Trastevere: Rome's Sun-Soaked Secret That Everyone Knows About
There are two types of Rome. There's the Rome of Instagram queues outside the Vatican and gladiator-costumed men adjusting their fake muscles by the Colosseum. And then there's the Rome of Trastevere
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Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, the most populous of the three Caucasian capitals with around two million inhabitants, has come a long way since the unlamented collapse of the U.S.S.R, and having…
Trastevere: Rome's Sun-Soaked Secret That Everyone Knows About
There are two types of Rome. There's the Rome of Instagram queues outside the Vatican and gladiator-costumed men adjusting their …
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true inspiration in art and science" - Albert Einstein
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Tomas Staniulis
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Rich
Great posting! Very helpful as am abuot to head to Gondar next week with a couple of friends and will be doing a simian mountain tour too!! Thanks!
Martin
Hi Stuart,
I'm planning on meeting up with a friend in Ethiopia in the middle of June. We're students and on a fairly tight budget but would like to do the Simiens. As always you start off looking at tours but pretty soon find them fairly overpriced.
I've read about a few people who have done trips like yours but your descripition was by far the most informative - thanks a lot for this.
I've also got a few questions regarding the logistics and som figures of costs when up in Gondar and Debark.
I'd be very happy if you had time for these! If so, its probably better to do it by email than in these comment fields. You have my email attatched to the comment.
Thanks a lot in advance!
Best regards,
Martin in Stockholm
Vikram
Ex-minister’s AND ADVISOR TO THE GOV OF BAKU assets scierintzudInvestigative committee freezes accounts of Mantelis and his best man; ND wants former PM Simitis to testifyA state committee set up to investigate money laundering yesterday called for the freezing of a Greek bank account belonging to Anastasios Mantelis, a former transport minister under the previous PASOK government who earlier this week admitted to accepting payments from the Greek branch of German electronics giant Siemens.The committee is to probe all the assets of the former minister, who on Thursday was banned from leaving the country and charged with “seeking to legalize revenues from criminal activity” after it emerged that some of the cash he received from Siemens Hellas between 1998 and 2000 had been spent on his son’s education.A cross-party financial committee is also seeking access to all the declaration of income statements (“pothen esches”) made by Mantelis during his political career.According to sources, the head of the anti-money-laundering committee, Stelios Grozos, has also frozen a Greek bank account in the name of Giorgos Tsougranis, Mantelis’s best man. It is thought that undetermined sums were transferred into this account from another account opened at a Swiss bank by Tsougranis under the code name “A Rocco.”Earlier this week, Mantelis testified that 200,000 German marks (around 100,000 euros) were deposited into Tsougranis’s Swiss account in November 1998 by Siemens Hellas. Documents related to the case suggest that cash deposited into the Swiss account had come from a slush fund used to pay off politicians and public officials to secure public contracts. Tsougranis is expected to be charged as an accomplice to money laundering over the next few days.In a related development, the main opposition New Democracy party called for Costas Simitis, who was premier when Mantelis was transport minister, to be summoned by the investigative committee. On Thursday, Simitis expressed “sadness and outrage” at Mantelis’s statement. Reacting to ND’s calls for Simitis to testify, government spokesman Giorgos Petalotis remarked, “Targeting specific individuals in order to create an impression can sometimes hinder the search to uncover the truth.”
Zahid THIS IS PALESTINE. NOT ISREAL
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re: Agadir, MoroccoOmar Morocco is realy a great country.... you are welcome... http://www.hotelboutghrar.com
re: Ait Benhaddou, MoroccoKeith Horechka Very useful and entertaining. Thank you.
re: Marrakesch, MoroccoKeith Horechka Excellent. Just what I needed to know. Thanks!
re: The High Atlas, MoroccoMatt Hammond Totally gay. You are a tight fisted complete fraud. Having said that, I thank you for sharing
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re: Agadir, MoroccoRich Great posting! Very helpful as am abuot to head to Gondar next week with a couple of friends and will be doing a simian mountain tour too!! Thanks!
re: Gondar/The Simien Mountains, EthiopiaLaura Annaert Thanks dot sharing the experience, we will head this destination within a couple of days. Bon voyage !
re: Kazbegi, GeorgiaKevin Wadsworth Sounds like an amazing trip, with great memories.
re: Kyrgyzstan - Taking the Lead in Central AsiaVikram Ex-minister’s AND ADVISOR TO THE GOV OF BAKU assets scierintzudInvestigative committee freezes accounts of Mantelis and his best man; ND wants former PM Simitis to testifyA state committee set up to investigate money laundering yesterday called for the freezing of a Greek bank account belonging to Anastasios Mantelis, a former transport minister under the previous PASOK government who earlier this week admitted to accepting payments from the Greek branch of German electronics giant Siemens.The committee is to probe all the assets of the former minister, who on Thursday was banned from leaving the country and charged with “seeking to legalize revenues from criminal activity” after it emerged that some of the cash he received from Siemens Hellas between 1998 and 2000 had been spent on his son’s education.A cross-party financial committee is also seeking access to all the declaration of income statements (“pothen esches”) made by Mantelis during his political career.According to sources, the head of the anti-money-laundering committee, Stelios Grozos, has also frozen a Greek bank account in the name of Giorgos Tsougranis, Mantelis’s best man. It is thought that undetermined sums were transferred into this account from another account opened at a Swiss bank by Tsougranis under the code name “A Rocco.”Earlier this week, Mantelis testified that 200,000 German marks (around 100,000 euros) were deposited into Tsougranis’s Swiss account in November 1998 by Siemens Hellas. Documents related to the case suggest that cash deposited into the Swiss account had come from a slush fund used to pay off politicians and public officials to secure public contracts. Tsougranis is expected to be charged as an accomplice to money laundering over the next few days.In a related development, the main opposition New Democracy party called for Costas Simitis, who was premier when Mantelis was transport minister, to be summoned by the investigative committee. On Thursday, Simitis expressed “sadness and outrage” at Mantelis’s statement. Reacting to ND’s calls for Simitis to testify, government spokesman Giorgos Petalotis remarked, “Targeting specific individuals in order to create an impression can sometimes hinder the search to uncover the truth.”
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