Although more than 55 million Brits travel to Europe each year, the majority of travellers hop on and off planes and trains with no idea about where they are going, ie: the exact location of their destination within Europe. Research commissioned by the UK’s leading accommodation website, LateRooms.com, showed that 63 per cent of British [...]
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Transdniestr (aka ‘Transdnistria’, aka ‘TransD’, aka ‘The Cuba of Europe’) has never been particularly fond of visitors. Indeed, if the Transdniestr border guards didn’t have a vested financial interest (bribes) in allowing visitors to pass, the area would probably be inaccessible to all but the most determined of souls. Transdniestr is a narrow strip of [...]
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Moldova has implemented reforms in three important areas such as property registration, contract implementation and taxation, stated the authors of the WB report “Doing Business 2008″, in a direct video conference with Chisinau on Friday. “Moldova is the 17th in terms of contract implementation, the procedures last 180 days which is very close to the [...]
Popularity: 38% [?]
Moldova or Moldavia as it is officially known in English is not the first stop on most people’s tourist itinerary. This small landlocked country of just over 4 million people is virtually unknown to the outside world. When I came to for a (never-to-be) business meeting in Chisinau (pronounced kishy-now) I wasn’t sure quite what [...]
Popularity: 44% [?]