counts.
Aber, ganz im Ernst..... Not really. It's like me saying I've been to Luxembourg because I drove through it on the way to the UK (although I did stop at the petrol station because it's cheap as **** compared to Germany and France).
Driving through a country counts imo - although driving through a state in the USA doesn't, for some reason.
I am going to say yes.
You were physically in the country you crossed the borders by land. Arguing about the length of time is haggling over the price.
However in a gesture of good will i would award myself half a point. Unless you did a poo on the train within the border under those conditions i would say stick to your guns for the full point.
Alpin i would say if you stopped and bought petrol you 100% get to count it.
I've changed planes in Dubai, HongKong, Shanghai and Bangkok, I don't really count any of those but I take your point. I was still technically not in the country as I remained airside, but the train was definitely in Austria and you were in the train...
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I went to Austria by accident for a similar reason, I was on the train from Munich to Lubjana and there was a cock up somewhere and had to get off in Austria and spent a night in the station hotel
Alpin i would say if you stopped and bought petrol you 100% get to count it.
Well, I'm not counting it.
Zero cultural experience/exchange other than "err, bon jour. Numero chiunque. Grazie".
If you lose, you can always tell the 'winner' of how many baby Robins they have killed with excessive travel. Hee hee.
Alpin i would say if you stopped and bought petrol you 100% get to count it.
Well, I'm not counting it.
Zero cultural experience/exchange other than "err, bon jour. Numero chiunque. Grazie".
You have been to Austria in the same way Luke Littler is an athlete.
Ich hab drein Worte im Kopf: Luger, Betruger, Angeber. Aber ich gratulierer dir das du da mit der Bahn gefahren bist - ein art okologisch angeber, so wie ich. 😉
Alpin, ich habe den Schwanz des OPs doch abgemessen und schaetze es ist maessig gross statt winzig klein...
In meinem Alter ist mann zufrienden wenn es genug gross ist um nicht auf die schuhe zu pinkeln
Was there an Austrian stamp in your passport?
Not sure I'd count passport stamps. We were in Vienna in April for 4 or 5 days and my passport got stamped but then went to Bratislava for a couple of days but no stamps on the passport for entering Slovakia.
I was in Austria and walked over a mountain pass to Italy, and then back again. No passports were stamped.
Yeah, passport stamps are weird.
I was going to say that if you've got a passport stamp, you've definitely been to the country (but not having one doesn't mean you haven't).
But... I transited through China on the way to/from Australia a few years ago, and I got stamps then, which doesn't feel like it should really count. Pretty long layover, but didn't leave the airport.
I was going to say that if you've got a passport stamp, you've definitely been to the country (but not having one doesn't mean you haven't)
I should have just said that, then we'd have been spared a couple of "I went to Austria and didn't get my passport stamped" stories. 🙂
I transited via Delhi when I went to Nepal and I briefly stepped outside the Delhi airport. I consider myself having been to India. That's my rule...
(IIRC, I had to get an Indian visa and I definitely went went thru passport control)
Servus - ich musst sagen du spinnst OP
Worst quiz question ever
I don't think he was there long enough to eat a Wurst.
Driving back across Europe once we diverted specifically to go through Liechtenstein.
Didn't stop. Didn't get our passports checked. But we drove on Liechtenstein roads.
Did we actually visit Liechtenstein?
I've transited through San Fransisco but having never left the airport and never having seen the Golden Gate Bridge (too foggy), I'm not sure I can claim that as a city I've visited...
I took a photo out of the train window of the Austrian countryside. How can I have taken it ,if I wasn’t there?
In 2008 I took a train from Zurich to Munich and it passed through Austria. 10 years later I worked in Vienna for a year. Didn't really count the first visit.
Not read the thread, but nobody is saying you didn't go there, and even if they did, it doesn't matter because they didn't say it. Look Listen here, you didn't go there to go there, you passed through on the way to somewhere else. And that is how you say something without reference to rusty white vans.
A fella I was travelling with from Vienna to Graz got told off, in German, by a drunk hungover fare-dodging Austrian woman on a Railjet train some years back. For being too loud.
He was the quietest most softly spoken fella from Limerick you'd ever meet. And to rub salt in the wound, I pointed out to him that she thought he was ENGLISH 🤣.
20 minutes latest the guard collared her for fare dodging (and annoying other passengers).
We were definitely in Austria. Unlike the OP.
(It was a 3 day trip, working at a former U boat factory. Don't tell em your name Pike.)
Not a country but a city.... In the past I've flown into Chicago O'Hare airport so many times, had my passport stamped etc, hung around for internal flights but never left the airport or gone into Chicago. So, when I do a count of US places I've been to I never count Chicago although it always slightly bugs me I never actually had a look.
Riding up a hill on the Austrian border with some Germans (in single file, very tidy, three riders) a car came up behind and started honking and revving. The German in front of me didn't look round but made some choice comments about Austrians. When the car eventually rushed past it did indeed have Austrian plates. Never been back on a bike.
If you travelled the way that you state in the original post then you’re not actually a real person and don’t exist. Are you a hologram?
Na, I've had airport transfers in various places, Quatar for example, but wouldn't say I'd 'been there', more 'been through there'. I'm even dubious about having 'been' to the US. I had a long wait between planes at Newark airport and blagged a bus pass into Manhattan where I wondered round and looked at stuff like the World Trade Centre - yes it was a while ago - and bought some cheap CDs.
I've been to Austria several times. Nice mountains.
You have only been to Austria if you have seen a kangaroo.
I’ve been to Austria
But I’ve never been to me.
Never been back on a bike.
Don't bother....
It's shit.
2m rule and even then your not necessarily allowed to ride.
Mountainbiker fordern freie Fahrt auf Forstwegen
A few years back when the "migrant crisis" kicked off there were lots of border checks.
We were on our way back from Trentino and hot stopped at the border to Austria. The guy asks "warum fahren Sie nach Österreich?".
"Wir fahren nicht nach Österreich, sondern durch. Leider liegt Österreich zwischen Italien und mein Zuhause."
I told him that we weren't driving to Austria, but rather through it because unfortunately it lay between Italy and my home.
Fortunately, he laughed.
I laughed too. It's like the relationship between the French and the Belgians.
Hang on, a U-boat factory in Austria?
If you travelled the way that you state in the original post then you’re not actually a real person and don’t exist. Are you a hologram?
I did notice that. all aboard the light train.