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Who doesn't dream of Italy? Personal experience

Who doesn't dream of Italy?

Italy, a fairy-tale country! There is probably no one who does not dream of visiting places with more than two thousand years of history. Ancient Rome, the Colosseum, Venice – these words have…

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How friends bought a car in Moscow Personal experience

How friends bought a car in Moscow

This is how it happened. An acquaintance of mine, named Anton, went to Moscow a couple of years ago with a very noble goal – to buy a used car. In order not to be deceived by vicious and cunning…

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ONE-WAY TICKET (Part 1) Personal experience

ONE-WAY TICKET (Part 1)

They say that once, when a client ordered 'one ticket to Dublin', the agent asked back: 'Where the heck?' This was in those distant times when the children of the Land of Soviets almost never set…

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ONE-WAY TICKET (part 3) Personal experience

ONE-WAY TICKET (part 3)

Well, let's say our compatriots primarily expect to 'skim the cream' off your economic boom: money and a European passport. Obviously, we are coming to the most important question: how can Ireland be…

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ONE-WAY TICKET (part 2) Personal experience

ONE-WAY TICKET (part 2)

Despite their patriotism, our compatriots are forced to seek employment outside the country. Giving birth to children 'at their place of work,' they genuinely strive to instill the native language in…

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Surviving in a Foreign Country: Without Money Personal experience

Surviving in a Foreign Country: Without Money

Often, ignorance of foreign languages and misunderstanding of local customs lead to misunderstandings, the most unpleasant of which are financial. A similar story happened to me in East Africa, from…

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Surviving in a Foreign Country: Without Panic Personal experience

Surviving in a Foreign Country: Without Panic

We solved the problem of lack of money with outside help, but we clearly knew that if the plan failed, we needed to contact the embassy, whose functions include, among other things, providing…

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How I got a British driving licence Personal experience

How I got a British driving licence

To acquire a car in almost any part of the world, you don't need much time. A driving licence is a different matter. As Rockefeller asserts, you cannot get one outside your own country so easily.

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How I Learned Insurance in Paris

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris in your youth, then wherever you go later, it will remain with you until the end of your days, because Paris is a moveable feast." (From a letter by…

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Personal experience

Guide and Work in Tourism: European Quality and Freedom of Expression

Tourism manager Max Polyakov is ready to share personal experience of development in the field of excursion services. Want to know the secrets of a successful business in tourism?

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How students live in the Czech Republic

Prague is not only the capital of the Czech Republic, but also the main educational center of the country. Today, there are over 30 higher education institutions operating in the Czech capital, and…

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German records of a Ukrainian girl

At the world's most important Olympiad for those studying German as a foreign language, in the German city of Freiburg, Ukrainian Diana Panevska won. She has been studying German since first grade at…

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