tabibito-x's VirtualTourist Home Page

Here I will only provide short information on some destinations..and some of my favourite pics. For further information, please refer to my external website (see link above) or contact me. VT is a great resource, but maintaining my trilingual website on traveling, containing more than 1,000 html-files keeps me too busy to regularly improve my VT page. But I'll try to include something new here and then.

I was born just in time to get an idea of how socialism, not the theoretical, but the practical, works. Traveling at that time was fairly difficult and limited to a small number of countries, eg the Czech Republic, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary. My parents did the best of it and took me to many places. Just to complain a few years later about me being addicted to traveling. But they understand me well and right now it's almost like a contest - who's traveling more often?

After 1989, it suddenly became possible to travel virtually everywhere. Traveling was now only to be limited by financial resources (or better: the lack of it). Which is much better than being restricted by fierce border guards and automatic machine guns + barbed wire. And so I first tried to get around as much as possible in Europe. And I fell in love with Europe.
At that time I didn't really think about traveling to Japan for example. This changed after I'd met a group of very funny Japanese exchange students on the campus. And started to learn the language. Still I didn't forget about my beloved Europe, especially the Balkans and Eastern Europe.

Before 1990 Czech Rep., Slovakia, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary - an x-number of times
1991 France, Belgium
1992 Great Britain, Russia (one month)
1993 Denmark, Sweden
1994 Czech Republic
1995 Poland, Turkey, Bulgaria, Italy
1996 India, Japan, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, San Marino
1997 Japan, China, Italy, Austria, Czech Rep.
1998 Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Laos
1999 South Korea, Japan, Czech Rep., England
2000 Israel, Egypt, Jordan
2001 Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, Slovenia, Bosnia, Croatia, Hungary, Czech Rep., Montenegro
2002 Taiwan, Japan, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Poland
2003 Slovakia, Ukraine, Japan, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, Czech Rep.
2004 Japan, Romania, Moldova, Transdniestr, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus
2005 Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, Montenegro, Hongkong, Japan (actually I moved to Japan)