When returning from holiday, one starts to think of holidays

[fivemack]

By 'south of the Rio Grande', I mean 'into Mexico' rather than 'anywhere south of 31N' - I thought this was standard usage, but various of my friends in Cambridge interpreted it the other way.

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[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I'm not sure how many EU countries I've *technically* been to because some of them weren't in the EU at the time and/or some of them were places I went through by coach.

I have accidentally found myself in a number of different countries and surprised that I had crossed the border without noticing. But those tend to be edge cases - e.g. that time I technically went to Italy *over* the very snowy Alps or that time when I thought the prices of everything were extortionate in a little village I visited on a boat trip on Lake Lémanuntil until I discovered that it was in France not Switzerland, so the prices were therefore *French* Francs not Swiss ones. Not that Switzerland is in the EU, of course.

And my African exploits so far have been limited to Egypt - I've not been Sub-Saharan Africa, which is completely different.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Please try not to accidentally cross the border into Iran, or similar!

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed!

I did wonder about making a comment along the lines of "But that doesn't really count, at least not for countries that wouldn't lock me up as a spy or worse!".

Flying to Dubai took us over Iran/Iraq in such a way that I couldn't work out which side of the border we were flying over. At the time, I thought "Hmmm, if this plane were to need to make an emergency landing, which of these countries would actually be worse to end up in?" and I really couldn't decide!