The NYT’s Frugal Traveler, Matt Gross, continues his thrifty jaunt through the summer that started a month back in Lisbon. This week’s installment finds him in Albania.

The NYT is in a very literary-travel mood these days: first, there was last weekend’s decidedly bookish section, then yesterday, the debut of Matt Gross’ new series “Around the World in 90 days.�?

CN Traveler’s got a new blog over at Concierge.com. They’ve assigned Canadian food and travel writer Mark Schatzker to go around the world in 80 days

From 2002-2003 Chicagoan Mike Pugh trotted the globe and posted writing, photos and video of travels on the very nicely designed blog Vagabonding.com (no relation to Rolf Pott’s book, or site).

In honor of the coming New Year, the jet-setting folks at Condé Nast Traveler have rounded up a list of how 12:00 am, January 1 will be met in nine different places around the globe.

The duo behind BigTripProductions’ videos aren’t kidding with the “Big Trip” part. Otherwise known as Kevin Allgood and Valerie Marshall, they’re currently on a one-year, round-the-world journey that they’re filming and blogging along the way.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 12/24/06

For your pre-weekend entertainment: ostrich riding and racing in Oudtshoorn, South Africa, ostrich capital of the world.

On a round-the-world jaunt, foodie documentarian Liz Morrison was dismayed by the number of American fast-food franchises that she discovered crapping up foreign locales

UK-based writer Rachael Glazier decided to put her green beliefs into some extreme practice this month. Looking for an alternative to carbon-belching jumbo jets for a long-haul trip, she opted to travel from London to Hong Kong, by train.

In May 2004, Jono Lewarne and a childhood friend set out from the UK for a 12-month round-the-world trip. Little did he know, then, that it would turn into an odyssey that would run through April 2006.