This thread is just massive gatekeeping 🤣
So many angry nerds people care mostly about food and shopping.
At least put Amsterdam on there😂
That pretty much sums up my time in Europe.
For a more accurate map, erase everything south of Rome, including Sicily, as well as Corsica and Sardinia. At the northern end of things, probably also Ireland and Scotland.
Then make four new tiny islands and name them Barcelona, Munich, Amsterdam and Prague.I also don’t get why it only includes NI and not Eire. Don’t most Americans go to Dublin, Cork, Galway, Waterford, Limerick?
Keep Tuscany, Rome, Milan, Naples and Venice and you are done for Italy.
Naples?
Or be Danish:
American: I have been to Denmark! I love Denmark.
Visits Copenhagen only 🤡
Especially offensive if you are a Jut like moi. You motherfuckers come here and think Copenhagen is Denmark, yet entirely ignore the rest of the country and especially Jutland where the vikings lived, Amleth’s grave is, where the king’s used to be crowned, the earliest Danish law that predates your frigging country by several centuries AND it is the place that Tolkien based Middle Earth and characters like Eowyn on. You could literally go visit the real Helms Deep, Isengard, Aros and Esgaroth and you could go visit the place of the legendary shieldmaiden Hervør who inspired Eowyn and in some ways Aragorn too.
But no no. cOpEnHaGen is Denmark. The one city in Denmark where no one speaks Danish, lol.
no no… I’ve been to Billund too! :)
Well, Legoland, but still.Which is a joke, I’ve never actually visited Copenhagen, but I did visit Århus, I loved the ARoS museum there, wish I had had more time to also visit Den Gamle By.
And I’ve visited Jesperhus in Nykobing Mors.Danish is too hard for me to consider going anywhere else
To be fair… most of those sights are piles of mud with sign posts.
For tourists I’d rather recommend the cold war museum, the original Lego land, the beaches on the west coast, hiking along the east coast fjords, the lakes at Silkeborg, the desert at Skagen, the ruins at Kalø, the various nature reserves.
There’s plenty of stuff to see. May, June and August are the best times to visit. The rest of the year has unpredictable weather.
That’s the hardest comeback I read for a while
American: I have been to Jutland! I love Jutland.
Visits Midtjylland only 🤡
Especially offensive if you are a Jut like moi. You motherfuckers come here and think Midtjylland is Denmark, yet entirely ignore the rest of Jutland and especially Vestjylland where the oldest viking town is, where Dronning Dagmar died, where witches were burned, where old fisheries and new energy tech stand side by side, where beautiful beaches are littered with crazy nazi bunkers, where you can go north and surf or go south and see the flattest fucking place in the world, walking across the Vadehav to a literal island at low tide.
But no no. mIdTjYlLaNd is Denmark. The one place in Jutland where no one speaks Jutlandic, lol.
Bro give me your best tips on where to go in this magical place. What to do, what to see.
That is if you’ll welcome me, an ignorant neighbour Swede who’s only ever been to Copenhagen also and thinks it’s Denmark.
EDIT: aw man https://old.reddit.com/r/tolkienfans/comments/xec987/tolkien_and_jutland_denmark/
There is the reason the Ferhman-Belt tunnel is being built. Perfect to avoid the Danish parts of Jutland. It even manages to avoid Vikings history for the most part. After all that bit was Slavic back then.
I’ll have you know I’ve been to Billund too!
I’ve never been to Denmark at all but now I’m totally sold. You should be in tourism.
East Europe: skeleton sitting on a chair at the bottom of the lake
Don’t want russia to shoot down your plane, or bomb the hotel you are staying at.
That is as likely as a cartel hit in New York because it’s so close to Mexico.
Actually, metros in Eastern Europe tend to be safer for tourists by statistics for some reason.
That’s like being scared in Chicago because something exploded in Washington.
Case in point.
Finland or Poland. None of the rest matters. No offense rest of Europe.
I’m sure that’s true for many people. When European tourists visit the US, however, how many are actually going deep into the interior of the US? Most tourists, I’d imagine, would be staying somewhat near one of the coasts and mainly sticking to the major cities. I doubt many Europeans have anywhere in Nebraska on their itineraries. Probably not a ton of European tourists in the US right now anyway, but I mean in the recent past at times of relative political normalcy.
It makes sense, though. Most people who are travelling don’t have the time or money to spend months seeing all the highlights of a place as large as Europe or the US. Even just these countries offer a ton to see, whether its the cities or the countryside. I can’t speak for how well-traveled Europeans are, but very few people in the US, even those who have lived long lives here, are able to say they’ve even visited every state, let alone seen the whole country. I bet that’s probably true of Europe for Europeans, too.
I myself don’t have much money for travelling, so I’ve only been to 11 states (and never even left the country), and I certainly did not see everything those states had to offer. Some states are often called “fly-over” states and, frankly, aren’t usually considered worthwhile places to visit anyway (even by Americans), so you can be forgiven for skipping those. I’m sure Europe has its equivalents, too.
But calling Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium etc. the equivalent of Nebraska is just wrong.
A lot of the big European metros are outside the 3 countries listed in the meme though.
seems like a pretty decent trip, just missing Seattle and the national parks
Also popular is renting a car in CA and then driving around there, to Vegas and some other national parks (a la Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and Utah’s).
Tbh I would hardly give a fuck for any large city after New York. I’d much rather travel through rural areas.
This was my first thought when I saw your meme lol. Only other major destination might be Chicago
What about some of the famous national parks. I’ve seen a lot of europeans at places like Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone
Orlando for Disney world
But fuck Florida on principle.
Orlando for
Disney worldGatorlandFTFY
As a European my lifelong dream is to visit Hot Springs, Arkansas.
The US is not a continent though. You can say, you went to Italy and France. No one expects you to specify the states and say “I went to Lazio, Tuscany, Lombardy and Rhône-Alpes”.
You need to read the replies. The Dutch in particular are apparently very annoyed that people do this and only visit Amsterdam or Copenhagen. There are quite a few others in here as well. People just looking for a reason to shit on others is all that’s happening in here.
I would like to interject, the Dutch aren’t Danish…Copenhagen is a city in Denmark…
Yeah, but in the same sense that when one says they’ve “travelled” the US, chances are they’ve only actually seen a small portion of the country, just like it’s a little dubious when US tourists claim to have “travelled” Europe and only actually seen a small portion of the continent. The contiguous US is only a little bigger than Europe, most US states rival European countries in terms of size, and many European countries have administrative regions (using whatever term they prefer) that are also roughly the size of many US state counties, so I feel it’s actually a pretty apt comparison all the way down. San Bernardino County, CA, for example, is about the size of Tuscany.
I’ve been to many small places around Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota etc (that middle part full of nothing), voluntarily. Trying to do a road trip “Supernatural style” (the TV show, with burgers but without the monsters). I really liked that but I wanted to see real normal America, not the bells and whistles TV front.
Not to be rude but your huge cities (mostly NY and LA) sucks as a European. It’s not even the lack of public transport, it’s just that they are way too huge. Paris, London, Madrid, Warsaw etc are big, but not THAT big.
My plan for the next trip was to do rural Texas, I wanted to see real rednecks with my own eyes.
But… That was before the fire nation attacked. Now I’m staying in Europe, plenty of things to see here.
how did you like the fourteenth strip mall? wasn’t it cool how everything, like the entire country’s culture, was like a giant shopping mall?
And pie.
I’m surprised your main gripe with places like LA or NY are that they’re too big and sprawling and not that they’re dirty and full of unseemly things like homelessness and drug use (though I feel those issues are blown out of proportion by the culture war and deserve actual help). That’s par for the course for many big cities, though.
I’d agree that most large cities have the same problem with travelling any large area in that you could live there for years and still not see everything. Any big city will have cool places to check out, but you’ll definitely get an authentic USA experience visiting places like the ones you’ve been: blue-collar workers enjoying a beer after their shift at the local dive bar; small town events and celebrations; regional gatherings like rodeos, etc.; tiny, greasy, 50-year-old eateries with the best burgers or BBQ around, etc. Simple living. It’s not all so romantic, though. There’s a fair amount of poverty in those parts of the country and substance-abuse is quite common in some parts, too. People tend to be very friendly, though, which isn’t always the case in larger cities.
Appalachia ought to be on your list for seeing rednecks as well. It has the same problems, but also many of the same kinds of draws. It also has a lot of natural beauty. Totally different kind of redneck. Another kind still, are the bayou rednecks.
Can’t blame you for wanting to stay away at this point, though.
I’m surprised your main gripe with places like LA or NY are that they’re too big and sprawling and not that they’re dirty and full of unseemly things like homelessness and drug use
Oh it is as well but I was trying to be somewhat positive.
I think my real main gripe with LA is the immense social fracture between rich and poor. You can see an homeless man with his feet turned black for not having shoes and right next to him a fucker trying to impress girls with his Lamborghini.
Getting to the country side to see normal life and normal people was exactly my goal, just getting to a bar in a small town and making friends because of my obvious French accent. I was there for the social part and the nature sighting (and it was very nice!)
I mean, those are the important parts ;)
I’ve not done any traveling myself I’ll admit, but I would have figured at least Germany Spain and Greece would have also made the list from how much I hear of people visiting them. Especially Greece.
Americans don’t consider Greece part of Europe. It’s part of history.
This is a nonsense statement 🤣
I don’t understand how people come up with these narratives.
White Egypt Syndrom
Just wait until you find out about the Ptolemaic kingdom
Spain for sure as well, but I guess the joke wouldn’t hit as hard if you tried to make it totally accurate
Ireland is missing from this picture. Americans love going to Ireland.
They’ve got a little bit of it in there.
I don’t get it
That those are the only counties Americans stereotypically visit.
Which isn’t close to true.
Ironically, the most unbelievably stereotypically-American tourist thing I’ve ever witnessed was while I was in Germany. We started chatting while renting bikes, and upon learning that I was Scottish she remarked that she was surprised I spoke English
She seemed lovely otherwise
I mean… I’ve met Glaswegians.
I studied in Glasgow and one of my absolute favourite memories of the place is hearing a South Asian looking guy talking on the phone in a language I didn’t understand or recognise… but I could still hear that he had a Glaswegian accent
That’s when you say, “Bless your heart.”
What I should’ve done is tell her that Scotland invented English and they stole it from us. Aberdonians actually still speak the dialect of Shakespeare, who was so successful because he was the first to popularise the language in England. The English spoke French ever since the Norman invasion, after all
Funny enough I’ve never been to any of those countries but have been to Croatia, Spain, and the Netherlands.
I’ve been to the UK and France but my favorite places I’ve been to in Europe were Portugal and Belgium
portugal is the business
I’d prefer Norway and Germany, if I could ever afford to go.
In this map Germany appears only briefly in October 😉
