Monthly Archives: March 2007

The idea for this article and the others to follow started when I saw two episodes of a recent series on UK television scaremongering about retiring to Spain. These two episodes are part of a current spate of programmes which seem to repeat the same message time after time and are on top of previous programmes shown last year. This time they seem to be concentrating on the medical provision in Spain.

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The waters of Tanzania are only just beginning to gain worldwide fame, which means these waters are less populated with boats and fishing is at its most pristine. However, fishing is an economic stronghold of many parts of rural Tanzania and quickly becoming a popular activity for fishing safaris along the country’s rivers and lakes. And the deep waters of the Indian Ocean along Tanzania’s coast are rich in big-game fish.

Deep sea fishing

Deep sea fishing in the Indian Ocean’s waters


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Pic of the Week – 26 March 2007

Maciej Lewandowski © 2006

This is a statue of two travellers taken by Maciej Lewandowski in his home town of Torun, Poland. Maciej currently lives in Invergowrie in Angus.

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In this issue This week: The age of the train? Virtual Snacks Bizarre Searches Quotation and joke

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If you follow the UK news, you’ll have seen that today UK Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander announced the provision of 1,000 new railway carriages for Great Britain’s hard-pressed rail network, to be introduced by 2014. The carriages will be used to lengthen trains in the


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"With France being the largest country in western Europe, there is a huge choice of locations. Where you would like to live depends upon many different issues, such as whether you like a place with many neighbours or you prefer a more isolated area, or whether you prefer to have an apartment or a detached home on its own land..." David Seymour looks at some of the factors influencing your choice of property in France.
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