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14-06-2013
Meeting friends in Vietman
Never sleeps from out of me , but I'm tired : Due to the exhaustion fog appear two more nocturnal manifestations of professional gaiety , tending to a Vietnamese copy of Ernie and Bert : The grin of the two young men at the hotel reception is so wide that I'm afraid they could at any moment unfold their heads. I - know - I - know I should not joke about the English of Vietnamese do ( which is , on the other hand , the Vietnamese quite delicious - and quite rightly - have fun when I try to imitate a syllable of their unspeakable language) but one of the receptionists is blessed with such a charming lisp that I can not resist and listen to the BBC.
No, the quiet American, I have not read yet , but I had Saigon somehow imagined differently ( the name alone ! Sorry, but so full of promise and romantic words it is impossible to exchange it for a HCMC - shortcut , even if they still fits so well into the BMW and ferry from holyhead to dublin with car). But how actually , so presented ? On one hand, such as Shanghai and gleaming skyscrapers with expensive bars in the top floors. On the other hand, an enchanted accumulation of colonial French architecture splendor. Nope : the latter is already gone ( working on the demolition of the remaining radicals Vincom and consorts with lubricating joyful tenacity ) , the former are not there yet :
A city between the chairs , filled with cheerful zeal and ferry harwich to hook of holland car. ( And if you for once would be here ready to learn something from Hanoi , the old one would not razed to the ground. ) A leather jacket ( fish ) on the plate : in striped tights, cropped jeans panties, close-cropped hair, a cigarette between his fingers and a glass of beer : On table next to my first punk girl that I am looking in every city , for four weeks hand on a
In a Saigon bar are two girls who work for freedom , flashy as colorful dogs , in Berlin they would long ago a pathetic anachronism : this self- cutting the time axis shows vividly than any sociological analysis of how this country tradition and capitalist modernity to a strange symbiosis united : beyond the punk girl has the desire to use the ( west -defined ) that is simply skipped enlightened desire for freedom.
Despite billion trade deficit is imported hilarious i-phones worth a Milliare per year and ferry from dublin to liverpool with car, while the first-born sons for life remain in the parental home and see well-educated young women in the service of her husband and children their fulfillment. Modern companies can dictate the design of their business premises of soothsayers. Men and women in jeans and Nike T-shirts meet at night secretly on the field to dig up the bones of a dead three years ago, uncle to wash and beds in an urn as the (not directly legal) rite provides. I would characterize Vietnam with a set , I'd say : The land of mystifying resolution of contradictions.
More Egypt trips than previously planned say Duisburg, Hannover. Because the Foreign Office because of the unrest in the country further discourages travel to Egypt, the three operators cancel all travel until September 29. The company said that on Wednesday. So far were the periods for them until mid-September.
There are offer free reservation and cancel travel, whose departure date is between September 30th and October 31st. Many companies announced that the majority of vacationers the opportunity so far made use for the transfer. It prefers go in Greece, in Turkey or Spain.
All trips cancelled on Thursday also tourism until September 29. But new Ferry Liverpool Dublin without car trips are open. The organizers had announced some days ago, again offered trips in the bath region along the Red Sea from September 15. "The background was that we assumed, that the Foreign Office fits his warning," a spokesman said. "The location on the Red Sea was so calm."
The Ministry but retains his announcement: it still discourages travel to the land of the Nile. Therefore extends also the tourist with all six tour operator brands (ITS, Jahn Reisen, and Ferry Liverpool Belfast without car are here.
FTI offered all the time travel to Egypt - with the exception of Cairo and upper Egypt Nile cruise. Also the turnaround by the tourist does not change on the FTI line. "We do continue to travel", a spokesman said. Customers could rebook but free and cancel. This Regulation extended FTI recently until 31 October. But cancellations for trips to the Red Sea were excluded. They are free only until September 15.
The NCL has introduced a nationwide ban on smoking in the inside cabins. The balconies are admitted to the smoking area only. The new rules will apply from January 2012 and is applicable to all ships of Freestyle Cruising valid category. However, special rules apply to the balconies, so neither cigars or cigarillos or pipes must be smoked on the Ferry Pembroke Rosslare without car.
The ashtray has to pick up separately from the crew, however. The smoking ban has even been extended to many other areas of the ship. Thus, in addition to the common areas are the inner regions from henceforth smoking. The only exception is the casino and the existing on many ships Cigar Lounge, in the course cigars and pipes, etc. are allowed. In the outdoor area, outdoor decks provide extra marked areas that have been designed for smokers. Following the example of the NCL cruise line Carnival Cruise Lines has now been a change in smoking rules known.
From his hillside Zimbabwe's vital dictator makes to the cheerful colorful Robert Mugabe, for a long time no secret: to public appearances, such as about before his recently successfully enforced re-election, the 89 enters like poppy-patterned shirts and baseball caps.
In this respect it should not surprise anyone too much, that its Government is now planning an "African Disneyland": the area around the natural scenic Victoria falls in the West of the country to be upgraded so tourists still - one wool awaken a "sleeping giant" in this way, the Zimbabwean Minister of tourism suggests.
Zimbabwe is, together with the neighboring country Zambia, currently hosts of the General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations. This fact alone has provoked scathing criticism by human rights activists. Finally, not only the once thriving tourism on the ground, but also the one or the other opposition lies in the land,when they took a Frederikshavn Oslo Color Line trip.
The opposition speaks of a "stolen election", Robert Mugabe but can celebrate: after a controversial election victory of African leaders for the seventh time is been sworn of as 's President.
The latter little will change in the near future probably: only last week, the celebrated his re-election and will go next year on a Frederikshavn Gøteborg Color Line trip, which was according to various observers dubious way since 33 years ruling dictator in a stadium in front of 60,000 spectators. A constitutional amendment had limited the presidential term to two periods before for the first time, explicitly not retroactively but what applies, so Mugabe may be around will come only birthday to his 99th in the fix, on a meaningful life after the policy to have to worry.
"Irrevocably gone are the days of colonialism", called the former freedom fighters to the cheering Stadium and announced full of fresh fact urge immediately to promote the partial expropriation of foreign companies in Zimbabwe, as it has been designed for a long time, now reinforced. That is ultimately no more than a logical continuation of Mugabe's "Indigenisierungspolitik", which culminated in the year 2000 in the expropriation and expulsion of thousands of white farmers.
The economy of the country, which was once known as "Africa's breadbasket", henceforth went to the dogs, in a historically unique inflation phase, the zeros on price tags increased in the meantime so rapidly as bacteria in laboratory cultures. The tourists perhaps not mainly therefore stayed away Zimbabwe, because the natural beauty of the Victoria falls due to missing casinos, shopping malls, new ferry irlande cherbourg rosslare and roller coasters would released them somehow to nude.
Latter interpretation however is due to a Western-oriented views, and as tourism Minister announced his "vision" of a good 220 million euro amusement park at the UN event in his country all the more resolutely: planned is something "ultra-modern, which attracts young people",
Somehow does the formula that government and citizens renounce each other. Results are parallel universes in the complete absence of policy : Below individual self-preservation in the context of fairly peaceful anarchy above order to maintain power manage economic benefices. Both sides are happy when the others leave them alone. The man is from the political to the purely economical animal , and life looks at first sight as if everything is fine. The recognition is awful and reassuring : The merry tinkling political circus of the Western democracies like the USA is the engine room of mankind.
Questions: One: What is smoked from the large bamboo pipes by the roadside ? Two : What do they tell the speakers at the crossroads ? Three : What's the big silver , with " My Tan " or " Sonha " labeled tanks on the roofs ? Four : What is it with the crumbly , reddish rolls with holes that can be found anywhere on the roadside ?
Foreign women are called " Madame ," the men on the other hand , "Sir " As well , the American businessman displaces Monsieur , while the European femininity is still in the colonial era which I read on Ferry Cairnryan Belfast Boat.
At street trees small cages hanging : songbirds in isolation. Even dogs and cats are kept in cages , which are barely larger than themselves in the botanical garden , a pair of peacocks in an aviary , which is backed with several layers of fence like a prison than it was at peacocks to psychotic mass murderer. When I hear birds chirping in the trees of the park, I put the head back and expect there , high up , dangle to see lots of small cages , one for each bird.
Not only in the West Lake, also in the Hoan Kiem lake swim with the fish belly up. The nearly thousand-year turtle , I fear , will not live to see its thousands birthday because she has perished in the muck of modern Hanoi. The fat rat in the restaurant but looks healthy and happy : I values as a good sign in terms of the quality of the cuisine which I remember from Ferry Cairnryan Larne Boat.
A new phrase was born : If D is going to pay , I say , "Go John make your time " , and imagine how you will look up the origin of this phrase in the etymological lexicon in a hundred years , and since then stand and D. I in a hotel in Ha Noi , scantily clad behind half open doors.
Not only long noses and confusion spokesman we need to be Europeans of Vietnamese perspective: every evening we are in the restaurant like on Ferry Dublin Holyhead Boat , the last , do not realize how we force the poor waiter to wait and can provide us almost the chairs on the tables. This means foreigner : no sense of their own rudeness to possess.
Cool , conservative, cautious were the North Vietnamese , says the guide , while in the south to meet more open and more spirited lifestyle. The food will be with decreasing latitude always better,
