November 20th, 2011 by TK
Politicians and the chattering classes love Stability. Equilibrium is good, unsteadiness is not.
They generally have a point. Not too much good comes out of heavy political unstableness. Unless it’s the overthrow of a bad regime or dictator, in which case it is not instability but ‘people power’.
But what is equilibrium? Many things are stable till [...]
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November 1st, 2011 by TK
Are you celebrating your holidays to Benidorm? Then you are in for a great time! Benidorm is a venue where parties, celebrations, and fiestas abound throughout the year. For starters, take part of these celebrations:
1. Calvalcade of the Three KingsThis celebration marks the official end of the Christmas season in Benidorm. Commemorated every 5th [...]
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October 20th, 2011 by TK
The first heavy working week after the summer holidays has produced a wealth of stories here in the western Balkans. Some are rather more serious than others, unless you live here, when they’re all very serious. Here is a roundup of some of them.
Outside of the old Yugoslav Fed Parliament building in the Serbian capital [...]
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October 5th, 2011 by TK
There are occasions when the US appears a very long way from western Europe. Their puzzled television coverage of the football World Cup plays like the work of Venusians. Their taste for cherry-flavoured alcohol-free drinks suggests collective derangement.
On a considerably more serious note, that nation’s continuing keenness for the death penalty certainly chills the [...]
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October 1st, 2011 by TK
Mystified? It’s really a little bit of a trick query. Geographically, the Balkan Promontory is thought of as Southeastern Europe – the landmass south of Austria and Hungary and east of Italy. It’s famous for craggy and remote mountains, spectacular shore and furiously partisan populations. The Adriatic is to the west, the Black Sea to [...]
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September 21st, 2011 by TK
An especially successful traveller season in Dubrovnik, Croatia – 5 star hotels show the best results!
Dubrovnik is a town of a unique political and cultural history. It is a home to several remarkably poets, painters, mathematicans, physicists and other scholarsand it is one of the most well-liked traveller destinations on the Adriatic-Sea coast.
1979 the historic [...]
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September 20th, 2011 by TK
Town of Dubrovnik every year attracts an increasing number of visitors, and if you look scrupulously, you can see why – stunning environment mixed with the old city is something irresistible, and leaves everybody breathless, announces Emyr Thomas.
The historic walled city of Dubrovnik is one of the most attractive and famous cities of the Mediterranean [...]
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September 19th, 2011 by TK
One of the most asked for destinations on the Croatian coast is the Makarska in central Dalmatia, with its clean sea, sun-bathed beaches and a long-standing traveller practice. Many visitors from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) visit the area, either for a weekend or full vacation.
An article published in the local paper Makarska Riviera, written by [...]
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September 9th, 2011 by TK
Foreign media regularly describe Croatia as a ‘naturist paradise ‘, it’s therefore not surprising that CNN named island of Rab top destination for nudists.Rab island in Croatia is declared the birth place of nudism. In the essay about the ten islands for every type of folks CNN named Rab a paradise for nudists, as the [...]
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August 27th, 2011 by TK
Like a phoenix Dubrovnik, the Athens of the Adriatic, has risen from virtual annihilation after Slobodan Milosovic’s Serbian armed forces devastated the city in 1991. Seventy % of the homes got damaged from the bombing. Even the traditional wall that surrounds the old city was battered by the tank shelling. Yet today Dubrovnik is a [...]
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