Archive for October, 2010
I think this is not the first time when I write about Jamaica as a possible tourist destination, but this hot island in the Caribbean just seems too good to be true. Although places that are not too easy to get too tend to receive, despite their potential, a relatively small number o tourists, this [...]
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Galway might be one of the biggest cities in the ever cheerful Ireland, but when compared to other European cities, which are 10 times bigger Galway seems to be a touristic El Dorado. Galway doesn’t lack the history, not the landscape, nor the thrill, which is why the city receives no less than 2 million [...]
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This year’s biggest air travel news comes form an unexpected direction. It concerns Air operator Kenya Airlines, who decided to extend operations to Australia, following an agreement with Qantas. Thus, Kenyans can to the home of the Emu and koala in a one stop flight. According to breakingnews.com, the flight form Nairobi (Kenya’s capital city) [...]
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Aleppo is considered by many as the most cosmopolitan city in the Middle East. And we can only consider it as a common sense assumption: during its millennial history, Aleppo has had constant commercial connections with both Europe and the rest of Asia. Which, of course, resulted in a splendid mix of architectural styles, which [...]
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Musical Washington
Most Americans and not only would usually think of Washington DC as a symbol of national pride, a place with free museums where the President lives. But many tent to neglect Washington’s internationalism, which can be hard to understand sometimes, considering that the place has several embassies per square mile. And since it’s an embassy’s [...]
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Now that I mentioned Hanoi I feel like I have opened Pandora’s Box and thus started a new series of articles on Asia. And since the small country of Laos (officially, the Lao People’s Republic) is far less visited than Vietnam or Thailand, I thought I should start form here. In case you are a [...]
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1000 years of Hanoi
Whenever I hear the name Hanoi, I often think about something really exotic and mysterious. Even though many people around the world (or at least, those raised in the Hollywood movies tradition) see Vietnam as a jungle ravished by the war, let us not forget that almost half a century has passed since the US-Vietnamese [...]
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Say ‘pod’, from ‘pod hotel
I-pod, pod-cast …everything pod. Wander what’s next? Well, the answer to this is very simple: a pod hotel. And it is not even new, as pos hotels are spreading around the world like bed bugs (sorry, I couldn’t help it:))…Well, my comparison can be a little exaggerated, but it is equally true that you wouldn’t [...]
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