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Bucharest is the capital of Romania and an ancient city, located on the banks of a tributary to the great Danube, the Dâmbovita River. This attractive city has many restored neoclassical buildings and wide leafy boulevards and there are some wonderful parks and gardens including Cismigiu Gardens and Herastrau Park. Bucharest also has three natural lakes (Floreasca, Tei and Colentina), which are surrounded by excellent recreational facilities.

The Cismigiu Gardens in Bucharest

Bucharest has had a rich and varied history, and there is a wealth of diverse architecture on offer, from to Byzantine chapels right through to dreary communist grey apartment blocks, which were regrettably built over the top of some of Bucharest’s medieval architectural treasures. Fortunately a few buildings from the Middle Ages have survived including the ruins of the Curtea Veche (the Old Court of the King or the Old Princely Court), which was built as a domestic residence for the monarchs during Vlad III Dracula’s rule in the 15th Century.

Swine Flu originated in Mexico, and the first cases were reported worldwide in April 2009. The World Health Organisations acted quickly to assess the risks that this virulent strain of influenza represented, and although the virus outbreak has now been officially labelled ‘pandemic’ (affecting other countries around the world), there have been a low percentage of cases reported worldwide, and no fatalities as yet outside of Mexico.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) have advised against all non-essential business and leisure travel, and people leaving the country are scanned at the airport for obvious flu like symptoms, although of course many passengers could be carrying the virus without displaying any symptoms at all. WHO are not restricting travel completely to and from Mexico and other affected countries, as this has been shown to have no affect on containing influenza type viruses.

Well,dear friend, Carretera Austral is a remoted exotic  place. It lies in the southern hemisphere and if you insist I am going to be more specific: it is in the Chilean Patagonia. It is build to a high altitude, in the Andes, and offers some unique landscapes.

The map of carretera austral, one of the world's toughest highways

Carretera Austral is 1200 km long, and mostly unpaved still today, 30 years after the beginning of its construction by the former Chilean dictator Pinochet. To make yourself an idea about the dimensions of this stone desert imagine one simple thing: Carretera Austral facilitates civilization access for 100 000 people! Maybe this makes it finally provocative to you!

Breathtaking landscapes in the Queulat National Park, on the Carretera Austral

Buenos Aires querido is the title of a famous tango created by Gardel, the father of this dance. This title also means My dear Buenos Aires, as translated from Spanish. It could also be the state of mind for the most visitors of this fantastic city of Buenos Aires, one of the biggest and most beautiful worldwide.

Buenos aires waterfront is spectacular, as all the city

Visiting Buenos Aires and speaking to portenos, which are very kind, is for many people  a lovely experience. They feel like being or coming back home. Many of the visitors start Tango courses, but I am warning you: Tango is a real addiction, and you will wish yourself to come back again and again. But even  the people which are not hit by the Tango addiction come back here, and mostly settle here. Most of the Buenos Aires expats come from New York, and they seem to have found their vocation and home. They live very good at high standards, as Buenos Aires is still an affording metropolis, or megacity, as you prefer.

Maybe you are a single on travel, wishing to make the vacation unforgettable. Maybe you are involved in a relationship and need something special. Maybe you are a longtime traveler used to fly from flower to flower, just like a butterfly.

Mallorca beaches are a major target for singles, and a favorable place for starting the vacation flirt

Whatever you are, you need an appropriate place which could facilitate that something special happen. I am not a guru in the matter, everyone has his, or her own story. No one couldn’t define love. Most probably, the vacation love stories begin on the beach or in a hostel party. From this point of vue, the best destinations could be Mallorca and Phuket. Further, you can apply the prescriptions from hostel sex!

Another situation is the honeymoon. There some places to visit for honeymooners, places where happened notorious love stories, or where some prominent couple met or lived. I have some favorite places to propose to you.

Well, dear friends, you are not greenhorns anymore. Of course, you still don’t master the charming Cockney accent, but are not a foreigner visitor in the happy city of London. And if happens that you read some English books in the pre Internet era, there were sure some books about London.

Westminster Abbey is a landmark of London

I think that no other mega city was so much sung and spelled like London! Oliver Twist, Sherlock Holmes, British Queens and Kings and much many others pale when comparing them to London. As London is for sure much better painted in all those books!

London for book lovers, this is the event I am proposing to you first! Use the guided tours, or simply take a map and try to discover the magic of London as it breaths in many notorious books. If you wanna get something from Charles Dickens‘ naturalism and discover the traces of  Oliver Twist, visit the poor neighborhoods of London. Or walk along The Tower Bridge over the Thames to get a flair of  “Our Mutual friend”, also a Dickens masterpiece.

If you are planning a budget holiday to Amsterdam, then there is plenty of low cost accommodation on offer, and to make sure you choose a hotel that combines cost with quality, here are the top ten best cheap hotels in Amsterdam:

1. NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky – Dam 9, 1012 JS

Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky

This is one of Amsterdam’s landmark hotels, and occupies an impressive spot in the heart of the city just across from the Palace and Dam Square. Because of the sheer size of the hotel, with over 400 rooms as well as suites, conference facilities and restaurants, you can get some great deals on your accommodation, especially in off peak seasons, with classy, elegant rooms are available from just €25. The NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky has a first class reputation for service, and there are a variety of excellent places to dine including the Shilbli restaurant, which serves delicious oriental cuisine, and the a-la-carte restaurant Reflet, which serves tasty and sophisticated French cuisine.

Paris is one of the greatest cities in the world, where history, culture, art and business collide to create a fascinating and beautiful place that visitors return to year after year. Paris is also known as the ‘city of lovers’, and this is partly because of the many romantic restaurants, parks, coffee houses and hotels, and partly because of the special Parisian ambience, which is both relaxed and laid back, and also full of glamour and joy de vivre.

Eiffel Tower in Paris is still the city highest bulding