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Archive for February, 2008

possibly the worlds oldest web site

Posted by borlova on February 29, 2008

http://info.cern.ch/the worlds_oldest_web_site

well ok i was very bored ;-) but Tim Berners-Lee could have got a hair cut for the photo. :-)

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Borlova to UK to Haro Spain

Posted by borlova on February 29, 2008

mmmm looking promising but not promising nothing but its certainly got my interest haro spain heart of the rioja wine

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Spain seems a place to go other than the UK

Posted by borlova on February 29, 2008

or Borlova is looking much the same

but i was looking seriously at spain not so bad considering, mountains and beaches good wines and friendly people

heres some good tips i found about moving to spain

Moving to spain tips and advice

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not just romanians in east anglia

Posted by borlova on February 26, 2008

http://www.virginmedia.com/yourlocal/news/east-anglia.php?storyid=21489833

well its official there are many people here in Norwich from eastern Europe, i see this from the number of shops selling eastern European foods. i would love to know how many Romanians are actually in Norwich i think may be 40 or 50 but not more well we will see. my girlfriend is one lets see how many others live here.

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Dyslexic SEO

Posted by borlova on February 24, 2008

Got to laugh at my self just registered 2 new blogs and spelt them both wrong in the urls :-)

hurculane.wordpress.com and apusini.wordpress.com should have been other spellings oops got one of them right now apuseni.wordpress.com

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Some trivial facts about romania

Posted by borlova on February 24, 2008

- In the Romanian mountains are more then 200 gorges

In Romania women out number men by about 600,000 more

- The first town in Europe with street electric lightning was Timisoara Town.

I may add some more later :-)

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Tips on visiting romania

Posted by borlova on February 24, 2008

When you come to Romania it is better to know some useful tips:

1. On the border or in the city if someone asks you to change money, avoided without any explanation. Don’t change the money on the street – is illegal! and risky

2.Be careful to protect your luggage in especially in bus or railway station or airport. normal in any country

3. If someone asks you for entrance tickets or fees, or any taxes and fines, politely ask for his identity card or authorization.

4. When you want to take a car from the road or a taxi, you must think to pay the driver (about. 3 – 4 Euro for 100km, or to ask the driver about the price, before getting in the car.

5. Don’t visit the gipsy community or marginal streets from the big cities alone. You can normally tell these areas as the people are generally much darker skinned than most Romanians in essence just remain streetwise

6. If you come with your car is better to respect the rules and to use all most national or European roads. Communal roads are very poor!

7. Be careful where you park. It Is hard to find a parking place in the centre of the cities and you must to pay for that place.

I removed 8 , don’t leave luggage at a railway locker

9. The prices in hotels of three, four and five stars are almost similar to the West in cities but still much cheaper than the uk. If you have a low budget try to sleep in guesthouses or pensions

10. You can use your tent only in special places around tourist towns and resorts for an accessible price. Not every town has special places for camping or tents. But most locals will let you pitch for a price

11. For entrance in these areas you must to pay a ticket: Retazat National park, Ceahlau National park, Turzii Gorges Reservation, Danube Delta Reservation.

12. In the mountains you can put your tent in special and recommended places. Or anywhere you feel safe to do so at your own risk

13. Don’t leave the tent all the day. I know some shepherds specialized to steal everything.

14. A very big problem in the mountains is the shepherd’s dogs – very aggressive with travellers. Sometime I saw shepherds urged their dogs to me. Some shepherds have more then 10 dogs. (Only three dogs for 100 sheep are legal)

15. in Bucegi, Postavaru, Munceii Predealului, Piatra Craiului, Iezer and Ciucas mountains are domestic bears sometime, when you don’t take their any food and they are hungry can be aggressive and to tear tents, finding food. I don’t recommended to put your tent alone in these areas.

16. You need a good map or a good professional guide for trekking, hiking or climbing in Romania. In some areas the touristy marks are very old and invaded by vegetation. Is not so funny to spend a night lost in large and wild Romanian woods? I recommended you a guide service. Is more secure and affordable.

17. …also for rock climbing is more important to have a good guide with you. many climbing routes are old full of vegetation and insecure. I renamed that route “kamikaze”. Some tops are dangerous made. Also in Romania are a lot of very beautiful and secure route, but you need someone to show you those routes and to help you in difficult moments.

18. in winter the avalanche danger is present in all the mountains higher then 1800m. If you don’t have any experience I recommend you do not go alone or without someone experienced.

19. When you visit a monastery you must to have your legs cover. The shorts aren’t recommended and are considerate immoral.

20. When you visit an important cultural sight, is a ticket for entrance very affordable and a special ticket for photos and shootings. This last ticket can be expensive, much more then entrance ticket. After you pay will be surprised when you will see inside the monument a sign with “no photo and shooting”.

21. Romanian wine is very good and cheap, but don’t drink too much! Try to buy certified wine bottles. Or if you feel adventurous go for some home brew

22. In the villages and in small towns majority people speak only Romanian.

23. Romania is full of dogs without owner land. Everywhere you are, somewhere there is a dog. Some are pretty some are aggressive…depends on your luck.

23. Many Romanian maps are old, poor and inaccurate. Don’t trust 100% in maps.

24. In remote villages all the people salute! Is better if you use a salute like: “Buna ziua!”, (Good afternoon!) or “Doamne ajuta” (God help us!).

25. Romania is a very beautiful country with nice and friendly people. Be cautious but friendly and open hard and I assure you will not be disappointed.

 A modified guide to Romania the original can be found here written by Valeriu (Vali) Catargiu – national tour guide from Romania

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News Flights to Romania Cluj added to wizz air

Posted by borlova on February 24, 2008

www.blueair-web.com/

www.wizzair.com/

Cluj now added to wizz air destinations makes it cheaper to fly than before. i just checked out a fare for 2 adults and one child under 14 and the return fare worked out at just over 300 GBP not bad, and the internal land transport is so cheap for other destinations. may be onto a winner again? this opens up the route to the

mountains and Apusini district in Romania a very nice area not far from cluj

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Dating Romanian Women and Men

Posted by borlova on February 24, 2008

Its fast becoming apparent to me that this is a popular subject, born out of curiosity i am about to embark on a research project to see if this would be an area where i could get involved considering i have had a little experience of it first hand.

to outline and remind you i have a Romanian girlfriend already, hence the knowledge, i also know other people in the same situation as well,being British and having a Romanian partner.

Dating a Romanian is no different than any other physical attraction is exactly the same no matter which country. however there are a few subtle differences  from English women (cant speak for the men) whilst the all women are the same motto applies, i suppose it depends on the individual situation. i have had a look at some of the dating sites for romania and its plain for me to see some of these sites a phishing sites,some are just plain cloned, others are genuine and have genuine people on them amongst the generic pictures and profiles designed to draw in punters. most of thew sites i saw i wouldn’t recommend. i was thinking to try to find a way to make a genuine dating site or portal and currently am scratching my head as it is not without problems. Firstly not many women would pay to be on a dating site in Romania, second i would be reluctant to start vetting uk mens applications to date Romanian girls. I wouldn’t want the blame for anything that went wrong. Its a funny old game is dating. i think my advice would be to men seeking women in Romania is beware,not all you hear may be the truth, especially if you get an introduction from a dating site.

I think maybe the internet has a lot to offer those seeking love in Romania and the uk ,but at the same time its a dangerous world.

if i come up with a bright spark idea on how to put people in touch i will sure post it here

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Ho hum sleepless seo freelancer

Posted by borlova on February 24, 2008

Well I slept too much and I am up at night bored after doing all the normal stuff so I thought I would have a read to see if that would make me sleepy again and I picked the subject of search engine optomisation to start me off, always good to get your yawn glands going ;-) any way I would like to thank Nicky for this quote from her personal blog http://www.web-seo.co.uk/

I suspect she is using her vast SEO experience and knowledge to promote her Freelance seo business

“I can see blog advertising becoming a great resource not only for advertisers, but for bloggers as well. Bloggers get paid for blogging, and Advertisers get links into their website!

Everybody wins!” hope you win nicky, and thanks for this article you wrote.

Thanks to you i may just have stumbled onto a sure fire bet to earn some extra dosh, but that’s not normally my luck, but I will investigate this getting paid to write articles and reviews like I naively did for the real beer blog for free monty ;-(

It seems possibly that with my previous knowledge of seo and other web activities such as website construction I may just earn a few extra bucks.

I was curious why I have had more than 3000 attempts to spam my blog mmm me thinks the old link thing may be the reason. Now on reflection I think back to the principals of natural writing and link building. The reason I started this blog in the first place was just as a diary of my time in Romania in Borlova and to keep my self from being bored but actually I can use this to my own advantage without deviating from this original theory. It would encompass both my passion for writing and the Internet with my experience of SEO work and the desire to earn some extra wonga for the little luxury’s in life.

So all I need to do is get myself a paypal account and the cash will simply flood in: in my dreams, oops must have dozed off I am in la la land again. Surely it can’t be that simple I am trying to find the catch? Apart from writing a lot of drivle about some company you don’t even know and posting a link I don’t quite get it just yet? Or are these people just getting freelance copywriters at a knockdown price? Still depending on how quick you can churn an article out you could be earning three quid for an article that should only take 30 minutes to produce. So I presume you have to cut this time down and copy and paste a lot of stuff or have someone do it for you and pay him or her less. I wonder if that’s where these earn quick cash working from home schemes are from lately I have seen a lot of these springing up. It makes sense to me lets presume you pay some unsuspecting person to write a copy article for a quid and you then post it for 3 quid. It’s like pyramid selling but all legal. Most of the general public aren’t switched on enough to get paid for blogging, so some wise boy pays them to write copy and sells it for more. I think I’m getting the drift now the pennies dropping.

i must go off and write some good articles like this one

Nicky SEO Freelance copywriter.

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