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Staycation: welcoming 'typical tourist' guiris in Mediterranean Spain
A calm, peaceful town is suddenly heaving with people. The streets are full of walking parasols, hammocks and beach mats, the tourists are practically naked, there are cars everywhere and the summer hit (Shakira, anyone?) sounds day and night. Summer's here - so are the foreigners
Optimistic ideas for a low-cost August
If your work or your wallet are forcing you to stay at home…congratulations! Seriously, congratulations. Let's be positive - you have spared yourself from traffic jams, excess baggage, queues for beach bars and air traffic controllers
beach, money, cinema, cities, vacation, museum, economical crisis
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Guide: the curiosity of Tel Aviv's dog, gay and religious beaches
A lowdown on the rules - or lack of - to alternately abide by at neighouring sections of the city's 14km stretch of coastline
beach, religion, men and women, dog, tourism, homosexuality, separation
Summer read: love in Europe
With quills in rucksacks, budding young authors scour the virgin soil of the old continent, penning their feelings as they go. A selection of the winning articles from the 2009 'Youthreporter' writing competition based in Germany, ‘In love with Europe’. From lovesick autistic children in Wales to interrail hedonism, get literary
Albania: polit-tourism between coves and concrete beach bunkers
At the confluence of the Adriatic and Ionean Seas lies Albania, Europe’s last undiscovered paradise is now looking to tourism to stimulate its economy and is hoping for a better image in the west after having joined Nato and put in an EU bid. 20 years after the fall of the dictatorship, Albania is developing into a hidden gem for independent travellers
beach, tirana, balkans, nato, tourism, dictature, sali berisha
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