My favorite country to visit

In twenty years, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did. Set sail, therefore, from a safe harbor. Discover, dream, explore! (Mark Twain)

The best thing a young man can afford is travel.

On trips, you meet new people, learn something new from them, make friends. You learn new languages ​​or improve the knowledge of already learned ones, and if necessary, you practice communication skills, when you communicate with "hands and feet".
On trips you get to know different cultures and customs and explore cultural differences. Traveling will change your view of the world and change your relationship with other people.
If you travel in your own organization, without the help of travel agencies, you will become independent and get to know yourself (how much and what you are capable of).
Most of our education comes from school (from the classroom or textbooks). We learn for years in geography classes about some distant countries, cultures, places, without experiencing them ourselves. It's like reading a book about how to peel an apple, but we'll only learn how to peel an apple when we try it ourselves.

And that's why it's best while we're still young, to get out of our safe harbor, to go out into the world, explore and learn.

To my great regret, in my youth I did not have the opportunity to travel outside the borders of my country. We had sanctions and were a closed country...
In my youth, I traveled as much as I could within the borders of the state and visited some important historical and natural sites (mountains, rivers, lakes, cities, monasteries).

It was only when I entered my fourth decade that the borders opened up for us.
Then there was a possibility and a great expanse to be explored.
Cities I read about.
Squares and parks whose pictures fascinated me.
The travelogues they recommended to me.

And I did my best.
I used every free moment to travel.
I visited the surrounding countries, stayed in some of the major European cities (with the fact that my list is still only partially checked off), and organized it all individually, without the help of travel agencies.
All the trips, along with visiting the countries and cities I saw, brought me joy and satisfaction.

And the trips we organized by car will remain as a jewel in our travel vault, with the strongest impression.
In this week's #weekendengagement for Your Favorites, I would choose the following topic:

Which, of the countries you have personally been to, (other than your own), is your favorite and why?

One of the few countries we traveled to by car is Italy.

The recommendation that drew me to go by car was the slogan I heard from a colleague, a passionate traveler: "Get lost on the roads of Tuscany".

The travel route was made, I prepared the car, packed the luggage and the trip could begin.

This will probably be one of the few posts on the given @galenkp topic that will have a lot photos, but how else could I show you why #Italy is my favorite, except with beautiful photos?
Not to offend Spaniards, Austrians, Slovenians, Croats, Germans, Bosnians, Czechs, Turks, Hungarians, Slovaks, Montenegrins, Bulgarians, Romanians, Dutch, Russians, Greeks, Macedonians, Albanians, Maltese, Cypriots, Tunisians...
I also visited their countries and cities, but in no city, in such a short time (how long it took to wander the roads of Tuscany - 4 days), I could not see so many different beauties as in Italy.

That one trip, which lasted only 4 days, remained in my memory as the most beautiful so far.

So many beautiful old towns, squares, museums, facades, cathedrals, everywhere I turned...

From entering Italy, via Trieste, to Venice, Treviso, Sirmione, Bologna, Florence, Montecatini Terme, Lucca, Pisa, we reached the Mediterranean Sea and La Spezia and Cinque Terre.

Venice

Sirmione

Leaning Tower of Pisa

The view of Manarola,Cinque Terre

The towers of San Gimignano, the Piazza of Siena, the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The view of Manarola, Duomo di Florence and Piazza della Signoria and the famous Ponte Vecchio bridge in Florence, Scala theater in Milan, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II and Duomo di Milano are just the most important of the hundreds of beauties we saw in those 4 days
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The towers of San Gimignano

Piazza of Siena

Duomo di Siena

Duomo di Florence

Pallaco di Vecchio

Ponte Vecchio

Scala theater in Milan

Duomo di Milano

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II

The world is like a book, and those who do not travel read only the first page. (Saint Augustine)

I decided to read as many pages of that book as possible...

The world is an amazing place, discover it!

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Thank you for stopping by my post and I hope you enjoyed the photos and the story I shared with you

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All photos are my property, taken with a mobile phone

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