Travel
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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...
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‘The world is not as big as it seems’
Name: James Micallef GrimaudAge: 33Occupation: Artist My best ever trip… This is a hard choice. Every trip I undertook left a positive impact on me and opened my eyes a bit further to the world. If I had to pick one destination, I guess Bermuda...
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New York’s record year
The famous ‘I love NY’ tourist T-shirts may have to be changed to ‘All 52 million of us love NY’. That’s how many people visited the Big Apple in 2012, setting a new record that broke the previous year’s milestone of 50 million. New York mayor...
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Louvre most visited again
The Louvre said recently its new Islamic art wing helped cement its position as the world’s most-visited museum with nearly 10 million visitors in 2012, over a million more than last year. The exact figures will be released early this month, but in...
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Dubai’s new A380 concourse opens
The world’s only dedicated and purpose-built A380 concourse at Dubai International Airport is now operational. Part of the airport’s Terminal 3 complex, Concourse A will become the ‘home of the Emirates A380’, from where passengers will connect to...
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Skipping the barge at Skipton
I had always fancied the idea of a canal barge holiday. I pictured myself boating through the rural backwaters of Britain, seated on a rustic deckchair with my feet on the barge board and a bottle of local ale in my hand, waving serenely to...
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Emirates says hello with special fares
Emirates is offering special Economy Class fares if booked until January 10 – for travel from January 18 to June 10. “With our excellent on board product and a long list of exciting destinations – from Buenos Aires and San Francisco in the west to...
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Longest high-speed rail line opens
China last Wednesday opened the world’s longest high-speed rail line that more than halves the time required to travel from the country’s capital in the north to Guangzhou, an economic hub in southern China. The opening of the 2,298-kilometre line...
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All-inclusive deals ‘most sought’
Far afield destinations expected to grow in popularity in the new year are Ecuador and New Zealand, according to a travel trends report by travel organisation Abta. Holidaymakers would also be looking for tried-and-tested places to take holidays,...
