Viator Travel Blog

Our Guest Blogger at the Vatican Editor’s note: The following was written by guest blogger Dr. Carla Melchior. Dr. Melchior is an Italian living between Italy and the United States. She is the principal of Studio Melchior, a leading translation company, and a freelance writer. She is a cancer survivor and is active in fund-raising [...]

Good news: the stagehands strike that has shut down much of Broadway for the past few weeks has been resolved. That’s the news coming out of New York City this morning. According to several news outlets in New York, all shows will be up and running on their regular schedules in time for the evening [...]

There’s really no better gift than a Viator gift certificate, but let’s say that you just gave someone a travel gift certificate and can’t possibly regift that again. Then what should you buy for your favorite traveler this holiday season? Might I make a few unique and possibly frivolous suggestions? If nothing else, perhaps this [...]

Editor’s Note: These are the 3rd & 4th posts in a series from John “traveler, father & wit” Ryan. Somehow we forgot to publish John’s post from Bellingen, so we’re making up for lost time with today’s double-post. Have kid, will travel is John’s motto. Read his first post here. East Coast Australia Part 4: [...]

I arrived in Barcelona a fan of Gaudi and left with the relationship in tatters. I’m not sure what the turning point was. His erratic and changeable design? His perfectionism and the time it took him to do anything? The fact there were so many other people swooning around him? His unavailability? Barcelona’s Parc Guell [...]

Editor’s Note: The following blog post is by Don George from his recent trip to Kenya & Tanzania. Don, a pioneering travel writer and editor for 25 years, is the host and creator of the adventure travel web site Don’s Place and the editor of the literary travel magazine RECCE. MAASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE – [...]

The cathedral in Salta The biggest city in northern Argentina, Salta was my first real taste of the country when I arrived from neighbouring Bolivia last year. With decent nightlife, some beautifully preserved colonial architecture and a young population, this is a good place to spend a couple of lively days when you’re in Argentina. [...]

The Trans-Siberian, the Orient Express, the Royal Scotsman – just some of the world’s great train journeys. Even the names conjure expansive landscapes, crossed by shimmering steel horizons dividing the vast open spaces. Australia has several of its own romantic, adventurous rail adventures. And being some 4000kms across and 3000kms from top to bottom, rail [...]

I love bacon. My apologies to any vegetarian readers we may have just lost. Bacon is one of my favorite foods. I have personally made bacon pies, bacon ice cream, bacon waffles, bacon Halloween costumes (don’t ask) and bacon cocktails (seriously good: basically a white Russian with 1/4cup of well-cooked bacon tossed in a blender). [...]

Has Tasmania gone missing?? Imagine my shock when, arriving back at my New York hotel recently after purchasing a new pair of Merrell World Passport slip-ons, with the patented world map on the sole, I discovered that Tasmania, the place of my birth, does not exist in the Merrell world! Good gracious! I had been [...]