How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?

[countstex@dice.camp]

@Pepijn never been inside the British houses, despite being from there, although London is a long waybfrom Liverpool.
I have however been inside the Danish ones with my language school during my 3 free years of Danish language courses.

[mrshark@mathstodon.xyz]

@Pepijn

I have been at 4-5, but in none. There have always been other things that have had higher prio when on vacation

[pepijn@mastodon.online]

@juliette Boooo!

[Guest]

@Pepijn I'm counting as "being inside it", rather than looking at it from the outside.

From North Wales, both the Senedd (Wales) and Palace of Westminster (UK) are a bugger to get too for me/school trips.

[pepijn@mastodon.online]

@onqueerstreet I'd say the northern-Irish, Welsh and Scottish ones count.

If anyone disagrees I'd be interested to know why.

[s1m0n4@ohai.social]

@Pepijn I don't think it's possible everywhere to visit national Parliaments. Unless a regular citizen is specifically invited for a hearing a lot of countries don't allow visitors due to security concerns.
Italy and France are amon those. When I lived in Berlin I was very surprised to learn that visitors could walk inside the Bundestag.

So I guess I will have to answer 0.

[joe@toot.works]

@Pepijn I remember being outside of the one the US, Nepal, and England but I don't think that I was ever inside of any of them.

[pepijn@mastodon.online]

@pettter Hell no!

[ross@hachyderm.io]

@Pepijn I’ve walked past the UK parliament often, but never gone inside. My son had a school trip there recently but it was just the students studying Politics who went (and were just an hour from London)

[bellinghman@wandering.shop]

@Pepijn Does this count former parliaments? If so, I'm counting the Þing in Iceland, at its original location of Þingvellir

[pepijn@mastodon.online]

@juliette If the courtyard of the Binnenhof counts I guess the public outside area of the Danish thingy also counts?

[pepijn@mastodon.online]

@bellinghman Isn't that basically a rocky field?

[ross@hachyderm.io]

@Pepijn and same son also visited some state buildings in Berlin on another school trip, so he’s doing a lot better than me and fits your expectation!

[2legged@mastodon.ie]

@Pepijn Answers to this are in large part a measure of wealth and the size of the country.

[jappel@wandering.shop]

@Pepijn I have, however, been in Independence Hall, former seat of the Continental Congress and where the US Constitution was written.

[bellinghman@wandering.shop]

@Pepijn Well, yes. I concede it's not the *current* location, and insisting on 'building' would rather exclude it. I'm also going to need guidance on whether touching a building counts, or whether you have to enter it

[jonnyt@mastodon.me.uk]

@Pepijn Westminster (work; tour of, got to see Magna Carta) and den Haag (tourism; wandering about publicly accessible bits).

I've been outside others (Senedd, Hungarian, Danish, etc) but not inside.

[snyperwolf@kind.social]

@Pepijn I have visited 0, but just to visit the US Congress building would mean traveling nearly 1000km, and I live relatively close to Washington DC

If I wanted to visit the capitals of the two nations that share a land border with the US, That adds another 4000km to the trip

North America is a terrifying large place

[rhempel@cosocial.ca]

@Pepijn Unfortunately we are at a point where more people would go out of their way and line up to see the interior of the bookshop in Porto that appeared in a Harry Potter film than would visit a parliament building.

[jezhiggins@mastodon.me.uk]

@Pepijn About ten years ago, I was taken on a spontaneous backstage tour of Portcullis House and the Palace of Westminster by a friend who works in the Parliamentary Service. It was fascinating, but that place is falling apart...