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Venice has broken a nine hundred year-old tradition by certifying its first female gondolier. The trade, normally handed down from father to son, recently opened up to everyone when the city of Venice introduced an official gondoliering course ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Venice has broken a nine hundred year-old tradition by certifying its first female gondolier. The trade, normally handed down from father to son, recently opened up to everyone when the city of Venice introduced an official gondoliering course ...18 unique travel experiences for the well traveled
So you think you've been everywhere and done everything? Is their something missing when you travel these days? Is the sense of adventure gone? Never fear, because the Times Online has compiled an interesting list of 18 unique travel experiences that are designed to give us ...Through the Gadling Lens: taking photographs at night
Recently, I received a note from a friend of mine who'd just returned from a vacation: I just returned from a vacation in which much of our activity was at night. I didn't carry a tripod, and I was dissatisfied with using either the auto setting on the camera (the flash ...Museum Junkie: Futurism at the Tate Modern
"Today we are founding Futurism, because we want to free our country from the smelly gangrene of its professors, archaeologists, tour guides and antiquarians."
On February 20, 1909, the front page of the Italian newspaper Le Figaro was taken up with the Manifesto of ...Italian border police snag $135 Billion in US bonds
Border police are always on the lookout for the next big catch. I'm sure every border cop dreams of being the next hero to arrest someone with a stash of drugs, or a ton of hidden cash. But I bet nothing prepared Italian border police for what they discovered earlier this ...Through the Gadling Lens: seeing the light
When you're first starting out in photography, you're likely to read, or hear, or have told to you: "See the light. When you can see the light, you'll be a great photographer. You just have to see the light." Many times, I've had new photographers retort with exasperation: ...Through the Gadling Lens: the latest, greatest shots from the Gadling Flickr pool
It's been a little over three months since the last time we waded through all the amazing images shared in our Gadling Flickr pool, and it seems like it's time to do so, again: after all, schools have closed (or are about to close) for the summer break all over the world, ...Heading to Palermo, Italy? Bring an air freshener!
This is not exactly a "photo of the day", but it is still an impressive destination photo, albeit a smelly one... The garbage men in the Sicilian capital of Palermo are on strike - and the photo above shows the results of just one week of no garbage pickup. The situation is ...American tourists return stolen Colloseum rock after 25 years
In an event bound to give American tourists a bad/worse name abroad, 2 Californian tourists have mailed back a chunk of the Colosseum they stole 25 years ago. They had the small rock in their souvenir collection, but claim they kept feeling guilty every time they saw it ...Gadling + BootsnAll - Picks of the Week (5.22.09)
Welcome back. Here we are again for Gadling's weekly roundup of links from the independent travel experts at BootsnAll. This week's links are custom-made to get your wanderlust racing and put you in the right travel mindset. So pull that suitcase out of the closet and start ...Travel Bookshelf: free guidebook to "Angels and Demons" Rome
Small press guidebook publisher Roaring Forties Press has released a free guidebook in downloadable PDF format titled Rome's Angels and Demons: The Insider's Guide to the Locations Featured in the Book and Movie. Author Angela K. Nickerson covers all the sites mentioned in ...Gadling + BootsnAll - Picks of the Week (5.15.09)
Welcome back to Gadling's weekly "Picks of the Week" feature, brought to you by our friends at travel website BootsnAll. How does it work? We input thousands of travel variables into the Gadling mainframe computer, and out comes five of the best and most interesting travel ...Ten Mountains For The Amateur Mountaineer
A lot of adventure travelers also happen to be armchair mountaineers. They follow the worlds top climbers as they make bold attempts on impossibly high and remote mountains in all corners of the globe, and they cheer them on as they stand at the top of the world. Many of ...The Westin does Angels & Demons in Rome
Come out of hiding, closet Dan Brown fans. Come out of hiding and get thee to The Westin Excelsior in Rome! In conjunction with the release of the new movie of Angels & Demons, The Westin Excelsior Rome (above) has partnered with Sony Pictures to create a lavish Angels ...Stinky London, Rude Paris, Romantic Venice
If you need a sense of authority to trust a publication, you can't do better than one from Australia. So, when the Sydney Morning Herald says that Brussels is boring, you have to believe it. Likewise, Paris is overrated, and the food sucks in London (duh).
Well, if you ...Photo of the Day (5.1.09)
I agree with one of the commentors on this flickr photo from TysonWilliams. This pic, taken from the platform in Florence's train station, is a "wicked vanishing point shot... nicely executed."
Admittedly, I had to think back to my sixth-grade art class to ...Create a custom experience at the Palazzo Sasson
It doesn't take much to make Italy enticing. The prospect of staying at the Palazzo Sasso in Ravello, though, will effectively deprive you of your free will. This twelfth century palace has the laudable goal of treating you to the same standard as its original ...Gadling + BootsnAll - Picks of the Week (4.24.09)
Welcome to Friday and another installment of our weekly content picks from travel partners BootsnAll. We reach into our "Gadling hat" and pick out 5 of the week's best travel stories at BootsnAll, covering topics ranging from religious monuments to food to old travel ...Top 10 wine spots, none in U.S.
I realize that, on the world stage, our homeland isn't exactly the most popular place right now. Part of it stems from eight years of political buffoonery, and a healthy dose comes from traditional "old world" bias against the United States. Like most of us, I've learned to ...Free entry to state museums during Italy's Culture Week, April 18-26
Talk about a place rich in culture and Italy will likely come to mind. There's a reason why so many people are drawn there, like bees to honey: art, architecture, fashion, design, food, just to name a few. If you're an Italophile, you might want to make the trip over from ...
