Archive for August, 2010
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Stealing from hotels – habit for some tourists
I cannot understand stealing. Any type of it. And here I am listening to the TV and reading some articles on the Internet on tourists stealing from hotel rooms... And maybe it’s one thing to take a soap and something different to take all kinds
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Scarisoara – an ice cave and the oldest glacier in the world
Summer and cold? Heaven for me (someone living in the heat of Bucharest during summer). We’ve spent one of the first days of our vacation in the Apuseni Mountains (Western Carpathians) from this year visiting two caves: the one at Scarisoara and
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Study: 77 percent of Americans stay connected during travel
I woke up this morning and at some point I opened the computer. I started reading the news - and although I didn’t plan to write something today I found a study showing that 77 percent of Americans stay connected during travel - by phone, social me
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Photo of the week: Flower-Man in Barcelona, Spain
A dear friend of mine traveled this summer in Italy and Spain. Of course she showed me her photos - and one was absolutely unexpected. I call it “Flower Man” and it’s done in Barcelona, Spain. Enjoy!
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The Turda Saline – a great place to visit in Romania for pleasure, fun and health
Located at 30 km from the city of Cluj, along DN1 (national road 1), Turda is a town famous in history for its salt mine. The first documented proof of salt extraction in Turda dates from 1271. Between 2008-2010 the salt mine in Turda was renovate
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Top 10 experiences
Many people asked me which is the nicest, best, more interesting place I have ever been. It is tough to make such a ranking… Probably, the nicest for me is Bali which I feel is the closest place on Earth which suggests me how the heaven looks like.
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The beautiful and dear Aiud
Aiud is a city located in Transylvania which has an interesting story related to medieval and contemporary times. Here you can find many historical buildings, museums and churches. It is a small city, having a not very attractive train station or
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Photo of the week: Saint Elijah Monastery (Manastirea Sfantul Ilie)
In this year's vacation we saw an interesting, rather new, monastery in the Western Carpathians, in the Albac village: The Monastery of St. Elijah/Elias (in Romanian Manastirea Sfantul Ilie). Today a photo of the entrance in this monastery. Enjoy!
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Top 50 weirdest buildings from around the world
To look like others, or to look different? This is a dilemma and designers and architects often imagine different (and sometimes strange) buildings. Some construction developers actually choose to put those ideas into reality. Is the usual environ
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Strange law in England: a pregnant woman can pee in a Policeman’s helmet
I watch “Top Gear” - the show about cars but a show beyond cars I’d say. In an episode I recently saw Clarkson mentioned a puzzling law: a pregnant woman can legally upon request pee in a Policeman's helmet. Now, I was not pregnant but I kn
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