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The airport we flew into turned out to be named after an unlucky aviator, and the main street in the business district bears the name of a bankrupt broker. As Voyage i otdykh writes, this is a city…
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This small country is increasingly appearing in international tourism news. Recently, for example, its main city became the host capital of the 2009 Asian Olympic Games. And a little earlier, at an…
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Subjective notes of an inspired sinner in purgatory.
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Over the past twenty years, China has taken its place among the world's most developed countries, writes Voyage and Leisure. The country is on the rise and has a huge foreign exchange reserve…
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Strange things started already at the airport. This was not yet mysticism, rather something like an insinuating but persistent interweaving of sleep into reality. First, the flight to Delhi was not…
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The Irish character is akin to their humor: cutting but gentle. Ireland. The provinces. A remote dirt road in the countryside. Foreigners lost in a rented car ask a local how to get to the capital…
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You can discover Ireland in different ways: surf the Internet, read a guidebook, or go on a week or two tour around this amazing Emerald Isle. But the best thing, of course, is to simply live there…
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Monaco, it turns out, is not only casinos and Formula-1 races. Here flowers grow on rooftops, and instead of an underground passage one has to use an elevator, writes "Put i Voditel".
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Marseille emerged sharply from behind the clouds and made passengers on the landing plane press their faces to the portholes - the view that opened from a great height was worth it. Even though it…
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Russian-speaking Jews in Israel do not eat. Nor do they nourish themselves. They have a meal. It is precisely in this way, with respect for the process and its components, that food consumption…
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When you come to Europe, you feel like you're at a resort - beautiful and cozy, where life flows calmly and unhurriedly. In America, you understand that this country was created to earn money and…
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The British can hardly be called a talkative nation. Rather the opposite — their reserve in self-expression is not without reason noted in textbooks (the Speakers' Corner in London's Hyde Park…