 Madrid Madrid is the capital of Spain, and is located in the heart of the peninsula and right in the center of the Castillian plain 646 meters above sea level, has a population of over three million. A cosmopolitan city, a business center, headquarters for the Public Administration, Government, Spanish Parliament and the home of the Spanish Royal Family, Madrid also plays a major role in both the banking ... Date added: 04 October '08 |
 Basilique du Sacre Coeur Basilique du Sacre Coeur was built at the end of the 19th century at the top of the Montmartre hill in Paris. Its famous white pastry like architecture is dominating the city (look at the picture below of Montmartre and the Sacre-Coeur taken from the Pompidou center).
Basilique du Sacre Coeur is a holy place and a flagship of Catholic devotion to the Holy Virgin in Paris. It attracts many pilgr ... Date added: 23 December '07 |
 Mambo Jambo! Why to Choose Zanzibar? by Herminne Tonita -
Why to choose Zanzibar?
Because it sounds extremely exotic!! It is the island of spices, of stories about pirates and princesses and voodoo. Pemba, the twin island Zanzibar is known as the place for all the witchcraft in East Africa. Brrr! If you are the romantic type, Zanzibar can make you crazy even before setting foot there!! Because it has one of the best beaches in ... Date added: 24 June '07 |
 France Ultimate Travel Destination by Robbo Das -
You will certainly not be bored when you travel to France. Considered one of the most romantic countries in the world, France remains one of the ultimate travel destinations in the world, especially for people who love to go sightseeing.
There are a lot of places to travel to in France. One of which is the world-famous Louvre, which houses some of the most celebrated works of ... Date added: 23 December '07 |
 Visiting New York City by Stan Smith -
The audible rhythm of the city of New York sparks a curiosity within the visitor. A connection to its culture is desired. What people have influenced it? How has the city, in turn, inspired people? Upon answering these questions, the visitor desires to inquiry further.
Most visitors to the New York City area are quite acquainted with it already. After all, much has been revea ... Date added: 19 January '08 |
 Travel To Paris by Frank Johnson -
Not only is it the capital of France, Paris has accumulated a laundry list throughout history of self-proclaimed and well-worn titles that place Parisians in a class of their own. Paris is a haven for love and romance, the disputed epicenter of cutting-edge fashion, a global culinary capital, the motherland of fine arts and let us not forget the self-given accolade of an eli ... Date added: 23 December '07 |
 Travel to Romania by Herminne Tonita -
The first question that comes into out mind when we have to decide the country where we'd like to spend our holidays is: "Why should we go to…?" Well, why should you visit Romania? The straight answer is because "it is one of the most beautiful countries of Southeast Europe" or because "few regions offer a more dazzling display of cultural and artistic treasures, or it has ... Date added: 31 May '07 |
 There is No Place Like Home by Herminne Tonita -
Where ever you go and whatever you do with your life, whatever destiny or fate have prepared for you the only place you will never forget and where you will want to return is your home. Even if at the beginning you are so eager to change something in your life, to try to make things better, after a while you start missing your family, your friends and the stability or the p ... Date added: 10 June '07 |
 Luxembourg - a Town Named Desire by Herminne Tonita -
The moment you set foot in Luxemburg you understand that reality could be different. The big-small town welcomes you as a splendid European jewelry and your first impression as a fairy-tale like town doesn't change not even after you spend there a week, a month, your whole life. The streets have a well organized architecture, the crowded areas lack and each street looks lik ... Date added: 08 June '07 |
 A Holiday You Will Never Forget by Cristina Nuta -
When trying to choose a place where to spend their holidays many people who can afford to travel to foreign countries, generally think about Europe or Great Britain. But haven't they thought that there can also exist other posibilities much more interesting and worth to be taken into consideration?
So why not experience the taste of the Orient where big celebrities like G ... Date added: 02 February '07 |
 Money Spent by Governments on space travel would be better spent on Health Programmes and Educational Programmes on Earth by Monique Barb -
We are all aware of the third world. The third world contains countries in Africa, Asia and some countries in the Latin America. These countries are the poorest countries in the whole world. People are dying very day because of the lack of doctors and medicine. They do not feed properly, they have no clothes nor houses. The third world countries have the highest rates of birt ... Date added: 04 February '07 |
 Exploring The World by Cristina Nuta -
Science has learnt a great deal from polar expeditions. For instance, we now know a lot more about the effects polar expeditions have on a person’s mind and body.
In the early days, explorers often went mad. One cause of this madness was later discovered: when people aren’t used to living in extreme cold, their body uses a lot of energy to keep warm and this gets rid of ... Date added: 10 February '07 |
 Discover India by Cristina Nuta -
Do you feel curiosity in visiting India, which maybe one of the most unknown countries in the world? Here we can give you some characteristics of this country which can possibly convince you that it is worth exploring India.
For the beginning, India can be considered one of the most interesting countries in the world, with a mixed religion, as 83% of the Indians are Hindu ... Date added: 16 February '07 |
 Andalucia - The Land Of Light by Herminne Tonita -
The Spanish sun makes the beaches, the sea and nature glow in a special manner, which gave the place a name so meaningful: La Costa de la Luz( The Coast of Light).
The charming "Costa de la Luz" is the guarantee for a dream-like holidays and one of the jewelleries of the Spanish beaches. Here you can sun-bathe till October. The friendly, welcoming character of the inhabi ... Date added: 22 February '07 |
 Keep Dreaming and You Will Manage It by Herminne Tonita -
So far away, so many hours of flying; it's like a dream that will never become reality. Bora Bora is one of the places which you always think at but where you will never get. But the necessity to rest, to run away from the stress, from the town pressure and from daily problems make you dare and take the chance. Bora Bora is the perfect place; further than this it's simply i ... Date added: 26 February '07 |
 The Women Who Travel by Themselves by Herminne Tonita -
The phenomenon of the women who travel by themselves is not new, but the number of those who dared to take the chance was very small. Today, there are more and more adventurous personalities, who have become braver than the majority of men.
Starting with the 80s one could find in the famous travel leaflets, "Travel Guides" pieces of advice for women who travel alone. At ... Date added: 27 February '07 |
 Describe the most interesting person you met on one of your travels by Cristina Nuta -
It was the first time when I had to travel by train, alone to Bucharest. In fact, I only had to travel there to meet a friend. I was sure that I was going to have a long-boring trip as I was travelling alone. I bought myself some magazines to feel that time would pass easier.
The compartment I was given was almost empty. I was sharing it with a woman, who seemed to be ve ... Date added: 11 August '07 |
 What is Work and Travel Programme by Cristina Nuta -
In 2005, almost 5,500 Romanian students went to the USA with the Work and Travel programme. The next year, more than 7,000 Romanian students decided to leave for the United States, and in 2007 it is estimated that the number will reach 10,000 students. This programme was organized by the United States of America in 1940 and belongs to a governmental politics which wants to mo ... Date added: 23 April '07 |
 Egypt, Nile's Gift by Cristina Nuta -
It seems that in Europe we don't enjoy the same winters, with a lot of snow, with low temperatures and sport winter games which make our adrenaline become higher, as we used to in the past. And then, what can be more exciting than spending a mini-holiday at the seaside in the middle of winter? Egypt, 'Nile's gift' as Herodotus named it, is one of the options we could choose a ... Date added: 02 May '07 |
 Paris, the city of the king of Sun by Cristina Nuta -
If you come for the first time in Paris, then you should start your visit with the Beaubourg and Hale districts. From here one can easily manage to reach the most beautiful attractions of the capital of France. The Beaubourg district has become a very important tourist attraction after the Georges Pompidou centre was built in 1977. The building of the centre represents one o ... Date added: 02 May '07 |
 The First Americans by Herminne Tonita -
At daybreak, on the morning of Friday, August 3rd, 1492, an Italian adventurer named Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain to find a new way from Europe to Asia. His aim was to open up a shorter trade route between the two continents. In Asia he intended to load his three small ships with silks, spices and gold and sail back to Europe as a rich man.
Columbus first sai ... Date added: 04 May '07 |
 The Visitor by Cristina Nuta -
A cold feeling of shock gripped me as I stared at the splintered, shattered wood of my front door. The lock hung, twisted out of the shape, having been forced violently apart, and I felt my pulse quicken as I noticed that the door was ajar.
Scarcely breathing, I pushed it lightly with my fingertips and it swung open with the slightest groan. Inside, the house was deathly s ... Date added: 28 June '07 |
 Discover Barcelona by Cristina Nuta -
Barcelona is one of the most beautiful cities in Spain, situated in the southern coast of the peninsula, being a progressive, industrial, bourgeois and European city, but also traditional, popular, Mediterranean and of nice climate. Barcelona is the historical capital of the Catalan area and the second Spanish city after Madrid. Its seaport is one of the most important of the ... Date added: 28 June '07 |
 La Costa Brava-one of Spain's Jewels by Cristina Nuta -
La Costa Brava, with the geographical delimitations of the Mediterranean and the Pyrenees mountains, is the classical name, which corresponds to the beach of the Gerona province. The naturalness, the climate and the history seem to compete in the creation of an environment of an extraordinary attraction, which captivates all who visit the area. Its 214 kilometers of coast are ... Date added: 29 June '07 |
 The Rescue by Cristina Nuta -
Everything has been totally different that Sunday morning, when the two boys had set out on their walk up the cool, pine-scented mountainside near the village where they lived. Near the top, Peter and Michael had climbed onto a rock to admire the view of the valley far below them.
That was when the disaster had struck. On clambering down, Peter had tumbled awkwardly to th ... Date added: 19 July '07 |
 Are you a tourist or a traveller? by Cristina Nuta -
Less than forty years ago, tourism was encouraged as an unquestionable good. With the arrival of package holidays and charter flights, tourism could at last be enjoyed by the masses. Yet one day, it seems feasible that there will be no more tourists. There will be 'adventurers', 'fieldwork assistants', 'volunteers' and, of course, 'travellers'. But the term 'tourist' will be ... Date added: 30 July '07 |
 How much luggage do you usually carry? by Cristina Nuta -
I believe that one of my shortcomings is the fact that I always carry much luggage when I leave home, even if just for a couple of days. Therefore, no matter if I go to visit my grandparents for no more than two days, I always carry a lot of clothes with me. This bad habit I have, usually irritates my father, because he knows that I won't have time to wear all of them.
In ... Date added: 11 August '07 |
 What countries would you like to visit? by Cristina Nuta -
I have always liked to travel, both around my country and to foreign countries, too. I hate staying at home for one day, without going out even for an hour. Then, each time I have an invitation to a friend's summer house I don't think twice before accepting it. I am always eager to go to unknown places or to others I have been and I really liked. My mother says that this is b ... Date added: 13 August '07 |
 Magic Destinations by Herminne Tonita -
The places you only saw in the documentaries on Discovery Channel or National Geographic can now be visited whenever you feel like. Now there is a hotel near Stonehenge, Angkor Wat or Machu Pichu.
Stonehenge
An old legend says that a long time ago the devil brought the Stonehenge rocks on Salisbury Plains. And only the Devil knows the truth about them. Anyway, it hasn ... Date added: 06 September '07 |
 Walking Through Prague by Herminne Tonita -
Narrow streets, museums at every step on the way downtown, famous clothes brands, Swarovski crystals, coffee shops and fancy restaurants. Put on your favorite snickers and meet Prague.
So as to feel better the flavor of this capital it is advisable to meet it walking. From Wenceslav Plaza until you reach Prague Castle, which is situated in the opposite side of the town y ... Date added: 08 September '07 |
 Travel in the Middle Ages Britain by Monique Barb -
Travel in the Middle Ages was either on land or by water.
Rich people sometimes travelled in covered wagons. They must have been very uncomfortable as they did not have suspension and roads were bumpy and rutted. Others travelled on a box between two poles. Two horses, one in front and one behind carried it. They were trained to walk at the same pace.
On land the travel ... Date added: 31 July '08 |
