HU – Budapest From My Room
Category: Countries
CY – Church Into Mosque
Location: Famagusta Old Town (North Cyprus).
Another church turned into Mosque.
EE – Going To Tallinn, Estonia
Estonia, the smallest of the Baltic States, was ruled for many centuries by Danish, Swedish, German, and Russian factions.
When the former Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, it gained its long-awaited independence.
Official Name : Republic of Estonia
Population : 1,268,000
Capital City : Tallinn (379,000)
Languages : Estonian
Official Currency : Kroon
Religions : Lutheran, Orthodox Christain, others
Land Area : 45,125 sq km (17,423 sq miles)
Europe’s border-free zone expands
The Schengen agreement, which allows passport-free travel across the area, now embraces 24 nations. The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia joined the zone.
For non-EU nationals, a Schengen visa allows travel across all the participating countries.
Thirteen existing EU states have already been part of the Schengen accord as well as two non-EU countries, Norway and Iceland.
The UK and Ireland are not involved in the zone – which embraces 400m people – but they have signed up to agreements on security.
A significant element of the Schengen agreement is the Schengen Information Service (SIS) which features an enormous database in the French city of Strasbourg.
The SIS database enables police in any Schengen state to find out whether a suspect has been involved in any kind of crime across the EU.
BG: Woke Up With Snow
Slept yesterday night in Sofia with a regular temperature, but woke up this morning with snow and -5 !!!
