Jan 28th, 2010 at 10:30AM:
Sometimes your travels take you around the world, to dangerous locales where you don't know the customs and need to always be on your guard to ensure your safety. And sometimes, they just take you to a visit with the in-laws, which can be equally awkward, confusing, and downright dangerous. Here are eight tips to help you survive a visit with you in-laws with your dignity, and your ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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8 tips for surviving a visit with the in-laws
Jan 28th, 2010 at 10:30AM:
Sometimes your travels take you around the world, to dangerous locales where you don't know the customs and need to always be on your guard to ensure your safety. And sometimes, they just take you to a visit with the in-laws, which can be equally awkward, confusing, and downright dangerous. Here are eight tips to help you survive a visit with you in-laws with your dignity, and your ...Gadling gift guide - family travel and kid friendly products
Dec 11th, 2009 at 8:30AM:
Long gone are the days when a kid could be kept entertained with a coloring book and 2 crayons. Of course, part of the higher demands from kids has something to do with the gadgets we adults surround ourselves with.
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In this Gadling gift guide, ...7 reasons to spend the holidays away from home
Dec 7th, 2009 at 10:30AM:
Christmas is traditionally a time for family, but it can also be the ideal time to travel. Who says you have to stay home for the holidays? Here are seven reasons to spend the holidays traveling.
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While the holiday season can be one of the most expensive times to ...New family friendly blog aims to make travel much easier
Oct 30th, 2009 at 2:00PM: This week, Hilton and their Homewood Suites brand unveiled SuiteTrip.com. The site is filled with family friendly travel tips and advice, and writers come from some of the best family travel sites on the web (you'll notice two familiar names if you regularly read Gadling). Other writers come from The Vacation Gals, Trekaroo and Travel Savvy Mom. For me (as a dad and a writer), it is refreshing to ...Help for lost cameras
Oct 20th, 2009 at 3:00PM: The folks over at Jaunted posted a story yesterday about a friendly-looking family who dropped their camera at some point while on a trip to Maui. A good Samaritan found the camera and posted one of the pics on Reddit last week, along with a plea for help in locating the family so that their camera could be returned.
According to HalogenLife, in a prime example of the power of social media, the ...Nativo Lodge offers New Mexico State Fair Package
Sep 12th, 2009 at 2:00PM: New Mexico's State Fair kicked off Friday and to celebrate, the Nativo Lodge is offering a special package. For $129 per night, families of up to four people will receive accommodations (with one king or two double beds), daily breakfast, four one-day passes to the Fair, and one parking pass.
The Nativo Lodge offers spacious rooms decorated with Native American touches. The property features a ...The Abbey Resort and Spa: Luxury on Lake Geneva
Sep 11th, 2009 at 10:30AM:
Billing itself as "the only full-service resort" on the shores of Lake Geneva in Wisconsin, The Abbey Resort and Spa is one of those places where you can almost feel the ghosts of the past whispering around you. The resort was completely renovated in 2005, but its timber A-frame and low-slung bungalow style buildings look much as they did when it was built nearly 50 years ago, when the ...Sleep on a bed made of hay at a German heuhotel
Sep 1st, 2009 at 2:00PM: It seems hay is not just for horses - it's also for sleeping on at hotels in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Heuhotels (heu means hay in German) are hotels housed in converted barns where guests bed down in sleeping bags in dorm rooms with layers of hay covering the floor.
The heuhotel Zum Alten Marstall, located near the Neckar Valley in Germany, sits at the foot of an 11th century castle and ...Dim Sum Dialogues: Family Business
Aug 14th, 2009 at 8:30AM: I arrive at the Houston Center of East Tsim Sha Tsui dripping in sweat - a product of the battle between Hong Kong's unforgiving humidity and my mild-weather Californian blood. I'm here to meet with 23-year-old Ray Lok, a mutual friend and aspiring businessman in Hong Kong. I hope that a quick breather in the air-conditioned lobby will help dry out my shirt, but within minutes I see him step out ...Economic consequences: travel with your family
Jun 28th, 2009 at 12:00PM: I guess there are some families that genuinely enjoy traveling together. Dozens of people buy out plenty of space in a motel – or line up a few cottages – and arrive in force for some good ol' fashioned family bonding time. I wouldn't do it (coordinating travel inside the immediate family is hard enough), but there's an element that will.
Take out the element that looks forward to a ...Who are the friendliest people in the world? Iranians
Feb 23rd, 2009 at 3:00PM: Who have you found to be the friendliest people in the world? According to Will Hide, the answer is Iranians. He and his female friend Annette toured Iran for 10 days where they met up with experiences I'd call delicious. Delicious food, delicious scenery, delicious things to see, and the type of hospitality where people invite you to tea all the live-long day.
As Hide says, everywhere they went ...Galley Gossip: A question about being a mother and a flight attendant
Jan 21st, 2009 at 9:30AM: Dear Heather,
I have one quick question for you... I am about to be a new mom (with a baby boy due in February) and I'm also a flight attendant. I love my job (people, travel, benefits... everything!) but I'm worried about how hard it's going to be for me to be a flight attendant and a mommy. Any tips? Varina
Dear Varina,
First I must congratulate you on being a new mom! It's the best job ...Who works harder? Aussies or Americans? What does this mean for tourism?
Jan 12th, 2009 at 2:00PM: In this article in the Sydney Morning Herald, Australians are touted as working the hardest out of people in the developed world.
Here are the statistics given to prove the point. In Australia:
Almost 60% of the people with full-time jobs don't take all of their four-week vacation time.
Years of this practice have many people with 8 weeks of unused time.
Corporate men ages 35-49 ...A Canadian in Beijing: Peking Duck
Jul 1st, 2007 at 9:34PM:
Well, my trip is rounding to a close and there have been several things on my "to do before I leave" list. Eating Peking Duck is not one of them, however, but here I am poised to write about it. No, I didn't eat any. Yes, I watched it get eaten. I heard the exclamations. I partook in the pancake portion. It was fun.
Even vegetarians can eat at a Peking Duck restaurant, I found.
My sister and ...A Canadian in Beijing: Hot Shots, Hot Pots & Distant Thoughts
May 16th, 2007 at 2:28AM:
On Sunday night, I had the great pleasure of having dinner with my cousin. Well, actually, he's the son of my Mother's cousin and so I suppose that means that we're second cousins, to be precise! He and his partner are on vacation and this was their last night in Beijing. We made plans for dinner and I solicited my friend Rui to come with me. Remember when I fell in love with the moped? Well, ...Cart a Kid
Sep 18th, 2006 at 10:09AM: Let us salute for a moment human ingenuity. Who would have thought you could take two of the most intractable problems of travel, luggage and kids, and put them together into one nice, handy package? Take a brief look at the handy-dandy Ride-On Carry-On, a kind of bizarre rolling luggage cum kid's chair that lets you get through airline terminals without having to fret about little Billy's ...Kid Travel Help
Jun 27th, 2006 at 8:03AM: Way back during April, April 1 to be exact, we posted about a fictional ,but much-needed device for airplanes called the Baby Cone of Silence .The idea is that babies (you know who you are!), while cute, and fun and adorable...are also head-achingly loud when they want to be. Now, I know how hard it can be to travel with kids, so I have sympathy. And more than that, I am here to offer a link to ...
