Travel
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Westin takes top honours
The Westin Dragonara Resort in St Julian’s has taken three of the top honours in the 2013 Trip Advisor Travellers’ Choice Award. It placed first in the Top 25 Hotels in Malta, the Top 25 Hotels for Service in Malta and the Top 10 Luxury hotels in...
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Il-Bizzilla – Air Malta’s new in-flight magazine
The New Year has brought a new Air Malta in-flight magazine – Il-Bizzilla. The new monthly magazine has been redesigned to reflect the airline’s new vision and identity of ‘Flying the pride of Malta’. Philip Saunders, Air Malta’s chief commercial...
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Easyjet’s strong start to ski season
Low-cost airline Easyjet said it expects lower half-year losses after a strong start to the ski season and record numbers of business travellers. The Luton-based carrier last month achieved the milestone of flying 10 million business passengers...
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Frescoes discovered at Rome’s Colosseum
The 2,000-year old arena, where gladiators fought bloody battles for the entertainment of crowds, originally looked far different from the stone ring that has become one of the symbols of Rome. Working in a passage closed to the public for decades,...
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‘Only Antarctica has remained out of reach’
Name: Nicky Darmanin DemajoAge: 28Occupation: Manager at Luxol Sports Club My best ever trip… Turns out life really does work in mysterious ways. Through some unplanned encounters, and unforeseen circumstances, I found myself travelling around...
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Ryanair sees passenger growth slowing in 2013
Ryanair, Europe’s biggest low-cost airline, expects passenger growth to slow in 2013 as it cuts back on short-distance flights in some markets due to higher airport fees, its chief executive told Reuters last Tuesday. “I think the growth will be...
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Visit Rio de Janeiro with Emirates
Every year Brazil welcomes millions of tourists and it is said that Rio de Janeiro is the most visited city in the southern hemisphere. As Rio will be hosting the 2014 Fifa World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, the city is already quickly...
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More delays for Berlin airport
Berlin’s delay-hit international airport is not likely to open until 2015, the airport’s technical chief was quoted as saying on Wednesday, more than three years later than original plans envisaged for what was meant as the capital’s flagship...
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‘Dream gap year’ is up for grabs
Havana Club is offering one person the chance to experience a dream gap year at its expense. The winner will go on the “journey of a lifetime” to 12 different countries in 12 months, starting in the Cuban capital Havana. Havana Club is searching for...
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Five-star Rome deals
ROCS Travel is offering reduced Rome packages to mark the renewal of its contract with the five-star La Griffe Luxury Hotel. Situated on Via Nazionale in the heart of the Eternal City, La Griffe promises luxury and comfort. Packages start from €199...
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Your New Year travel resolutions
New year, new you! It’s the same slogan every year – and how wonderfully exciting it is too. But now that we’re already a couple of weeks into January, how are you doing? Have you managed to keep that date with the gym, for instance? And have you...
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Olympics enhance the UK’s image
Britain’s standing as a country where tourists are welcome has been enhanced by last year’s Olympic Games in London, it has been revealed. Britain, the second most popular destination for Maltese travellers after Italy, is also rated more highly for...
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Airlines for best in-flight food revealed
Pegasus Airlines, SAS and KLM have been rated as the best airlines in Europe for on-board food in Skyscanner’s annual European Airline Food Awards. Over 550 European travellers and bloggers took part as food critics in flight comparison site...
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‘I wish that moment had lasted forever’
Name: Christopher MintoffAge: 26Occupation: Architect and civil engineer My best ever trip... Always the last one I’ve been on. Every time I come back from abroad I am reeling with nostalgia up until my next trip. Yet the most impressive trip by...
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Skiing contest for Maltese in Austria
What is being billed as the first Maltese skiing championship will be held in Bad Hofgastein, Austria, in mid-March. Situated in the district of St Johann im Pongau, in the state of Salzburg, Bad Hofgastein has 250 kilometres of pistes that rise as...
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Top 5 honeymoon ideas
Stressed about your Big Day and can’t decide on a ‘just-married’ destination to suit both you and your spouse-to-be? Take a deep breath and let Giselle McKenna guide you through some great options. Nowadays the honeymoon is rarely the first trip...
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Silent giants of the Serengeti
The Serengeti. A name that sounds fictitious, invented by National Geographic to sell satellite subscriptions, or created by the imagination of Disney. Nobody even attempted to make it look believable, with aerial shots of a million wildebeest,...
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‘I cringe when I think of the ox balls I tasted’
Name: Chiara HyzlerAge: 26Occupation: Marketing executive, actress, director My best ever trip… All my trips have had something in them that makes them special and memorable but I will have to say my most recent trip to Nakuru, Kenya, was the best.
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Emirates expands in southeast Asia
Emirates has introduced a fifth daily, non-stop service between Dubai and the Thai capital Bangkok as it continues its expansion in southeast Asia. The announcement came just weeks after it launched a daily service between Dubai and the island of...
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Giving Vienna a whirl
The Austrians claim they can teach anyone and anything to dance. They can teach Lippanzer horses to dance the paso doble. So a congenitally uncoordinated and chronically clumsy couple with rudimentary arthritis should have presented few...
