My favourite country I have been to is Azerbaijan (maybe because I haven't
visited so many of them ) where I visited a friend of mine Mushvig. I like it for the
people's hospitality, friendliness and patriotism – you woudln't believe
how local people love everything you can find in their country.
An exampl:
We went to the botanical garden in the capital Baku (so important that in the
middle of it there was even a national botanical university/institute!!!).
Well, if I go from my house in Ostrava to the bus stop through the alley,
I can see more nature there than in their botanical garden!! It was basically a
concrete pavement about 1km long with a two types of tree or bush on the sides!
The best way how to describe it: After the ten-minute walk and
Mushvig's happiness and pride through whole garden me and Mushvig went to the
open restaurant in the middle of the area. We sat down and he said astonished:
„Look, Eďa, there is an OAK behind you!!!!“
So if he was so excited about the oak, you can imagine how the rest of the
garden could look .
Anyway, Baku is lovely and people will love you. Although, being the
post-communist country so having the knowledge of Russian (otherwise they speak
something like Turkish), they assume that all foreigners must be Russian so that
everybody on the street will start talking to you in Russian. When I say
everybody, I mean everybody. Everybody there wants to speak to a foreigner.
I was even swimming in the sea when there were people around me trying to start
the conversation .
And my favourite city? Budapest. Can highly recommend .