Malta
by Alex Robertson Textor (RSS feed) (11 days ago)
The world's ten smallest countries in terms of area fall into two general categories: European microstates (Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, San Marino, and the Vatican) and small island nations of the Indian Ocean, Pacific, and Caribbean (Maldives, Marshall Islands, Nauru, ...
by Dave Seminara (RSS feed) (1 month ago)
My journey into the U.S. Foreign Service started as a Colonel Muammar Gaddafi impersonator in a school auditorium near Buffalo, New York in 1986. I was taking part in an 8th grade Model U.N. assembly, and had been given the difficult brief of dressing up like a citizen of ...
by Meg Nesterov (RSS feed) (2 months ago)
This is the third in Knocked Up Abroad's guide to traveling with a baby. Before you go, see tips on planning travel and flying with a baby.
So you've decided to travel abroad with your new family addition, well done! You've chosen the best baby-friendly destination, ...
by Meg Nesterov (RSS feed) (3 months ago)
Let's get this out of the way: you can travel with a baby. Many new parents feel that once they have a child, their travel days are over, but many parents will tell you that the first six months are the easiest time to travel with a baby. Is it easy? Not exactly, but with ...
by Meg Nesterov (RSS feed) (3 months ago)
As my new baby girl was born in a foreign country, getting a passport was a necessity for her to even return home to America. Though Vera was born in Turkey, she's an American citizen by virtue of her parents' citizenship and entitled to a US passport. For Americans born ...
by Alex Robertson Textor (RSS feed) (4 months ago)
Gozo, as Meg Nesterov recently reported, is a spirited place. The smaller of the Republic of Malta's two main islands, the island also known as the Isle of Calypso provides the rustic antidote to big brother Malta's package holiday flash. There's a lot to do on Gozo. ...
by Alex Robertson Textor (RSS feed) (4 months ago)
What constitutes a good hotel experience? This question animates a certain subset of travel writing. It's just popped up for me again in light of the buzz around the launch of Ritz-Carlton's new marketing campaign. (Check out the campaign's quite captivating video.) "Let ...
by Meg Nesterov (RSS feed) (5 months ago)
I just returned from a week in the small island country of Malta. For our first trip with our nearly two-month old baby, we decided to rent a house outside the village of Xaghra on Malta's smaller island Gozo. Picking us up from the ferry, our landlady explained how the ...
by Meg Nesterov (RSS feed) (5 months ago)
I'm going to break with tradition with choosing a Photo of the Day from our Flickr pool and post a photo from on location. I'm currently traveling on the Mediterranean island of Gozo, Malta, staying outside the small town of Xagra (oh, the things we do to bring new ...
by Alex Robertson Textor (RSS feed) (6 months ago)
Two Gadling contributing writers are currently planning travel to Malta, so it's no surprise that the small Mediterranean island republic is on the brain. And it's also no surprise that, among the many striking images featured on Flickr's Gadling Group pool pages, my eye ...
by Alex Robertson Textor (RSS feed) (11 months ago)
Creative new use for border crossing posts at German/Austrian border.
In the late 1980s, an American spending a summer traveling across Europe with a Eurailpass would see his or her passport stamped possibly dozens of times. With a few exceptions, every time a border ...
by Chris Owen (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Large waves and heavy winds caused Royal Caribbean's 2,110-passenger Brilliance of the Seas to list heavily several times early Sunday.
Passengers, furniture, and pretty much anything not tied down went "flying back and forth" as the ship was tossed around by inclement ...
by Alex Robertson Textor (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Practical, how-to budget travel advice is indispensible. There's something particularly valuable about travel advice that opposes the emphasis on expensive hotels and other forms of high-end consumption that characterizes the contemporary travel media, perhaps especially in ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Castles make a pretty backdrop to any vacation. They conjure up images of brave knights and damsels in distress, but the reality was less romantic. Castles were fortifications built to defend important cities, ports, fords, or mountain passes. The best military minds in the ...
by Brett Atkinson (RSS feed) (4 years ago)
Gozo is the smaller island that makes up the tiny Mediterranean nation of Malta. This is a stunning natural arch called the "Azure Window" on Gozo's northern coast. The main island of Malta is fascinating but can feel crowded due to its concentrated population. Across on ...
by Adrienne Wilson (RSS feed) (5 years ago)
Malta isn't the sort of place I'd imagine one getting lost to the extreme or losing their way back for days on end, but not every human that walks or travels the planet is blessed with good sense or sense of direction. I'm pulling this selection from the Survival Maltese ...
by Adrienne Wilson (RSS feed) (5 years ago)
It's coming... The new year that is. As if you needed a daily reminder. Anyhow, here is a word you can cry out during those last hours if you should find Happy New Year a little too cliché. Today's word is a Maltese word used in Malta: caw - so long BBC Languages ...
by Adrienne Wilson (RSS feed) (5 years ago)
It's quite obvious Malta isn't one of our most blogged about places, but I do my best with this word feature to make sure it gets some of the action. However, I have been providing with you baby talk. It's time to rev up our language motors and really start talking Maltese. ...
by Adrienne Wilson (RSS feed) (5 years ago)
Here's a cool festival to check out if in Malta this time of year -The Farson's Great Beer Festival runs from July 28, 2006 - August 6, 2006 from 7:30 PM onwards in Ta'Qali Park. The event features folklore and music and is free of charge. Even if you're not into beer sounds ...
by Neil Woodburn (RSS feed) (5 years ago)
I'm not sure if it was the amazing color of the water that caught my attention, or the gangly jumping style of the kid launching himself into the air. Nonetheless, it remains one of those shots that makes sitting at work extraordinarily painful. Gaze deep into ...
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