The Indian hillside resort is known worldwide for its exported beverage, but the surrounding region offers a taste of neighbouring Tibet, Tony Tharakan finds. Darjeeling, for many people, means tea, but the eponymous hill resort nestled in the...
It isn’t to everyone’s taste, and animal rights activists wish the custom would vanish entirely, but anyone who fancies eating foie gras – fattened goose liver – would have done well to be in the Hungarian capital this past month. November is when...
Big Smoke beats Big Apple for NYE
Following in the footsteps of royalty and statesmen, Kevin Pilley checks into a historic hotel opened by the famous designer’s husband.
Vienna Airport last week opened a modernised version of its Pier West and C-gates area. More than 9,500 square metres were refurbished and floors, walls, ceiling, lighting and furnishings were newly designed. The result is a more open, continuous...
Irish budget airline Ryanair has launched a New Year ski sale from Malta to Milan Bergamo, at fares starting from €22.99 for travel between January and March. There are dozens of ski resorts within a three-hour transfer of the north Italy city, as it...
Blackpool hotel to refund additional €125 charge after couple posted on TripAdvisor
Backpackers, sunseekers, business travellers and globetrotters will all feel at home in Sydney – a city so diverse that it is worth the long-haul flight. With its superb climate, wonderful beaches, excellent dining establishments, lively nightlife and...
Emirates operates three daily flights to Sydney from its Dubai hub, using a state-of-the-art fleet including its flagship A380. The airline is currently offering up to 20 per cent discounts on fares to travellers travelling from Malta to Australia. The...
Volunteering in Africa has a magnetic pull for Nicky Gouder, who spent time aiding deprived communities despite fears about Ebola and leprosy. Africa is a continent of profound diversity and mesmerising culture. Bound together by a sobering...
Mark Strijbosch is led astray by a collection of charming beers in Brussels
Five top snow sports resorts for partying nights away after fun on the slopes
Viorica Naudi steps into the past during her visit to the evocative Romanian region, full of history, architecture and tradition.
Malta will welcome 510,000 cruise passengers by the end of 2014, with 269 cruise calls by December, according to the tourism minister. Next year is set to beat that number with an expected 525,000 passengers from 270 calls from all cruise companies...
Free Wi-Fi on-board planes will become standard practice for future air travel, according to Emirates. More than half a million passengers have connected to the internet on its planes since the airline launched the in-flight service three years...
Manchester Airport has been crowned UK Airport of the Year. The airport beat competition from Heathrow, Gatwick and Birmingham to win the category for best airport with more than six million passengers a year. The industry award was given at the annual...
One of the ships in the MSC fleet will leave a shipyard bigger and better tomorrow after spending 11 weeks being refitted ahead of a one-off inaugural cruise. The MSC Armonia will sail out Fincantieri shipyard in Italy as the first vessel to complete...
Daniella Marchesi walks across the 11-metre by 1.8-metre wide glass floor 138 feet above the River Thames at Tower Bridge, London. Photos: John Stillwell/PA Visitors to one of Britain’s most famous bridges, in London, will get a better view of the...
A sharp drop in Russian visitors is sending an icy chill through Alpine ski resorts that have previously profited from free-spending eastern tourists. Moscow’s standoff with the West over Ukraine and a weakening economy, which has seen the rouble drop...
Can I borrow your socks, is the beach new or old and is Brighton where the tunnel to France starts? are just some of the odd questions customers have asked hotel staff. More unusual requests by people staying at Brighton’s two Travelodge hotels have...
Hidden away in a forest near Berlin lies a huge, abandoned Cold War-era bunker, built to withstand a nuclear attack, which enthusiasts hope can become a new magnet for tourists visiting former East Germany. The 7,750-square-metre, three-storey...
Thailand expects to receive around 25 million tourists this year, down a million on 2013, the government said last week, thanks in part to months of street protests in the capital that ended with a coup. Two unsolved murders of two young British...
Melanie Vella lives and treks in the Nepali mountains, taking pleasure from spending time in the slow lane.
In this series, international travel writers who visited the islands for a tourism initiative called Blog Island Malta reveal their top destinations.
As an EU national, you generally have the right to work for an employer or as a self-employed person in any EU country without a work permit. Some restrictions are in place for Croatian citizens in some countries, and for some EU citizens in...
Dinant has an odd claim to fame, finds Kevin Pilley.
Stephen Bailey joins a Queensland ‘mob’ to hunt crab for his dinner in a mangrove, have a go at traditional art and get better appreciation of Uluru. Trying his hand at an Aboriginal art class. “Keep stabbing the holes,” my Aboriginal guide shouts...
Two cruise fairs are being held in close succession, giving potential passengers the perfect opportunity to research and book trips for next year. The Cruise Fair, held at Magazino Cruise Terminal at the Valletta Waterfront, ends today after opening on...
Holiday friendships rarely last beyond the end of the trip, according to a survey of UK travellers. Some on a break even give fake phone numbers to avoid being pestered by their new-found friends once back home, the poll by Hotels.com found. Of 2,000...
Flyaway Tours has launched its brochure for winter 2014-15, offering mini breaks and packages to escape Malta’s chilly season. The company, which specialises in exhilarating vacations, has many mountain resorts available or can help customers flee the...
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