England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Germany, Spain, Yugoslavia, Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, USA, Canada, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Namibia, Mauritius, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Switzerland and some others I’ve probably forgotten … what gets me is the places we’ve never been, like Australasia and South America, and hardly stepped foot east of the Rhine.

Quote Originally Posted by hifinutt View Post
yes not a safe place to go sadly !! tunisia seems off limits too now
We went on a trip from the synagogue in D’Jerba along the north of the Sahara through the Berber mountain villages and into Muslim Douz and the Red Lizard Railway in the Selja gorges close to Algeria, which all became a bit Al Qaeda a few years ago. We arrived in Tunis and left on the day of the Arab Spring. You just have to take care you have a trustworthy guide that isn’t inclined to ransom you.

Last year we were up near the Tibetan border with India on the Dalai Lama’s birthday and we gatecrashed a party, courtesy of our guide for the day who was from a family of nomadic goat herders who were camped nearby. That’s been a hotspot for years and was closed until the mid 1980s. I went there in 1987 and it was OK. It was clear some Tibetans had come over the border for the celebrations and a piece of cake. The Free Tibet flag on the back wall would get them in trouble back home.

The recent disputes are as much over access to grazing land as politics.
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