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A written off vessel of the USA armed forces was processed for further services by Virginia shipbuilding facilities, but in this case as an environment for marine inhabitants and amusement for divers of the Key West National Marine Nature Reserve, Florida state.

A six million project of reorganization of the General Hoyt S. Vandenberg 160 meters length into reef will be finished by spring 2008, when the ship would be descended to the depth of 43 meters 10 km to the south of Key West. Vandenberg ship written off in 1983, remained still for 24 years among the vessels of US Navy in Fort -Justice. (more…)

The world biggest open air art festival “Cow Parade” has started in Rio de Janeiro. Plastic cows painted by sketches of more then 100 Brazil painters were placed on the seafront of the world famous beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema. The participants of the show are displayed in the streets and squares and also at the terminals of the airports, stations and undergrounds. Though the Rio citizens are spoiled by different cultural shows, the cow defile aroused their and tourists’ interest. They are taking photos with great pleasure.

According to organizers of the festival which will continue till the 29 of November “Cow Parade” is the world biggest funny open air festival. Scenes painted on the cows backs strikes by its variety.

In 1998 in Zurich passed the first charity “Cow Parade”. About 30 countries in the world have participated in the show.

At the end of the festival the show-pieces are up for auction and received money is going for charitable purpose. About 11 million dollars were received since the show had started.

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A Senate inquiry has found there is an urgent need for a set of national standards to coordinate the support schemes for patients who have to travel for medical treatment.

The inquiry has made 16 recommendations to improve the Patient Assisted Travel Schemes and wants their importance recognised in the next funding agreement between the states and the Commonwealth on health.

Committee member Liberal Senator Judith Adams says the inconsistent levels of support across the states and territories has made it very difficult for patients to receive the most appropriate care.

“Often they were denied that because of financial constraints,” she said.

“There were a number of people in rural and regional and remote areas that just were not being able to access health care, that was probably the biggest issue.”

The “Euro Cheapo” company is designing a program named “CheapoSearch” which will be the first search engine of the budget living places.

The “CheapoSearch” will help you find and make a reservation in small hotels and rest homes all around Europe and also compare different offers. “CheapoSearch” reviews information from 25000 hotels in 32 countries.

Travellers can make a search on date, and decide between available hotels. “CheapoSearch” helps travellers to get better wise to Europe for less time revising best ones of the cheapest European hotels.”, -says “CheapoSearch” founder Tom Meyers. “We are very glad to offer the first personalized search system, combining good advises with the hotels compare system’s ease of use.”

For example, a recent request for living place in Paris on October, 27 year 2007 has given 228 hotels in the central part of the city, 20 of them available to reserve a number worth less than $100 overnight. In Amsterdam for the same day - 174 hotels, 57 of them available to stay overnight for the cost less than $100.

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — Canada must move to lift visa requirements on new European Union member states or face possible retaliatory steps, the European Commission is expected to warn Tuesday.

In a report to be presented to EU interior ministers, the EU executive is expected to call on Canada to allow at least one more EU country to enjoy visa-free travel by the end of the year and show tangible progress in abolishing the visa regime for the others in the first half of next year.

The report, seen by The Associated Press, will say “appropriate steps could be considered” if Canada drags its feet in changing the regime for the eight new EU members that still need visas to travel there. It does not specify what steps the EU or its individual member states could take. (more…)

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On the Florida coast tourists can put up at a hotel on the board of a submarine witch is located 7 meters under the water level. A living-room, a kitchen, equipped with modern technology, a media library and a library, and also two spacious bedrooms are at the disposal of the travellers. One can watch the habitants of the reefs like the barracudas, the parrot-fishes, the reef perches, and also one can see the most beautiful corals and anemones from the illuminator of the Jules Hotel. Guests are offered free of charge diving equipment, besides, there is mentioned on the site that Jules organizes excursions to some interesting places for underwater swimming. The cost of putting up is 125 dollars for a night. The only thing the lodgers should have is diving skills.

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The rising popularity of booking a last-minute break could see more tourists go abroad without travel insurance, it has been suggested.

In research carried out by Sainsbury’s Bank, an estimated 8.8 million tourists purchased a summer holiday this year with no more than two weeks left before they go away.

However, with an estimated three million people going abroad with travel insurance the company suggested that this level could increase further as last-minute deals become more popular.

Steve Johnson, head of travel insurance for the firm, said: “Greater use of the internet and growing competition in the travel industry means that there are many holiday bargains to be had.

“This is great for holidaymakers, but without appropriate insurance in place a holiday can soon turn into a nightmare if disaster strikes.”

He added that the cost of sorting out problems which arise from lacking travel insurance “could run into hundreds or thousands of pounds, surely cancelling out any money saved on a late deal”.

Last month, Tom Griffiths, founder of gapyear.com, reported that the majority of 18 to 24-year-olds usually do not lend much thought to taking out a travel insurance before going abroad.

A new law, forbidding citizens to put legs into the fountain, has been issued in New York. The penalty charged in the case of breaking the law works out at a sum of $50. By the way, the tourists are allowed to throw coins in fountain so far. The law has been accepted in connection with the potential danger for the health of careless citizens who have been chilling, putting their legs in fountain, reports the “Fact news”. The representative of City Parks department Adrian Benepe has notified that the water in fountains is not chlorinated, so it may contain various types of bacteria being a carrying agent of a number of diseases. Furthermore, there is a lot of sharp objects, which are also dangerous for human legs.

The las vegas resorts are indeed the best place for vacations and people usually go there and hire a room in hotel motel for few days. This is not so expensive for people and there are many low cost flights for the Las Vegas as well. This makes the city reachable for everyone. There are different cruises as well that take a trip around Las Vegas.

Few cheap cruises are available too, before deciding any cruise for the voyage one must read the cruise line reviews so that they can get an idea about different packages and prices. The prices of cheap hotel motel depend on the services and time of bookings.

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Photo exhibition in the honor of soldiers suffered from Iraqi War has been opened in New York. The photos have been made last year at the USA Middle East agrarian town by the American photographer Nina Berman. The exhibition takes place in New York Jen Bekman Gallery. It appears as a yet one example of arts and journalism fusion. The production photos were made for illustration of the article dedicated to the wedding of a soldier who has lost his face during the war by the People magazine request, reports The New York Times. The magazine preferred to publish the general photo of the couple because the close-up view looks too horrible. The exhibition presented the photos which were not published in the magazine.

Hurricane “Dean” has reached the fifth and most dangerous category of force on Monday and threatens thousands of tourists that have a vacation at the resorts of the Caribbean coast of Mexico.

As the National Hurricane Centre of the USA reports, 11 people became already the victims of the hurricane at the time of its passage through the islands of the Caribbean Basin and now the gusts have befallen the Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula at a speed of about 256 kilometers per hour.

The police has already arranged for the automobiles to be gotten out of the roads and for the shop windows to be boarded up. The authorities try to stave off the failures in the resort zone that is also called “Riviera Maya” and is famous for its snow-white sand, which hasn’t been restored after the consequences of Hurricane “Wilma” in 2005 so far.

A tropical downpour fell upon the resort place called Playa del Carmen and the island of Cozumel adjacent to it on Monday evening and the wind that blew from the sea began to gain strength. The authorities have announced the curfew and the streets of the coastal zone are patrolled by servicemen and police details.

About 400 tourists have found shelter from the rampage of the tempest in Playa del Carmen hotel there are 12 people in each room.

President Felipe Calderon was forced to reduce the visit to Canada, where he had an appointment with USA President George Bush and to return home in order to watch over the emergency situation.