Friendly Friday tourism

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Written by Manja Maksimovič

I will cheat a little and repost a bunch of photos that I have posted this year on various Friendly Fridays already. The reasons are that I’m still travelling and that this blog is coming to an end.

As all good things, this blog is about to burst at the height of its glory (heh) and will retire soon. By next Friday I hope to have a new blog. In the meantime, here are some of my thoughts on tourism and overtourism, since this is the theme that Snow Melts Somewhere called for this week.

Overtourism is a bit like overpopulation: you (and everybody else) don’t quite believe that it’s you who are excessive, over the limit, over the top.

“Can’t be me, I only have one child.” “I only travel to a conference twice a year and then stay there for a while. Well, a month.” “I only fly when I really have to, overseas. How often? Oh… once in the summer, once in the winter. Oh, and for holidays.”

The fact is that many (young) people not only travel to a place just to shake their ass on instagram – their biggest wish is to build the career on it.

For them, and for everybody else, here are some worthy ass-shaking places. Mass tourism is yet to hit Slovenia full on but recently its name is mentioned everywhere one looks. First ten photos are from there, and the rest from Italy where tourism is industry.

If you click on a photo to view them in the gallery, the captions won’t make much sense because they are left from the original posts.

  • The source of Kamniška Bistrica river near Kamnik.
  • The last mountain that saw me: Stol.
  • The sunset in Bernardin brings out all kinds of colours.
  • Night view from Piran.
  • Pastel Piran and Mr. Tartini presiding in his square.
  • Five from my city Ljubljana.
  • The Castle and the sperm. (Not a joke, ask the artist. Can you see it? 10 o’clock.)
  • Tivoli park in October.
  • How it goes.
  • Love by the river of Ljubljanica (CLICK).
  • Haven’t revisited the Vatican Museums yet. Impressive.
  • A hidden courtyard in Siena.
  • Nothing if not pretty: Grosseto.
  • A hop to the coast of Tuscany. Porto Ercole.
  • Ginger tea room in Trieste with splendid cakes and sunlit chairs.
  • Oktoberfest in the pub Porta gialla in rural Tuscany.
  • Pitigliano. I love such alleys the most that end in scenery.
  • Then I went to explore a new town alone with bestia. Doesn’t happen often. Gavorrano.
  • The view from there.
  • These snails know it. A recent photo. Can you feel the heat?
  • In Giardino dei Tarocchi with sister.
  • No quick info about this tower online. Near Torre Mozza.
  • I let poppies take some selfies (by placing the camera to the ground and they clicked.)
  • A villa in Tuscany with the pool.
  • Quite a cute swimming pool, actually.
  • Spring in Tuscany.
  • By the Orbetello lagoon.
  • Take me to the beach.

For Friendly Friday Photo Challenge hosted by The Snow Melts Somewhere

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