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Romania through international eyes

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VIVID POSTCARDS

Postcard from Aruba
by Rick Zeolla
June 2004

It's Monday, and I'm in my car for that tortuously long drive to the hotel. Three minutes, if I can find front row parking, 5 if not. My wife constantly reminds me I could easily walk, but that would involve sweating Ö not a good look for the GM. Temperature in the mid-80s, the constant winds (not breeze Ö WIND) lull me (and many unsuspecting guests, un-tanned when they arrive, brilliant red that'd do any lobster proud when they leave) into believing it is actually cooler and the sun not so intense. White puffy clouds trek double time across the sky as I walk into my air-conditioned office to start another day in paradise...more

Postcard from Melbourne
by Peter Mews
June 2004

The city of Melbourne was founded in 1835. Two men can lay claim to being the city's founder. The first of these men, a rapacious rake named John Batman, famously traded some blankets and beads to the local aboriginal people in exchange for their riverside lands. The colonial government did not, of course, recognise the transaction as legal, and subsequently sold off the land in quarter acre blocks. John Batman had to buy a piece like everybody else...more

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May 2004