Argentines - very, very friendly

A funny thing happened on the way to the forum…

Travelling through Argentina is a breeze, each day a new and invariably exciting city, each night the world’s most comfortable sleeper buses…What gets me is how incredibly nice and informal the locals can be.

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Global Online Community to Vote for Top 3 Winners

Fifteen groundbreaking projects from around the world are the finalists in the "Geotourism Challenge: Celebrating Places/Changing Lives" competition, a collaboration of National Geographic's Center for Sustainable Destinations and Ashoka's Changemakers. The online contest was created to discover and support entrepreneurs with innovative approaches to geotourism, defined as tourism that sustains or enhances the geographical character of a place — its environment, culture, aesthetics, heritage and the well-being of its residents.

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River Runners Adventure Dating is a new craze hitting the adventurous lovelorn in Colorado. Adventure Dating is a fun, unique and exciting way to make a love connection. They say that participating in adrenaline sports with your potential mate can often times strengthen the bond between one another, heightening a new perspective on someone you thought perhaps incompatible at first. Dunno about that, but at least it’s better than making awkward conversation over a latte. And even if the date is a bust, you’ll still get your heart pumping paddling through the whitewater rapids while enjoying breathtaking views of the Rockies.

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Chile’s public works minister, Sergio Bitar, has announced that they are considering building a 14-mile tunnel under the Andes.This tunnel would facilitate trade with Argentina by allowing trucks as well as a train to cross between the nations.At 8,250 feet, the new tunnel would replace one at a higher altitude that during the winter is often blocked with snow.One Argentine-Brazilian consortium has estimated that the project will cost around 2.3 billion U.S. dollars.While the Presidents of both nations are “interested” in the plan, it is still unknown when such a project might be finished, much less begun.

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As last year on the beginning of April, Ryanair ,the low cost airline, introduced the flights between Pula and London on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, while Croatia Airlines will provide flights to London once a week.

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It has been awhile since I have posted. Life and exams took over and
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Calm waters due to its southern exposure make Playa Carrizalillo a fine beach for swimming and snorkeling. The beach is accessed by a stone stairway of 180 steps.

The dark area of water is a shelf of coral extending out from the north shore of the bay, which means some really nice snorkeling among pretty fish and sometimes even dolphins can be seen.

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Córdoba is located near the geographical center of Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas mountains on the Suquía River, about 700 km west-northwest from Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Córdoba Province. It is the second industrial center of Argentina, but retains many of its historical buildings dating from the colonial era.

Inside Sarmiento Park is the City Zoological Garden which is situated in an area of 17 hectares.  
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Escape the rat race today. Book a late deal holiday and get that amazing feeling of doing something exciting and spontaneous. You can picture it now, one minute you’re thinking about taking a few days off work, and the next you’re jetting off to a Mediterranean beach resort, Caribbean Island or a snow capped mountain slope.

Late deal holidays are the perfect remedy for those everyday work blues. An unplanned last minute holiday can lift your mood, inspire your mind and make you feel re-vitalised.

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Fall in Rome, full of events. September starts with the “Notte Bianca ” on the 8th (the night when all shops, museums attrctions will be open all night long), with the reopening of the “Palazzo delle Esposizioni”. From the 5th of October the Palazzo will be open to the public  with an exhibition of Mark Rothko. In the museum will open also the new “Open Colonna” a restaurant for a maximum of 200 people settled in a

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