TENIS CAMP ALBENA - April - European Resort of Sport
Albena welcomed 250 tennis players from Germany, Austria and Romania in April. All 18 tennis courts in the resort are filled with organized groups that run their Easter tennis camps.
Iliya Atanasov, Tennis Coordinator in Albena
This is a purposeful policy of Albena. This is a project that has been developing together for sixth consecutive year. These are results at the moment. For the first time, we welcome so many guests in April and we are very happy. Just in the anniversary year for Albena and the year when Albena is the European Resort of sport. We are proud and are happy with what we achieve. This is a natural step in the project, which we run along with Albena.
Among the guests of Albena is the famous German coach Joachim Jackstadt, who chose the resort to prepare the contestants from his North Tennis Academy. Jackstadt arrived with some of the best young tennis players in Germany, including Georg Israelan, who is in the top 4 of Europe until the age of 14.
Joachim Jackstadt, founder of tennis academy
Will be here next year again. There is a friendly athmosphere here in Bulgaria. Iliya Atanasov is a friend of mine, we help each other to develop young players. We have a good relationship with the Bulgarian Tennis Federation. We are glad to be guests of Albena - the European resort of sport .
Iliya Atanasov, Tennis Coordinator in Albena - 2,59 - 3,13
We must proudly point out that these people have come here right now. Last year, they were in Mallorca, Turkey, Croatia, but they are now our guests and I'm sure they will remain so for the future too.
Their camps in Albena are held by other tennis specialists such as Katja Kramarz, Thomas Shulze, Darko Matijevic, Virgil Radulescu and Alexander Grozdanovic.
Alexander Grozdanovic, tennis coach
We are for the first time at Albena and we are very, very satisfied with the conditions here. These are very good. We have enough time to practice and office here are very good. Tennis courts are in very good condition. Albena is not just a touristic place - it's a place for some kind of tennis competition. The hotel is also very good. Albena is something special because there is just hotels - there is no city, no town, but we like it .
This year's tennis program in Albena is extremely rich as an European REsort of sport
AmaWaterways Excursion Down the Danube Gorge Wtih a Visit to Regensburg, Germany
AmaWaterways' trip down the historic and once troublesome Danube Gorge and on to the German city of Regensburg during a river cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest on the Rhine, Main and Danube Canals documented by travel filmmaker Clint Denn. The first narrowing of the Danube lies beyond the Romanian isle of Moldova Veche and is known as the Golubac gorge. It is 14.5 km long and 230 m (755 ft) wide at the narrowest point. At its head, there is a medieval fort at Golubac, on the Serbian bank. Through the valley of Ljupovska lies the second gorge, Gospodin Vir, which is 15 km long and narrows to 220 m (722 ft). The cliffs scale to 500 m and are the most difficult to reach here from land. The broader Donji Milanovac forms the connection with the Great and Small Kazan gorge, which have a combined length of 19 km (12 mi). The Orşova valley is the last broad section before the river reaches the plains of Wallachia at the last gorge, the Sip gorge.
Regensburg is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube. To the east lies the Bavarian Forest. Regensburg is the capital of the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate. The large medieval centre of the city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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