Gadling Gear Review: Su...
Filed under: Arts and Culture , Gear , Podcasts , Gadling Gear Review One of the best things about carrying smartphones, tablets and laptops with us when we travel, is that we are also generally carrying our entire music libraries with us as well. The problem is, the speakers on those...Starwood Points Transfe...
MillionMileSecrets has a thorough (as always) post yesterday on how to acquire Hilton Hhonors points through credit card signups. (If you don’t feel like clicking over, just know there are a bunch of credit cards where you can get Hilton signup bonuses). He didn’t mention one...
Cisk Lager: The Worst B...
Filed under: Europe , Malta Is it possible that the world’s best beer is brewed in Malta, a nation of just 400,000 souls? There’s a bus driver named Steve in the Maltese capital of Valletta who is quite certain it is. I was chatting with Steve, a half-Maltese, half-English...
Carlisle Castle Celebra...
Filed under: History , Learning , Europe , United Kingdom One of England’s most besieged castles has turned the ripe old age of 1000 this year . A new exhibition at Carlisle Castle in Carlisle, England , tells its thousand-year history. Well, approximately a thousand years, since...Topic of the Week: Your...
Let’s go a little random this week. What’s the best food you’ve had on an airplane? What airline was it? Read the original post: Topic of the Week: Your Favorite Airplane...
The Last (and Best) Tra...
Friends, family and interested persons routinely ask me a lot of travel questions. I love travel, so answering them is easy, up until we get to the ‘secret’ part of the game. Invariably someone will ask me for my best-hidden bit of travel knowledge, which I obviously had been waiting...
Frozen in Time – Expl...
So here’s something strange about me: I love nature, I love being outside and enjoying the best that Mother Nature has to offer, but I’m not necessarily outdoorsy. What’s the difference you ask? Well, outdoorsy people can live in a tent, commune with nature and be happy. I like to...