From a remote mountain village in Romania to one of Gran Canarias most popular new Cafe´s in the heart of Playa del Ingles called Cafe Florin.
This is the success storey of Florin Balan who is still under 30 years. A wise head, he´s better know for his heart though, both of which contribute to a new cafe surviving in these difficult times and the fastest growing Web sites in the famous
Canary Islands
We will soon be starting our third year at Cafe Florin, it´s hard work to grow the business but we never loose faith in each other and grow stronger ties in the hearts of those who have been lucky enough to visit this special part of the world.
A breakdown of some of the stats for 2009
Currently our Web sites have over 21,000 views each month and this site (running for 16 months has seen over 10,000 page views each month in peak seasons.
Some Stats
Over 2650 people have made 12500 telephone calls to 31 nations using our ultra low cost Cafe telephones.
Initial estimates for the Wifi network are just over 9000 seperate user sessions with an average bandwidth consumption of 350GB/month , that´s just under 4 Tera bytes for the year 2009
Florin has a walking impedement which makes his hard work and this storey even more impressive.
He is an inspiration to anyone who thinks they have troubles but not just because of his attitude to his problem, which is an example to all; more because of his energy for life and affectionste character, as the Spanish say, he´s very "dulce" which translates to sweet in English.
This is a highly biased column from his Novio, and devoted fan John.
