European Union - Minus/Favez

A Tourist at the European Union

Advantages: Extensive information centres; lax security standards get you everywhere.
Disadvantages: Dull speakers & boring debates

and Parliament all have information centres which are open to the public. These have facts and figures of the European Union on display, and include showrooms for information films and introductory talks. You get loaded with freebies, ranging from "I love Europe" stickers (also for British guests), to fancy EU stationary, to tons of information brochures and booklets. Further access and insight into the heart of the EU requires a prior registration. If you have come as a visitor without pre-registration, then that's all there is to see, and you may directly jump to my next subheading, surrounding sights. In this case, a visit to the EU makes for a two hours' side-track on a getaway to Brussels. But, as you would have come to expect from me, I will explain how to get a look inside, an I have paved your way to the centre of European politics. As ...

From_The_Continent 20.03.2001 (24.03.2001) · Read full review
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Review of Quartier européen, Brussels

Grand Union

Advantages: lovely staff, many facilities, spacious rooms
Disadvantages: expensive

***LJUBLJANA: A CITY OF CULTURE AND HISTORY*** Ljubljana (pronounced: lube lee ana) is the capital city of Slovenia. There has been a lot of discussion into the name and where it originated from some believe that it was named after the Latin name 'aluviana' which refers to a flooded river. Romantics however would prefer to believe that the name refers to the Slavic word 'Luba' which means 'beloved'. I visited Ljubljana two years ago for a European Convention. I really could not have imagined or prepared for the outstanding beauty of the city. Unlike many cities I have visited this one is surrounded by greenery and is a really gorgeous sight to wake up to everyday. Walking through the city I was drawn immediately to the ornate carvings and beautiful artwork. The buildings have a lot of character and are beautiful. It is ...

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Review of Grand Hotel Union Business, Ljubljana

Union City Blues!

Advantages: It's brave and a good introduction to Erasure
Disadvantages: It's pointless if you already know the band

The new album by Erasure 'Union Street'(their 14th!) is a bit of an enigma, which makes me wonder if the duo have finally run out of ideas, or didn't want to waste them on us. However for the uninitiated this acoustic (yes pop-pickers you heard me correctly 'ACOUSTIC') album strips down the songs to their bare bones and lets out some of the soul as a sample of what they are capable of. Just as the band had recaptured some of the form of its 90s heyday with Erasure's return to electro pop heaven, ('Nightbird') Vince Clark and Andy Bell have gone all acoustic on us, just as the Pet Shop Boys recently did, before going back to their synths. Here is a collection of b-sides and album tracks, redone with 'real' instruments and credible musicians - and way too much slide-guitar. (The name 'Union Street' is the name of the Brooklyn ...

mark_allen71 05.04.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Union Street - Erasure