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THY Turkish Airlines

By Hajo | Published: 20 December 2005

A review by Hajo of Turkey's national flag carrier.
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Siesta in the Sierra

By Hajo | Published: 23 May 2002

Excursions in the Provinces of Madrid and Castilla-León Introduction

It may appear as if British Expat’s travel correspondent has lost his touch on exotic locations.

No more 1001 nights in Kurdistan.

No more incidents with Ossetian rebels on a Georgian mountain pass to Russia.

No more clashes with corrupt policemen in the Balkans.

Instead a column about Paris and now a travel feature on Madrid. Is Hajo’s World finally joining the mainstream of travel websites?

Not at all. A trip to Azerbaijan is firmly planned. The home

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Paris: The best small town in Texas

By Hajo | Published: 12 May 2002

"Writing a city guide for Paris on an amateur travel site is about as useless as attempting to cover London, New York or Tokyo in an article of 1,000 words. Since the arrival of the internet, any such metropolis is the theme of fantastillions (© Hajo) of websites, only exceeded by the huge number of porn sites on the web." BE's very own Hajo takes a different approach to describing the French capital - through literature...
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SWISS International Airlines

By Hajo | Published: 17 January 2002

Thumbs up and fingers crossed - Hajo gives a broadly favourable review to the new incarnation of Swissair.
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Macedonia: the show must go on – Part Two

By Hajo | Published: 3 December 2001

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)

(continued from Part 1)

A ride into the unknown

I knew that I had arrived in the right place when that girl asked me, “Do you work for some international organisation?” In Europe’s new democracies, there aren’t many tourists, and foreigners are mostly expats working for UNDP, the World Bank, the EU, IMF, or some NGO. This shows that new economic potential is being developed, and I have always liked to be a part of this process.

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