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Despite of the impact of Michael Jackson’s sudden death the spirit of this year’s festival seemed to be fantastic: Look at these atmospheric and amazing pictures of the Glastonbury festival 2009, Europe’s largest greenfield and open-air music festival! Read the rest of this entry »

…and now uses this kind of ‘micro-blogging’ cutting-edge service as ‘early bird’ for more than 18 months…standing ovation, clap clap ! So why don’t we appear in Twitter’s story??!! How come?! Read the rest of this entry »

Antigua and Barbuda (Spanish for “Ancient” and “Bearded”) is an island nation located on the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of two islands  – Antigua and Barbuda as well as a number of smaller satellite islets and rocks. Read the rest of this entry »

This week’s protests in Iran are truly unprecedented in the history of the Islamic Republic (on Thursday 18th of June, a million people, who feel cheated, demonstrated in the streets of Tehran and even more protests are taking place all over the country!) and today, Friday, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei insisted there had been no fraud in the result and declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s voting win as definitive… Read the rest of this entry »

…and here we go again…

Governorates of Bahrain
Bahrain is split into 5 governorates. These governorates are: Read the rest of this entry »

Me myself and I - one of the lucky belodged.com members - took a 1 week time out to check in /out Dubai and Abu Dhabi ;0) … in a few words: what an exciting experiment Dubai is… simply incomparable! Read the rest of this entry »

…and we go on with adding still missing administrative division of some more countries to the belodged.com country database…

- Guatemala is divided into 22 departments (departamentos): Read the rest of this entry »

As we yet wrote earlier (Top 10 countries) the belodged.com community is on its way to expand home hosting free of charge all over the world. So the following list gives you an interesting overview about the top 12 cities where quite a considerable amount of overnight accommodation is offered by belodged.com members:

Country -  City

Rank 1: Buenos Aires in Argentina
Rank 2: Vilnius in Lithuania
Rank 3: Moscow in Russia Read the rest of this entry »

The belodged.com community grows increasingly every day and the great number of members offering free lodging in various countries and cities accordingly. That’s why we thought that you would be interested in a first TOP 10 countries ranking of belodged.com members providing private overnight accommodations free of charge.

As you can see the belodged.com community is quite well balanced over the majority of 136 countries (please note the calendar date of this post). The reason why Germany is relatively over-represented in this list is the fact that many members from the former globiwalk.com website wished to be transfered to the newer belodged.com portal. Little Switzerland on Rank 6 is quite surprising, ok, but it is less if you consider the circumstance of having the core development team living in the heart of Europe for the time being… ;o) Read the rest of this entry »

Time again for our little informal announcement about the integration of country subdivisions into the belodged.com database, which allow our members to ease their search for appropriate accommodation

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