Countries

A running list of the places outside the US where I’ve spent at least one night — grouped by country, then city. “Slept a night” means an overnight on land (hotel, guesthouse, Airbnb, or someone’s home). Cruise port-of-call stops, where the night was actually spent aboard the ship, are not counted here — those live over in the cruise journal.

11 countries · 39 cities and counting.

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Switzerland

• Appenzell — Adler Hotel (2025)
• Basel — Hotel Märthof, 3 nights (2023)
• Bettmeralp — Hotel Waldhaus (2024)
• Brig — Hotel de Londres (2024)
• Geneva (Carouge) — ibis Styles Genève Carouge (2019; again 2023)
• Interlaken — Hotel Lötschberg (2019)
• Lucerne — Hotel Drei Könige, 1 night (2023)
• Thun — Hotel Krone Thun (2024)
• Wengen — Hotel Alpenrose (2023); Hotel Alpenruhe (2024); Hotel Bären (2025)
• Zermatt — Hotel Tannenhof (2024); Hotel Albatros (2025)
• Zurich — Hotel City Zürich (2024)

France

• Chamonix — Big Sky Hotel & Spa Chamonix, then Heliopic Hotel (2019; Chamonix is in France, near the Swiss border)
• Saint-Nazaire — 6-week stay building the Celebrity Millennium cruise ship

Iceland

• Húsafell — Húsafell Cottage, Airbnb (2023)
• Laugarvatn area — Birna’s Cottage, Airbnb (2023)
• Reykjavik — Old Reykjavik Charm apartment (two different visits)
• Steinar / South Coast — Airbnb (Sept 2024)

Japan

• Kamakura — Hotel Metropolitan Kamakura, 3 nights (2024)
• Kyoto — Hotel Granvia Kyoto, 2 nights (2024)
• Tokyo (Asakusa) — Asakusa View Hotel Annex Rokku, ~4 nights (2024)

Norway

• Balestrand — Kviknes Hotel (2025)
• Bergen — Hotel Park (2025)
• Oslo — Clarion Hotel Oslo (2025)
• Voss — Scandic Voss (2025)

Denmark

• Copenhagen — Copenhagen Strand (2025)

Germany

• Freiburg im Breisgau — Courtyard Freiburg, 3 nights (2023)
• Füssen — Best Western Plus Hotel Füssen (2025) — wouldn’t recommend
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen — Hyperion Hotel Garmisch-Partenkirchen (2025)
• Munich — Mercure Hotel München Altstadt, then Hilton Munich Airport (2025)

Italy

• Mestre — 6-week stay (mainland Venice) building the Disney Wonder cruise ship
• Rome — Hotel Campo de’ Fiori, 3 nights (2026)
• Venice — Aqua Palace, 3 nights (2023)

United Arab Emirates

• Dubai — overnight extended layover, Airbnb (Jan 2019, en route to India)

India

• Bengaluru (Bangalore) — The Oberoi (1 visit), The Leela Palace (2 visits)

Canada

• Halifax — Halifax Marriott Harbourfront; The Westin Nova Scotian
• Montreal — Downtown Montreal (don’t recall the hotel)
• Toronto — ~8 visits; The Fairmont Royal York (1 visit), Yonge & Eglinton area (the rest, with my now-wife)
• Vancouver — Pan Pacific Vancouver, one night before an Alaska cruise
• Whistler — 2 visits; a hostel on Alta Lake, then Pan Pacific Whistler Village Centre