Afraid at first, then welcome, welcome, welcome
I have to admit that before I came to Syria, I was afraid of the place. All I knew about it was what I had read beneath newspaper headlines: Terrorist cells. Hezbollah. Car bombs. Unsanctioned nuclear power sites. Mysterious Israeli bombings in the middle the night. The attack on [...]

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SIX years ago, Dion Mavath, an Australian D.J., flew to Dubai to take up residency at an upstart local nightclub. Dubai, a fledgling metropolis, was still mostly known as an airport hub and a shipping port, and the local night-life scene, he quickly found, was nearly as sterile and undistinguished as the flat Middle Eastern [...]

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Opatija on the Istrian Peninsula in Croatia was a popular upscale holiday location in the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now the resort is seeing its fortunes rise again as Austrian’s flock to buy real estate along Croatia’s Adriatic coast.
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New online travel portal, www.Door2Tour.com, is offering customers the chance to take a virtual tour of their holiday destinations through Google Earth, allowing travellers to track tours and zoom in on specific attractions using detailed satellite views. With Door2Tour.com’s unique Google Earth ‘layer’, customers can select the terrain layer of mountains, take a 360-degree [...]

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Cruising the pirate scene.
With Captain Jack back on the silver screen, real-life 21st-century pirates operating off Somalia and elsewhere, and National Review preparing to set sail to Alaska, Americans aren’t crazy to wonder: Are cruise ships in any real danger of being attacked by pirates?
The short answer is “no.” And there are multiple reasons why.
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HONG KONG’s newest tourist attraction, a 25-minute cable-car ride over the rugged green hills of Lantau Island, says a lot about this former British colony. Ngong Ping 360 (www.np360.com.hk) demonstrates Hong Kong’s fascination with travel and technology; the skyrail’s hilltop terminus, an ersatz Chinese village, plays to local passions for eating, shopping and taking pictures. [...]

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As the capital of the country, Moscow is perhaps the most visited place in Russia. However, not all tourists and city guests may have enough time to visit all worth sightseeings and see all the interesting things that Moscow can offer. In this case, one must know what places of the many it is better [...]

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