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THE
ISSUE 25 | SatUrday, may 23
rd
2009 | yEar II
POWErEd By
šibenskilist
Islands in the sun
mue is collecion of wonous islns off e dlincos. te own of mue is seleen on e noes cosof e isln of e se ne. Wi ul beking nuen geneous ospili i’s es o see ow w e islns epopul wi ouiss.
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sibenik times
saturdaymay 23
rd
2009.
Welcome to our beautiful city and to theseventh edition of the second season of“The Sibenik Times”. Arms are flailing,gestures are animated and tempera-tures seemed to be raised. This kindof “street theatre” can be seen in anyplace in the Sibenik County, but don’tworry the actors in this play are simplyhaving a conversation. Croatians, beingsouthern Europeans, have a tendencyto speak not only with their mouths butalso using their hands. At first glance thisform of conversation may look unusualand maybe even unnerving. But don’tworry, the conversation is normally aneveryday event like football or shopping.The street scenes actually reminded meof watching an Italian movie, it was likeI had walked onto the set of a Fellinimovie were people are always wavingtheir hands around as if trying to swat aannoying mosquito. Whereas northernEuropeans tend to speak without theuse of their hands, southern Europeansuse them in every opportunity to physi-cally describe the dialogue. And I mustsay, after living in Croatia for elevenyears, this behaviour is catching. I’vestarted to animate my own conversa-tions. And as the growth and popularityof mobile phones invaded Dubrovnik sothe situation got more comical. Peopleeverywhere seemed to be mumbling tothemselves while gesticulating wildly.At first I thought they were crazy butthe closer I got I noticed that they weretalking on their mobile phones. Thewhole situation made me laugh, twopeople talking to each other miles apartand gesticulating with their hands as ifthe other person was right in front ofthem. All those animated discussionsare proof positive that Croatians expressthemselves with their hands even whilespeaking on the phone. And then mobilephones developed into hands-free andthe situation became even more bizarre.
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SPEaK UP!
We woul love o e fo ou.Plese wie o sen n e-il ous bou ou s in Sibenik. yo-u coens e vluble o usn e os ineesing leeswill be publise eve week. In-eesing n unusul poos elso welcoe. tnks.marK thOmaSk.os@sibenik-ies.co
AMBASSADOR WANTS VISA REGIME LIFTED
SPORTS STAR CHOOSES TOHOLIDAY CROATIA STYLE
VODAFONE CUTS ROAMING CHARGES IN CROATIA
CAMPS SEE TOURIST RISE
TOTAL SMOKING BAN ENTERS FORCE
Croatia has started with acomplete ban on smoking fromWednesday the 6th of May.Smoking at bars will only beallowed on terraces, while resta-urants would have the possibili-ty of allocating a separate roomfor smokers. Also, the bill ban smoking onall work places. Smoking hasalready been banned in health,social institutional and educati-on facilities. The new bill alsointroduces a special health war-ning on every pack of cigarettes.Health Minister Darko Milinovicsaid with the new law the gover-nment want to change people’ssmoking habits and protect non-smokers.US ambassador to Croatia Ro-bert Bradtke has said he wantsto see the visa regime for Croa-tians travelling to America lifted.Bradtke said yesterday in an in-terview with 'Slobodna Dalma-cija' that relations between Cro-atia and the US were excellentbut that more work needed to bedone in strengthening economicties between the two countriesand making it easier for Croats'to visit the US. Bradtke said: "Wehave already introduced visasfor ten year stays in the US forCroatian residents, but our goalto lift the visa requirement forCroats travelling to the US. But, we are aware that will take sometime." A retired Slovenian basketball star has optedfor a Croatia travel experience this summer. IvoDaneu, who is 71 years old, will spend time in thecountry over the weekend. The ex-sportsman hashis own ship and will be checking out the delightsoffered by the Dalmatia islands. Commenting tothe newspaper, Daneu revealed that he will spendthree days cruising around the popular Croatiaholiday destinations. It would appear that a num-ber of British vacationers have had a similar ideato the Slovenian this year because the Post Officereports that the kuna currency has been one of the fastest-growing foreign exchange markets in2009. Head of travel services at the Post OfficeSarah Munro said that the fact Croatia is not inthe euro zone may be one of the reasons for itspopularity among tourists. “Post Office sales showthat (sales of the kuna are) up eight per cent onthe same period last year,” she explained.Croatian camp sites have re-ported a rise in visitor numbers.Figures from the Croatian cam-ping union show that betweenthe Easter weekend starting 11 April and May Day holidays 4.2per cent more people stayed incamps than in the same periodlast year. Union chiefs said pre-liminary figures showed 65,800tourists made 240,000 overnightstays in the period. The biggestrises were seen at the 'Arenatu-rist' camp in Pula (57 per cent)and the ‘Park Soline' camp in theDalmatia region. Adriano Pal-man, Croatian camping unionhead said: "Holidaymakers ha- ve begun to realise the quality of Croatian camps."For Vodafone UK customersplanning this year's holiday,Croatia could be the destinati-on of choice. Not only does thecountry offer the popular touristareas of Dubrovnik and Dalma-tia, it now joins a list of nationsthat allow users of the telecomsfirm to benefit from no roamingcharges. This deal from the mo-bile phone company has beenput in place for the summer and will be useful for all Vodafone-using foreign visitors headingon a vacation to Croatia in thecoming months. Indeed, Voda-fone UK customers will not haveto pay roaming fees when they visit any country in Europe overthe summer. Consumer directorat Vodafone UK Ian Shepherdsaid: "The mobile phone marketin the UK is incredibly competi-tive and if you are going to wincustomers the way to do that isto give them great value for mo-ney." He added that the company has launched a number of offersover the last few months for this very reason. "Over the last fewmonths we've launched a seriesof offers for customers that aredesigned to do exactly that, and we hope that this will give ourcustomers reason to stay with usand others reason to join us.
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rd
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DID YOU KNOW?
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•Zirjeisthefurthestinhabitedis
-ln fo Sibenik n is siue20.4 kiloees sou-wes of eci.
•Murteristhelargestislandin
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•CroatiawontheDaviscupin
2005.
•CroatiaisbiggerthanBelgium,
denk, holln n Swize-ln.
•Thereare1,185Islandsofthe
cos of Coi, 66 of e einbie
•ThefamousscientistNikolaTesla(1856-1943),inventorof
lening cuen, ws bon in
Smiljan,Croatia,anddiedinNew
yok, USa
•Has2,197kmoflandborders.
Bosni n hezegovin 932 k -
Slovenia670km-Hungary329km-SerbiaandMontenegro(north)241km-SerbiaandMontenegro(south)25km•Croatiahashadindependencesince25June1991•Has1.825milliontelephones
in use bu 2.553 illion obilepones in use.
UKRAINE PREPARE TO VISIT CROATIA
CALLS FOR MORE RESEARCH INTODOMESTIC ENERGY SOURCES
SIBENIK SCHOOLS OFFER SPECIAL PROGRAM
THE FIRST SOLAR-POWER PLANT WILL BE BUILT IN SIBENIK
The maritime school "Adriamare" inSibenik is starting a new educational pro-gramme the aim of which is to teach sea-farers how to deal with pirates. Adriama-re head Nikolina Cigic said today (Weds)Croatian seafarers would be among thefirst in the world to learn about piratesand their tactics and aims. Cigic addedstudents would also learn how to avoidtheir ambushes and how should one beha- ve if captured by pirates. The educationalprogramme will also provide informationabout negotiating with pirates, the daily Slobodna Dalmacija has reported. CaptainGordan Baraka, one of Adriamare’s fo-unders, said: "At this moment, more than20,000 Croatian sailors are on 5,000 to6,000 ships around the world, and that isa huge number. All of them are potential victims of pirates, who are becoming theglobal threat of the 21st century." In itseducational programme, Adriamare willuse the experience and knowledge of Isra-eli maritime companies, the ships of whichpirates avoid because Israeli crews knowhow to deal with them. The programmehas been set up according to the criteria of the International Maritime Organization(IMO). Lecturers will be Croat seafarers,maritime inspectors, managers and capta-ins who have dealt with or been capturedby pirates. The course will start in June. Adriamare was the first school to offereducational programmes for seafarers onsafety on the sea 20 years ago, and it ho-sted a world conference on safety on thesea two years ago. The school is also pla-nning a world conference on piracy.The first Croatian solar-power plant willbe built in Promina municipality, northe-ast of Tribunj, in Sibenik-Knin county. Themunicipality’s urban plan reserves around250 hectares of land for the power plant,the daily Jutarnji list has reported. If thelocal government agrees, the first solar-power plant will be build by the ZagrebNexus investment fund. Nexus represen-tatives Miha Jager and Marko Mahek said today (Tues) the solar-power plant would have a capacity of 60 MW, 10 MWmore than the first and only Europeansolar-power plant in Spain. The plant,construction of which will take two yearsand employ 300 workers, will cost aro-und 80 million Euros. Once finished, theplant will employ almost 100 workers, 80per cent of whom will be specialists. TheNexus representatives added that Croatiantechnology and equipment would be usedin construction of the plant. Jager and Ma-hek added Nexus wanted to build anothersolar-power plant near the town of Drnis.Croatia plays host to a vital World Cup quali-fying match next month, when Ukraine are the visitors to the country on June 6th. A victory forthe visitors could mean they leapfrog their hostsin the Group Six table, which is currently led by Fabio Capello’s England side. Ukrainians headingover for the match will be looking for apartmentsand other accommodation to stay in during theirtrip. Football fans may want to make the most of their vacation by heading down to the Adriaticcoast after the game in Zagreb is over. Indeed, it was recently suggested that people who visit Cro-atia from Ukraine’s neighbouring nation Russiaare “classy”. Croatia’s tourism minister Damir Bajssaid: “Around 80 per cent of [Russians] who cometo Croatia have a university education. “An avera-ge Russian tourist spends more than 100 euros aday while other tourists spend around 56 euros.”Experts have called for intensive research intodomestic energy sources after it was estimated anadditional 60 million barrels of oil could be foundin the Pannonian region of the country alone. Spe-aking at the 40th general meeting of the ScientificCouncil of Oil of the Croatian National Academy of Sciences yesterday (Thurs) oil expert Niko Dalicsaid the country had unused resources of oil andgas. He said in the Pannonian region alone a po-tential 60 billion barrels of oil could be extractedfrom 25 identified new potential sites. He addedthat there was also a potential 40 billion of cubicmeters of gas in reserves under the Adriatic.
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