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Sierra Leone
It seems there are only 4,455,105 countries in Western Africa and Sierra Leone is but one of them. But! It does have possibly the coolest name of them all, roughly translated by me it means Lion Mountain Range, if that is true, it's a kick arse name for a country! If it isn't, well, i filled in some space and perhaps partially hid my complete ignorance (d'oh). I shall pad it out a little more with a few generalisations; dark skinned people, french speaking and not particularly wealthy and horrible civil wars... If they are francophones, why the hell does it have a thththpanish name?
travel advice-discover if there really is a lion mountain range, get a photo and send it right here.
Singapore
I am a bit suspicious of singapore. Why did that teency little bit of the malay peninsula get to be a different country and particularly rich? Most likely the british did, they usually do... Anyway,thats where it is, a small island i think it is huge financial hub of asia, full of han chinese and pissed expat anglos and other gringos. It may well be very nice, but I don't find it that appealing, in fact it sounds positively BORING! all that anal retentive stuff about being chucked in jail for spitting chewing gum etc sounds crap to me. The brits promised it would be a bulward against the onrushing japanese with lots of big guns pointing out into the water in ww2, but the japanese cunningly avoided them and came overland, which apparently the brits handnt thought of, and they had that huge empire!!??
travel advice-go when the cars go vrrom vrroom blip blip at night, thatd be pretty cool
Slovakia
Ever heard of Czechoslovakia? well this is the bit that isnt called Czech. They stopped hanging out a decade or so ago in a quite amicable split. Which was nice. Slovakia is just south of the tatra mountains in poland and north of hungary and rather close to ukraine. I wombled around Kosice and it had a very pretty waitress who went off to be a babysitter in godlbessamerica, some gold in a box, a pretty fountain and that was about it. Interestingly it seems if you sit in restaurants and bars long enough, good looking women in rather snug clothing come and give you free cigarettes... On an ill fated trip i tried to get to see some of castle only to miss the bus and was hassled by 2 dodgy gypsy fuckers for kms as i tried to get back to the station.
travel advice-if you go to kosice, book your accom in advance, as no bastard spoke english almost anywhere, especially not in the student accom for doctors where i tried to stay... phew
Slovenia
Slovenia is only little and is the meeting point between western europe and slavlandia. This has caused an awful lot of grief over the years with racists going bonkers. It borders italy, near Trieste and was a part of Yugoslavia until blah blah blah. In ww2 there was some big carnage and fighting about where the border would be with italy and there are plenty of big holes in the ground where facists and communists and partisans killed each other and turfed the bodies in, called Foibe. (And Erik said that book about Foibe was useless!). There are plenty of mountains and it is all very pretty, apparently.
travel advice-throw your hands in the air like you just dont care
Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands sounds like a good place visit, just off papua NEW guinea and all. Pacific Islands, not spoilt by an abundance of bunghole tourists (who would rather go to bali and inebriate, vomit, explode etc), luffly beaches and an interesting culture. Unfortunately there are these ongoing biffo shows about secession or bean derivative prices which means there is shooting, killing and a jolly bad show. Then again, there are quite a few of them so surely some would be alright... the capital is honiara and i have no idea how i know that.
travel advice-try not to get shot, it will bring bad karma on your sunny, smiley beach holiday
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