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PULA

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It is a small town in northern Croatia that has kept the remains of Roman architecture and flavor of the Adriatic Sea . To get there you need to have only about 200 euros for the flight ticket and still 100 for the accommodation in any hostel . Me and my fellow trainees, we all have stayed at PULA Art Hostel with 15 euro per night . In general the prices are quite high , although one euro is worth seven Croatian Kuna . The restaurants are great and plentiful - one serving come from two people and cost between 40-60 kuna . You can eat all sorts of goodies : seafood , cevapcici ( traditional food ) , salads of all kinds and the finest meats . I ate a super goodicecream with 30 kuna , hihi . In Pula are at least 12 beaches , but the word 'beach' is somehow inappropriate , as there are rocks and stones everywhere ... .. but the water is clear, blue and cool . It ...

Brussels

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I was there for the second time in a train station in Brussels. It is s station like a huge shopping center - specifically international railway station. Outside it was raining and the cold wind entered in my bones already . I don't want to go out for the town tour with my trainees form Luxembourg. But when you're in a group, you need to respect the group's rules, isn't it? And it is still raining outside. And I did not have any umbrella. So I 'sheltered' next to someone with the umbrella. The first feeling I had was the 'I would not want to live here, but I'd like to revisit it and go for shopping' - that because prices are much lower than in Luxembourg. And yes, I got my leather gloves - two pairs from the centre of the city. I didn't bought chocolate though.... So I told to myself: 'don't worry, you will buy next time" .... For me 27 euro for a chocolate box it was a little bit too expensive, hahhaaha! When I'll be rich I can...

A Belgian village

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Ourthe 90 This village is situated at the Belgian border with Luxembourg. It is a small place, with big houses and an amazing view: green fields, blue sky and in the middle old thick trees. More then half of the villagers live in renting accommodation and also most of them work without contract or do not work. The salary are quite small – a 15 years experienced teacher earns 1200 euro monthly. That’s why they are a bit jealous on people from the village who work at the EU organization and earn more than 2500 euro per month. For the EU employees is more convenient to rent a house (with at least 3, 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, kitchen, etc.) in Ourthe , which is no more than 500 euro per month, and travel every day to Luxembourg where they work. Of course, to live in Luxembourg and rent a house, this will cost more than 1800 euro monthly. In Ourthe it is silence most of the time, you can listen to the rain more often than to the people voices J And because I have talked about ...

Allors, Merci beacoup pour votre generosite

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Chèr Monsieur, Comme stagiaire à la Commission européenne, je m'occupe de l'organisation d'une fête, appellée "Latin Party", qui aura lieu le 18/06. Dans le cadre de cette fête, je voudrais organiser aussi une tombola pour les participants. Toute aide de votre part, en produits ou services sera appréciée, en me chargeant de promouvoir votre compagnie à cet evenement et sur le site web: www.victoriabaltag.blogspot.com . Tout le profit est pour moi pour aller dans une excursion. N'hésitez pas de me contacter au numéro de téléphone: ........... et/ou à l'adresse de e-mail: ..... Merci d'avance. Bien à vous, Victoria Baltag

Three beautiful towns in Luxembourg

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Vianden, Remich, Luxembourg Last week I had a walk through these three so beautiful towns in Luxembourg. Shall I begin with the Capital? Yes of courseJ Well, the capital of the Grand Duch de Luxembourg – Luxembourg- is an amazing town indeed. To describe it is so so difficult, even the pictures are less beautiful than the reality. You need to come in here and see with your own eyes, trust me! I will show you some pictures from the Grund..but there are a lot of another cute places in Luxembourg. If you come, please don’t miss: The bridge (Viaduct), the Casemantes, the Fortress, the city's Old Town, The Grand Ducal Palace, etc. Don't forget to try those amazing cookies from Oberweis( http://www.oberweis.lu/ ) and those amazing chocolate from Schumacher ( http://www.schumacher.lu/ ). I love this town and I would love to build a family in here. In my opinion it is the perfect town for a family: parks, grass and trees everywhere, at school children learn 5 languages (because three ...

Faith and flame/ Credinţă şi foc/ Pakiv thaj iag

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Produced and directed by Victoria Baltag Adrian Furtuna is a 25 year old Roma man who lives and works in Bucharest. In the movie, Adrian tells the story of his life. In order to achieve what he has today, Adrian had to overcome many challenges. Like many Roma children, he was born in a poor family and did not have good perspectives for his life. However, he was fortunate that his mother was a wise and strong woman. She earned little money by selling canvas and clothes, but she had large ambitions for her son and was determined to help him. He attended the University of Iasi and became one of the best students in his class of Sociology. Therefore, in a way , Adrian’s success is a fulfillment of his mother’s dream. This shows that even though the woman is neglected in the Roma family, she has great power. In this case, the great influence of this power allowed her son to succeed. Everything that Adrian did in his life was inspired by his mother. She had a tremendous amount of faith in h...