EAST EUROPE various travels between 2008 and 2010

I made several trips to Eastern Europe which I really liked, the countries were beautiful, traveling was easy and we didn't spend much, we saw beautiful cities, beautiful views, lots of art, museums, castles and ancient buildings, we ate good and the people were friendly, so the best. Living in Trieste for about 40 years I already knew Slovenia, among other things I was born in Koper which is the largest port in the country before moving with my family to Trieste at the age of five. As a teenager and later as a worker I spent about ten years taking my holidays in Istria, along the coast of Dalmatia and its islands up to the Albanian border, so I also knew Croatia and Montenegro. Then in 2007 a car trip from Milan passing through Cesena to participate in Grillo's Vaffa Day up to Trieste and then through all of Istria, Dalmatia, Dubrovnik and some unknown islands such as Korcula and Hvar with Mljet, Montenegro and all of coastal part of Albania to Igoumenitsa, Greece where I took the ferry to Ancona. I think in 2008 I took the beautiful trip to Romania with my daughter's mother. It was a plane + car trip crossing the whole country for 4,000 km which we found very beautiful and hospitable. The following year it was Bulgaria's turn, again by plane + car, but alone across the whole country, including the beautiful Black Sea coast. Then southern Poland with Krakow, Zakopane, Bielicka, Auschwitz, Warsaw and Wroclaw and I made a trip to Germany, Berlin which I didn't know. I returned to Poland again to Lodz and visited Gdansk, the Baltic coast and the three Baltic republics, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia with a stop in Helsinki, Finland. Immediately after Prague and the Czech Republic of which I also visited Brno, Cheski Krumlov and then from Prague I went by train to Dresden and Leipzig, two beautiful German cities of the former GDR. Returning to Prague I continued to Vienna by train and then Bratislava in Slovakia and crossed the whole country by bus and train to finish the journey in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia which I did not yet know. Then a car trip from Milan to Trieste and then through all of Istria, Dalmatia, Dubrovnik and some unknown islands such as Korcula and Hvar with Mljet, Montenegro and the entire coastal part of Albania up to Igoumenitsa, Greece where I took the ferry to Ancona. Then the countries of the former Yugoslavia that I didn't know: Serbia with Belgrade, Novi Sad and from there going down I arrived in Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, Mostar, Medjugore up to Dubrovnik, to pass again in Montenegro and go up from Bar up to Podgorica and Cetinje, arrive at the border with Kosovo and also visit this country, the capital Pristina, Pec and Prizren, then North Macedonia where I visited the capital Skopje, Lake Ohrid and the adjacent city and Bitola from where I entered Greece to visit Mount Athos , Halkidiki, Thessaloniki from where I returned by plane to Italy

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