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Romania hosting world wine congress from June 2 to 7

June 5, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Bucharest is hosting the 36th world wine and vine congress, attended by 550 participants from 44 countries, 45 years after

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Bulgaria Leisure 

‘Behaviour’ theme of Otets Paisii street festival in Plovdiv from June 7 to 9

June 4, 2013June 5, 2013 Joana Levieva-Sawyer Plovdiv

Exhibitions, installations, concerts, theatre and performance – parallel urban culture will invade Bulgaria’s second city of Plovdiv on June 7,

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Bulgaria’s summer concert highlights, June to August 2013

June 3, 2013October 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Sofia and Varna will rock, Bourgas show off its spirit, and musicians both legendary and upcoming will strut the stages

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Travel: Budapest tourist city bus rides get the show on the road

June 3, 2013June 9, 2013 Niklas Jakobsson of The Budapest Times Hungary

Budapest is a well-known gem on the banks of the Danube – filled with beautiful sites, eons of history and

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Travel: The iron furnaces of Moravia

June 3, 2013June 2, 2013 Marketa Hulpachova of The Prague Post Czech Republic

The Moravian secret of metallurgy dates back to the 8th and 9th centuries, when itinerant metalworkers would flock to the

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Leisure Perspectives 

Travel: Second time around

June 3, 2013October 30, 2019 Mark Thomas tourism

The tales of low cost carriers and how the low cost model is becoming de facto the norm across Europe

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Europe Leisure News 

Poland’s Dreamliner back in service

June 3, 2013 The Warsaw Voice Poland

Poland’s LOT national airlines resumed commercial flights of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner on Saturday after over four months after the jets

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Bulgaria Leisure News 

Bulgarian ‘vampire’ skeleton set to return home

May 31, 2013June 4, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

A year after archaeological digs in the Black Sea town of Sozopol yielded a well-preserved male skeleton buried with a

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Bulgaria Leisure News 

What’s On: Children’s festival in Sofia’s South Park

May 31, 2013May 31, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria celebrates the Day of the Child on June 1, and among planned events is a childrens’ festival on June

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