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Reading about Ecuadors horrible covid-19 experience got me thinking, is there anywhere you've been to more than once without actually seeing the place?

Guayaquil, which appears to be at the centre of the outbreak there is a place I've been to at least 4 times without actually venturing out of the bus station. Between travelling in S. America and living in Peru on the tourist visa (border hop) I had to travel there as that's as far as a Peruvian bus will go into Ecuador but never had the desire to actually see the city. Maybe should have.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-52324218

@trev33 said
Reading about Ecuadors horrible covid-19 experience got me thinking, is there anywhere you've been to more than once without actually seeing the place?

Guayaquil, which appears to be at the centre of the outbreak there is a place I've been to at least 4 times without actually venturing out of the bus station. Between travelling in S. America and living in Peru on the touris ...[text shortened]... actually see the city. Maybe should have.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-52324218

flew thru paris twice, never left the airport
spent a week in philidelphia, at the navy barracks, never checked out the city

when i think back, maybe that was a good thingie

London, Heathrow, last month. I tried to stay. I really did.

I’ll be back.

I have three (THREE) guide books for Istanbul. And they're the same book. But I haven't visited Istanbul. I've been to the airport twice but not managed to venture out. Not yet!

London worked there 50/60 times neve got a chance to take in the sightes.

Shannon Airport, Ireland several times. Never ventured outside.
It'll happen, someday.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Had a change of flights no time for a visit

I was in an airport transit lounge along the Persian Gulf somewhere for 2-3 hours at some point in the 1990s and I probably could not work out which country it was ~ or even what month it might have been ~ even if I really wanted to. If I were a character in a police procedural TV series, it's the kind of thing that the plot would rely upon us being rather easily, and in a somewhat unlikely fashion, able to figure out which airport it was and remember things very clearly, even though it was 20-30 years ago. Just saying.

London and Paris, not nearly a kiss.

several US cities too, Atlanta, Kansas City etc. Back in the day, nonstop flights were rare

@neilarini said
I have three (THREE) guide books for Istanbul. And they're the same book. But I haven't visited Istanbul. I've been to the airport twice but not managed to venture out. Not yet!

@trev33 said
Are the guide books just for Istanbul or all of turkey?