Favorite Countries: Turkey, South Korea, Portugal
Favorite Cities: Berlin, Sarajevo, Ljubljana, Istanbul, Amsterdam
Least Favorite City: Kiev
Countries we wish we’d visited: Myanmar, China, Cyprus (and everywhere else!)
Countries with the best food: Thailand, Turkey, South Korea
Countries with the worst food: Russia
Favorite Dish: Khao Soy (Northen Thailand), Burek (Sarajevo)
Cleanest Streets: Dubai
Dirtiest Streets: India
Cleanest Subway System: Dubai and Singapore
Dirtiest Subway System: NYC
Countries with the most expensive food: Finland
Best Supermarket: Stockmann
Best McDonalds Ice Cream Cone: Portugal
Easiest City to Bike in: Amsterdam
Hardest City to Bike in: Hoi Ann
City Most likely to get ripped off in: Bangkok
Country with the most 3-wheeled transportation: India
Country with the cheapest scooter rental: Malaysia ($5/day)
Country with the most expensive bicycle rental: Portugal ($17/day)
Country with the most salads on the menu: Bulgaria
Easiest Subway System: Lisbon
Most confusing Subway System: Tokyo
Country with the largest number of tour buses: Italy
Country that every American thinks is exotic, but is not to the rest of the world: Croatia
Best Iced Coffee: Laos
Worst Coffee: India
Best Tea: India
Country with the least amount of English spoken: Ukraine
Country with the best English: Holland
Best country to hike in: Slovenia
Country with the most diverse landscapes: Turkey
Closest resemblance to a castle: Regaleria (Sintra, Portugal)
Country with the worst wifi: New Zealand
Country with the worst value for accommodations: Australia
Country with the best value accommodations: Turkey
Best sand beaches: Koh Tao, Thailand
Best rock beaches: Antalya, Turkey
Best Beer: Dark Pilsner (Sarajevo, Bratislava, Prague)
Cheapest Country to get a massage: Thailand
Cheapest Country to get a manicure/pedicure: Vietnam
Cheapest Country to get a wax or shave: Turkey
Country that dubs all of their TV stations: Hungary
Country with the most English TV: Montenegro
Prettiest National Park: Croatia
Worst Country to be a vegetarian in: Bosnia or Serbia
Best Country to be a vegetarian: India
Country with the most street animals: India
Best street statues: Rome
Favorite street performers: Fire throwers
Country with the most tropical fruit: Vietnam
Country with the best fruit juices: Malaysia
Country with the most whitening cream on the shelves: Japan
Worst city to cross the street: Hanoi
Country with the cutest kids: Laos
Country with the most dust: Cambodia
Best Borscht: Poland
City with the most useless monuments/statues: Skopje Macedonia
Country with the most add-ons to your restaurant bill: Italy and Portugal
Country with the best tap water: Austria
Country with the most surprising Jewish history: Lithuania
Country with the most expensive laundry: Finland
Country with the worst style: Bulgaria
Country with the largest water bottle deposit refund: Germany
City with the most shwarma restaurants: Copenhagen
Country with the cheapest public transportation: Ukraine
Country with the most expensive public transportation: Japan
Country with the least helpful people: New Zealand


Don’t know if it my imagination, but there has been more recent pix of you guys kissing.
If so, good sign, you are not only not ready to kill each other after ‘backpack’ traveling for a year
(au contraie, you are smooching)….a great sign for the marriage!!!
Welcome back to the ‘world of the real’ (as Morphius said in The Matrix, when showing Neo the scorched future (which was present) cityscape). Glad to hear jobs are in place, not dropping a step!!
Good to have you ‘back.’