Debrief: Best & Worst List

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We're back safely, we will post photos later today on those entries missing them and we will also post a Best and Worst list giving credit or discredit to each place for what they were good or not good at.

• Best Looking People - Belgraders
  
• Worst Looking People - Sofians
  
  
• Best National Cuisine - Sofia
  
• Worst National Cuisine - Budapest
  
  
• Best Dining Options - Belgrade
  
• Worst Dining Options - Bucharest
  
  
• Best Taxis - Sofia
  
• Worst Taxis - Budapest
  
  
• Best Sightseeing - Belgrade
  
• Worst Sightseeing - Bucharest
  
  
• Best Hotel Options - Budapest
  
• Worst Hotel Options - Bucharest
  
  
• Best Personalities - Belgraders
  
• Worst Personalities - Bucharestians
  
  
• Best Rail System - Vienna (we can't help it)
  
• Worst Rail System - Sofia
  
  
• Best Shopping - Belgrade
  
• Worst Shopping - Bucharest
  

And the winner is . . .

BELGRADE

And the loser is . . .

BUCHAREST

Where Next?

First, we will be in Paris for Christmas, with hopefully a hop on Eurostar and an (under)skip to London for a night with Axel and Laurie. .

As for the next big adventure, the list keeps getting longer, then shorter, longer then shorter . . . I had considered the hidden gems of the Caribbean which I went on a Google Earth discovery tour of recently and then discovered in the last issue of Conde Nast Traveller that an article had been written about same. As a common theme to our exploration of the Ottoman Empire through to the gates of Vienna, we thought an exploration of Moorish lands of Andalusia combined with a crossing through the straights of Gibraltar to Morocco would be interesting. Western and Sub-Saharan Africa has been thrown about as well but diseases and civil unrest make it slightly unpalatable.

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