Least 3 Favourite Countries: Neil, my buddy from Glasgow, Scotland
Posted: December 25 2023 | Tagged: Top 3 Favourite Countries
Neil, my buddy from Glasgow has already written about his top 3 favourite countries for me. This time, at my request, he writes about his least favourite countries.
It is quite harsh but in a sense, I also understand where he is coming from. And travelling is not always a barrel of laughs. Any one who says otherwise is lying.
I also wrote a post detailing my own least favourite countries and what is not surprising, is that 2 of my 3 least favourites are in the top 3 for others. Favourites and least favourites are very much a personal thing. There is no right or wrong.
And I invite those who have already written about their own top 3 to write about their least favourite countries because if you have a top 3, it means you have given some thought as to where the countries you have visited rank and therefore you have a bottom 3.
If you are a traveller, blogger or both and have a top 3 and/or bottom 3 that you would like to share, and would like to be featured, just contact me.
It is quite harsh but in a sense, I also understand where he is coming from. And travelling is not always a barrel of laughs. Any one who says otherwise is lying.
I also wrote a post detailing my own least favourite countries and what is not surprising, is that 2 of my 3 least favourites are in the top 3 for others. Favourites and least favourites are very much a personal thing. There is no right or wrong.
And I invite those who have already written about their own top 3 to write about their least favourite countries because if you have a top 3, it means you have given some thought as to where the countries you have visited rank and therefore you have a bottom 3.
If you are a traveller, blogger or both and have a top 3 and/or bottom 3 that you would like to share, and would like to be featured, just contact me.
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Like Trevor, I love travelling and usually find something great everywhere I go. Occasionally though I've found myself in countries with no redeeming features whatsoever and which it's been a relief to get out of. Here are the three worst.
1. Ecuador:
A rotten, miserable place full of rotten, miserable people. Attempting to trek round a crater lake I had dogs set on me by the locals followed by a demand for money to call them off. Two young American girls had tagged along with me and they were panicking so I handed over 5 dollars. If I'd been alone there would have been two dead dogs and a badly beaten Ecuadorian.
When I was there the socialists were in charge. All the pubs in central Quito closed at 8pm, every night. One off licence was open until 10pm. That was your Saturday night.
Add to this foul weather, altitude sickness, bland food and relentlessly dishonest locals. Crossing into Peru was a joy.
When I was there the socialists were in charge. All the pubs in central Quito closed at 8pm, every night. One off licence was open until 10pm. That was your Saturday night.
Add to this foul weather, altitude sickness, bland food and relentlessly dishonest locals. Crossing into Peru was a joy.
2. Egypt:
Awful people. Awful food. Awful traffic. Awful noise. Awful pollution. Awful mess. Awful amount of humanity. Awful dishonesty.
Pyramids are amazing, just a shame they aren't somewhere else.
Pyramids are amazing, just a shame they aren't somewhere else.
3. Malawi:
The world's biggest aid recipient per capita by a mile. And every year it just keeps getting worse.
Population 1955 - 3 million
Population 2023 - 22 million.
We're paying them to breed! Everywhere you look, hordes of children. There are so many people there that they've cut down all the trees for firewood, fished out Lake Malawi and eaten all the wildlife. It's an environmental disaster. The people get so much aid they've given up farming and just live on handouts. Most of which they sell to Indian traders to get money for alcohol. And the West's solution to this? More aid!
If you are a fan of shiny, new, top-of-the-range white Land Cruisers with charity and NGO logos painted on the doors and sanctimonious, middle-class, Western arseholes inside, Malawi is for you
Population 1955 - 3 million
Population 2023 - 22 million.
We're paying them to breed! Everywhere you look, hordes of children. There are so many people there that they've cut down all the trees for firewood, fished out Lake Malawi and eaten all the wildlife. It's an environmental disaster. The people get so much aid they've given up farming and just live on handouts. Most of which they sell to Indian traders to get money for alcohol. And the West's solution to this? More aid!
If you are a fan of shiny, new, top-of-the-range white Land Cruisers with charity and NGO logos painted on the doors and sanctimonious, middle-class, Western arseholes inside, Malawi is for you
And don't forget, if you are a traveller, blogger or both and have a story to tell and would like to be featured on this series, just contact me.
Requirements are pretty straight forward. An intro with selfie photo and a shortish but detailed account of why your chosen 3 countries stand out and 1 or 2 photos per country preferably in landscape mode.
Requirements are pretty straight forward. An intro with selfie photo and a shortish but detailed account of why your chosen 3 countries stand out and 1 or 2 photos per country preferably in landscape mode.