An Elizabethan scholar and former professor at the University of California, Louis Montrose of the USA, has become the overall winner of the 2011 international Travel Photographer of the Year awards (TPOTY), with two striking, and very different, portfolios; one documenting life in a painted village in Burkina Faso and the other depicting the Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Festival in Oaxaca, Mexico.

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The Eurail Group G.I.E. manages and markets two popular brands on behalf of its member railways and shipping companies: Eurail (for the non-European market) and InterRail (for the European market). Their extensive product range is as wide-ranging as the people they attract to sample the wonders of the European railway network: backpackers, families, business travellers, students, senior citizens and more.

Eurail Passes were created in 1959 when the post-Word War II mass tourism market was in its infancy. As more and more overseas visitors flocked to the continent, Europe’s railway companies saw an opportunity to expand their markets. By offering foreigners a single rail pass that would allow access to the expanding European rail network, they successfully simplified rail travel; eliminating the language barrier and the need to purchase separate tickets for each leg of the journey.

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The exclusive Antiq Palace (Antiq Hotel Spa) is the most recent and equally most unique addition to Ljubljana’s accommodation offering. The newly opened 2500 sq m 16th century property with its spacious interiors, situated in what was once a city residence of several noble families, features 13 individually designed suites and residential apartments, health club,  luxury day spa, three conference suites and  executive business centre in the heart of the historic town centre of Ljubljana. The four star Antiq Hotel, the sister property of the Antiq Palace, opened four years earlier in 2006 as Ljubljana’s first boutique hotel. The concept of a bijoux hotel, previously unfamiliar to the city, became an instant success making Antiq the most intimate place to stay in the artistic Ljubljana.

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