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Geraldine Knatz Is the New President of IAPH
Geraldine Knatz has been elected president of the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH).
The Best of Norway: Real Places, People, and Things
Are recent trip to Milan proved more fruitful than we could have imagined when to our surprise Italy was made much cooler by a Nordic blast. I am not referring to the arctic winds from crisp Scandinavia either, but of great people from a place not many will have heard of. What you are about to read will hopefully be as pleasant a surprise for you as Norwegians Frode and Yvonne Aass (image below) were for us.
The Czech Tourist Authority: Template for European Outreach
In news from the Czech Republic, Tourist Authority Director Radka Neumannova is one Eastern European bureaucrat who knows how to engage and inform potential industry and tourists. Like many countries in the region, the Czech Republic is largely thought of as a travel destination for one city only. But there is a lot more to this vibrant destination than Prague.
The Coolest Tours On Earth – Angkor Photo Workshop
For those of you out there with a photographic itch to scratch, travel to exotic places for photo ops has to be high on your list of “to do’s”. So, for your photography travel wish list this season, Argo would like to suggest one of the most exotic and absolutely the coolest photo trip possible. Jim Cline Photo Tours is offering the unique opportunity of a lifetime for some, an Angkor Photo Workshop at Cambodia’s Khmer temples of Angkor.
Treasures Close at Heart: Romania’s Dan Chisovsky
Like most searchers for the exquisite, the rare, the beautiful, many of our most extraordinary discoveries come from very near. Dan Chisovsky, award winning graphic designer, film director, and professor of animation for Romania’s Ministry of Education, is today’s Treasures of Eastern Europe profile today.
Europe After Dark Co-Star Eva Galani
Last Summer we covered a fascinating story about Europe After Dark, an upcoming series covering the European party scene. Today we revisit the upcoming series with one of the Co-Stars, Eva Galani. Eva, gracious as ever, granted Argophilia this exclusive interview where she talks about the series and her own budding career.
Fancy Flying a Spaceship?
Sir Richard Branson, the ambitious and ever so slightly eccentric founder of the Virgin Galactic space tourism firm, has put out a call for daredevil starship pilots to make his starry eyed dreams a reality.
The Holi Festival – A Celebration of Color
This weekend sees the vivid colors of the Holi Festival in India explode into life once more – a spectacular two week Hindi celebration that marks the triumph of good over evil. Beginning with a series of bonfires lit up across the nation on Holika Dahan, the eve of the Holi Festival, the real action kicks off the day after as revelers take to the streets in an orgy of dancing, singing and colored powder being thrown everywhere.
Tribute to A Sci-Fi Legend: Ion Hobana
In honor of one of Romania’s and the world’s great writers, Ion Hobana, who made my lovely wife’s childhood that much more rich, I dedicate this short tribute.
Ion Hobana (lower left), 80, died of cancer on yesterday, February 22, 2011 in Bucharest. Hobana was Romania’s best most widely known Science Fiction writer, for Romanians and people around the world, a artist of the perhaps, even the inevitable.
Karlo Damijanić – Croatia’s World Class Bartender
Karlo Damijanić from Pula, Croatia took fourth place in the recent World Bartender Championships in Singapore. Taking part in the “flair category,” the 23 drink juggler extraordinary gave gave a superb stage performance, taking Croatia to the World Cup for the first time ever. Karlo is aiming even higher for next year’s competition.
Brâncuşi’s Gate of the Kiss – A Metaphor of Romanian Spirit
Romania celebrates today Constantin Brâncuşi’s 135th birthday – a reason for Argophilia to invite you to Târgu Jiu, to see the sculptor’s finest outdoors works.