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Child-Free Zone in Berlin Cafe Causes Controversy
08.03.2010, 14:23:10
First it was smokers, now it is children. A Berlin café has excited debate by establishing a no-child section. For a nation with a low birth rate that is trying to encourage its citizens to have more babies, such an anti-child policy is cause for concern. In the middle of one of the most child-friendly neighborhoods in Berlin, one café is bucking the trend. In what appears to be a first for the German capital, the Café Niesen in Prenzlauer Berg has established a child-free zone on its own premises. Berlin - Prenzlauer Berg - Germany - Child - German

The Next Big Thing: British DJ Granny Rocks!
09.03.2010, 12:17:25
At 69, Ruth Flowers, a.k.a DJ Mamy Rock, is the latest sensation on the European nightclub scene. Nightclub - Disc jockey - DJ - Music - Arts and Entertainment

Ground Zero Hotel Wants to Attract 9/11 Tourists
08.03.2010, 14:13:33
Hotel rises on edge of rebuilding, uses proximity to attract tourists. Ground zero - Travel and Tourism - Hotel - Lodging - Netherlands

How the "Blue Voyage" started?

This most popular of sea adventures began quite by mistake when a few years after the foundation of the Turkish Republic, a political writer, Cevat Sakir Kabaagacli, was exiled to Bodrum for publishing a story about army fugitives.

The judges who sentenced Cevat Sakir to a number of years in the remote port knew nothing of its lifestyle, which as Cevat Sakir found out, was something like paradise. He settled down and adopted the name, the "Fisherman of Halicarnassos", writing stories about the town and its locals-in particular, the fishermen.

On his regular outings with fisher men, he gradually got to know the various coves and bays in the Gulf of Gokova. When visiting intellectuals from Istanbul dropped in, he took the opportunity to introduce them to the fisherman.s way of life. Together they constructed a theory of culture which embraced the cultures of all the people who lived in Asia Minor. Sakir's tours of the Gulf of Gokova became famous and were given the name, "Mavi Yolculuk" or "Blue Cruise".

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