Brick Rural House Near Biala - ID 3096

Turkish Dedeman Hotel Chain Enters Bulgaria 14/03/2008
Turkish hotel chain Dedeman Hotels&Resorts International will take over the management of two Bulgarian hotels, owned by Turkish businessman Sudi Ozkan, Dnevnik daily reported on February 29. The hotel operator has already placed job ads to fill available vacancies in Bulgarian papers. Dedeman will take over the Ozkan hotels - the 200-room Trimontsium Princess in Plovdiv and the 600-room Sofia Princess in the Bulgarian capital, in early March. The Turkish operator intends to invest in upgrading the two hotels which are currently rated at four stars. Dedeman manages a total of 20 urban and resort hotels, most of them in Turkey, but also in Latvia, Cyprus, Moldova and Uzbekistan. The company intends to add some five or six urban and resort hotels to its portfolio in near future. Murat... more

Had Enough Of Living Abroad and The Realities Of Repatriation 18/03/2008
There was a fascinating comments thread on an article about returning to live in the UK on a popular expat site on the internet.  Rather than being filled with helpful comments from repats (those who have repatriated to the UK after living abroad) – it was full of a combination of fairly vicious and incredulous comments from both those still living in the UK and expats happy to remain overseas.  The UK residents seemed incredulous that anyone would want to return, and the expats abroad seemed harshly judgemental of those who wanted to go ‘home’! Anyway, the fact of the matter is, almost as fast as we’re leaving the UK, some of those who have expatriated before us choose to return home.  And if you’ve had enough of living abroad, this article about the realities of repatriation should... more