One of the best ways to visit Ghent is by water, aboard the  barge "Lys." "Floating Through Europe" offers this six-day round-trip barge excursion from Brussels. On the third day, you arrive in Ghent to spend the night and following morning. Passengers view the city's art treasures, tour old Ghent and shop. Late that afternoon, you cruise down the river Leie, and you're on your way to St. Martens-Latem, a village famous as the center of the Latem School of painters. (Ghent is located at the confluence of the  Rivers Schelde (Escaut) and Leie (Lys). The town itself is built on 100 islands!) The tour features a Sunday departure date and runs from late May through mid-October. Cost is $1450/person (based on double occupancy and excluding airfare to Brussels.) New York tour operator Annemarie Victory offers a deluxe gourmet tour to Belgium with a sidetrip to the Alsace wine region and the champagne region of France. This 13-day taste-bud extravaganza flies direct on Sabena to Brussels. On the fourth day, guests are bused over to Ghent for a half-day's walking tour, but as with the American Express package, the afternoon is spent in Bruges.

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Offshore Banks in Luxembourg - First Class Private Banking In The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg - Luxembourg is one of the fastest growing financial centers in the world and has seen a massive influx of capital in the last decade due to its liberal banking and tax laws. Although its secrecy laws only date back to the early 1980s, it has maintained a long tradition of banking confidentiality. Information will only be released to foreign governments if the depositor has been charged with a crime that is related to the account that is also a crime in Luxembourg. Note: If you have bounced from website to website looking for banks in Luxembourg doubtless you have become frustrated. Please note the following; all banks in Luxembourg use the designated domain .lu - If the bank, or website does not have an .lu domain it is not in Luxembourg. There are scores of websites (and banks) that try to give the illusion of being a resource or investment house related to Luxembourg. All the banks on this page have the .lu registry except three, for which we provide an explanation.

I Learned Asset Protection the Hard Way… - “If They Bust Your Doors Today, Seize All Your Assets, Are You Prepared Thoroughly To Start Over Clean – Somewhere Else? (If not, read this). Years ago, I learned about asset protection the hard way. I became embroiled in a minor dispute with a US government agency. They were wrong. I was right. No question about it. Back in those days, I had a sizeable business to run. Crack teams of accountants and lawyers were at my disposal… They would settle it, I thought. I wasn’t worried, so I didn’t give the matter much attention. One day I refused to take a phone call, and had my secretary refer some squeaky-voiced government guy to our accountants. Big mistake! Soon after that, I found all my bank accounts frozen and my checks started bouncing, left, right and center. Business came to an end, just like that. I had to fire my employees. With my income cut off, I ended up in jail because I couldn’t make court-mandated maintenance payments to my 3 ex-wives.

Opportunities in Default, Deflation and Depression - Demographics and the Lost Decade Ahead: The Opportunities in Alternative Investment and Living Strategies North America and Europe Follow Japan’s Long Slowdown. The stock markets have been rallying since the worldwide crash of 2008/early 2009. They assume that central banks will be able to re-stimulate the leading economies in the world as they have consistently since the mid-1970s. But we have been warning that this downturn is different. The largest generation in history, the Baby Boom, is peaking in their long spending cycle since the early 1980s and will be predictably shifting towards savings in the decade ahead. The next generation, the Echo Boom, is just entering the workforce and will not be able to counteract the Baby Boom’s long decline at first. And they will have more conservative attitudes about spending and borrowing after seeing the greatest credit and real estate bubble in modern history.

Crème of the Crop: The Best Foreign Hospitals, by Country - “Finding the right doctor is more important than finding the right hospital,” said Rupak, “our company is not hospital centric; it’s doctor centric. A building doesn’t cure a person; a doctor does.”  “We focus on hospitals that attract the best doctors,” explains Rupak. “we’ve visited every single hospital and met with the doctors personally; interviewing them and doing peer reviews and background checks. I was frankly surprised, when researching for stats comparing the quality of health care by country, that I found no such statistics at the usual respected sources such as the Kaiser Foundation. “There really isn’t that kind of data available in published form, but we’re going to do it ourselves,” said Rupak, “It’s a legal challenge. Some of these hospitals have given us data, but it’s for internal consumption only and we can only share it with individual patients, but we can’t publish it.”

How to Buy Your Dream Home Abroad - Buying a property in the UK, as some friends of mine are finding, can be a nightmare. First big hurdle is getting a mortgage. Gone are the days of 100% loan-to-value deals and lax income stipulations. Shaken to their boots by the credit crunch and its aftermath, banks nowadays are exceedingly loath to lend money, except under the most favorable of circumstances. Assuming you can get finance, next challenge is to find somewhere to live within your budget. That is not always easy, since the shortage of suitable development space in the UK means there is insufficient construction to create the housing stock needed to meet demand. After that comes the survey, a standard part of the process in Britain. So many times people think they have found just what they are looking for, only to have a property survey completed and discover it is suffering from rising damp or subsidence. Back to the drawing board. Having found somewhere you like and can afford, there then comes the tortuous process of completing the sales chain.

How to Free Yourself from 9-5 and Live Anywhere - Just the other day, a friend of mine finally asked the question that’s probably burning in the minds of most of my friends: “I don’t get it.” she began, “how can you afford to just pick up and travel around for months on end?”  How do you make money and how can I have your lifestyle?”  She works as a postal carrier and dreads every day of it. “It’s not that I don’t work,” I explained, “it’s just that I only choose to do the type of work that is portable and mobile.  I also look for ways to integrate my travels into money-making ventures which is not as difficult as you think”. She was listening intently so I continued, “There are three realizations you have to make to achieve a mobile lifestyle like mine. The first is to realize that real change starts within you and depends entirely on the choices and decisions you make. The second is to limit your work efforts to something that can be done from anywhere.  The third is that while our “developed” economies stagnate, the rest of the world is booming and there are plenty of opportunities outside your home borders.”

America has become a monster and you are its next meal… -  There was an old (now) song by Steppenwolfe of this name, i.e., “America the Monster” and as I began to consider the nature of this country’s government …well, it seemed appropriate. That said, America has become a monster. Like Goya’s mythical portrait it devours its own children, 1 in 100 are convicts, education becomes more and more expensive and thus exclusive, employment becomes scarcer and less well paid, ”social safety net programs” expand, without solving the problems, and it feels free to lay waste whatever sections of the world it desires to . Been in Iraq for almost a decade and show no signs of leaving Afghanistan. Not to mention the “bill” for all this. Ah, the “bill”. Well, the Government doesn’t have to worry about that, does it? After all that part of the fun and games will be delivered to us, you and me…and our great grandchildren. And such a bill! No one can even guess what it will come to – no one. But some of us will pay it. Of course, it won’t be called “the bill”. Oh no. It will be called Taxes. Increased taxes? Devalued currency? The joys of having an unaccountable monster in charge of our futures!

Gothic Ghent: Travels In Belgium -  I had never seen a real guillotine before, but here, in the Museum of Torture in the too aptly named Castle of the Counts, was a real, live, working model. And, ghoul that I am, I was fascinated. Circling the beast, I checked out the weight of the heavy, rust-pitted blade, noting how ingeniously it had been cut on a  bias to better perform its grisly work. I checked out the leather straps for constraining victims and noted how, over the  centuries, the blade guides had been worn smooth in the service of king and country. No doubt about it, I thought with a shudder, backing away, "gothic" Ghent looked to have been a light-hearted, "party" kind of place. (It was about then that I made the mental note to avoid over-parking.) The rest of the museum held similar delights – thumb screws and racks; spiked iron collars and branding irons – until  finally, in one corner, I arrived at the piece de resistance of the entire collection – a long-handled pitchfork for keeping "back-sliding" heretics in the flames. Back out in the warm sun of the city square (Sint Veerleplein), away from the damp, granite walls of the counts' dark dungeon, I shivered again. The Tower of London was like Club Med compared to that place!

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