 During vacation time, he was able to undertake trips to Berlin, Breslau, Venice, Paris and Rome, attend maneuvers in Belgium and Switzerland, and spend a month in Egypt during the winter of 1910–1911.After returning home in the summer of 1913, he was mobilized for the Second Balkan War.His infantry regiment did not cross the Danube into Bulgarian territory, but instead guarded the capital Bucharest from Tunari fort.