🇨🇭 Neutral city, neutral country. How peaceful you were, my dear Switzerland.

🇬🇷 Ohhh Athens, what a beautiful city you are. What a historic city you are. The Acropolis… I am speechless. I always wanted to see the Acropolis in Athens. Simply imagine that over 2,000 years ago, people were already designing and building architecture that would last for centuries with all their beauty. Economics of modern Greece, though, could do better. We saw a lot of homeless people, beggars, refugees, and unemployed youth.

*Did you know that Greece is considered to be the world’s first democracy? Dating way back to the 5th century B.C.

Ottoman Mosque 🕌

Oman is the pearl of Middle East. I loved this country and its people. They were so welcoming. Honestly, the best people I have ever met! One of my best experiences was when we got invited to visit the Bedouin’s tent in the middle of the desert. It was so hot and I hoped to get some cold water, but, the Bedouin followed Omani traditions and served us dates and blazingly hot coffee 🥵😄

*Did you know that Oman is the oldest independent state in the Arab world?🤔

Got invited to ring the bell at NASDAQ, right in the middle of Times Square in New York. The experience was surreal. Did you know that a 17-foot statue of Vladimir Lenin was removed from a rooftop in NYC’s East Village, where it stood for 20 years. The statue had been positioned to face Wall Street, the emblem of capitalism. 🤙

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