I don't know about you guys, but this Friday feels like a much needed one. It's been quite a week, especially with all of the revolutionary news from the Middle East and the world in general! My parents are embarking on their own month-long globe trot, so I hope they have ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Gadlinks for Friday 6.19.09
I don't know about you guys, but this Friday feels like a much needed one. It's been quite a week, especially with all of the revolutionary news from the Middle East and the world in general! My parents are embarking on their own month-long globe trot, so I hope they have ...Photo of the Day (2.7.09)
I've been to Alaska twice and not once did I see the northern lights. Maybe it was the wrong season or maybe I wasn't looking hard enough, but I'm sure when I do see them (and I will) I won't forget the sight. That's what one of our dedicated and intrepid adventuring ...Learn Norwegian in an hour
Misleading headline? Well, I just came upon a wonderfully detailed post arguing that Norwegian is the easiest language for English-speakers, to learn. This followed up on an equally fresh post from last week in which the poster explained why Persian/Farsi (two languages for ...Pronunciation error costs Spanish couple over $5,000
Whack me but I found this funny more than anything else: A Spanish couple traveling in Norway wanted to go to Olden to catch a cruise they had left to sort out some health issues. Traveling by taxi, due to a mispronunciation of their destination, the taxi driver took them to ...Controversy over Scandinavian ban on sexist advertising
Scandinavia is known for being liberal; universal health care, government funded secondary education and open immigration policies are the first things that come to mind when thinking about Denmark, Norway and Sweden. But when it comes to advertising, the Scandinavian ...King unveils largest cultural center built in Norway in 700 years
Is Norway planning to surpass Australia as the country with the "coolest opera building on the water"? Could be.
Norway's King Harald V has just opened a $835 million white marble Opera House on the shore of the Oslo Fjord in the heart of the capital, BBC reports. From the ...The world prepares for doomsday
As we work on trying to save our planet, it is disturbing to realize that we are also preparing for the ultimate global catastrophe. A "doomsday vault" -- which is a bombproof shelter dug into a mountain on a Norwegian island in the Arctic Ocean -- has been built to store ...Straight-up Scandinavia: Learning the language of IKEA
I find that either you love IKEA or you hate it; you can probably ascertain my own leanings by the fact that I am writing this article. Coming from a Scandinavian family, we have friends who used to have stuff shipped from Sweden to the US before the store made its American ...Straight-up Scandinavia: Reindeer and a national holiday up north
In the far north of Sweden lies Lapland, a place known for snow, the summer midnight sun, and lots reindeer. This is the land of the Sami people and today, February 6th, marks the yearly, festive celebration of their national holiday. An indigenous group of northern Europe, ...33-year old Czech woman is a 13-year old boy in Norway
If there is anything to learn from this truly bizarre case, it should be "do not overestimate cultural differences."
Barbora Skrlova, 33, duped Norwegian police, classmates, child care workers and teachers for four months into believing she was a teenage boy named "Adam". ...10 of the 53 places to go in 2008
I already mentioned Detroit as being number 40 on the list of the New York Times places to go in 2008. Sad to say, I have only been to the airport in Detroit. After posting about this city, I agree that the capital of the automobile and Motown is indeed a place to see this ...The World's Best Places to Live
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Finland was recently named the best place in the world to live, thanks largely to great air and water quality, low rates of infant diseases, and protection from water pollution and natural disasters. What else is great about Finland? Well, for starters, Finland ...
...Climate-change Tourism: Warming Planet Unveils New Tourist Destinations
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"Climate-change tourism" is something we're going to be hearing a lot more about in the near future. In fact, it's already here in some parts of the world. What is climate-change tourism exactly? That's when a traditionally frozen arctic wasteland like Greenland suddenly ...Photo of the Day (6/12/2007)
When I headed up to Norway recently, I was briefly excited about having the opportunity to see the Northern Lights. Then, of course, I remembered that it was the wrong season for that and rather than darkness, the skies would pretty much be light through the night. Sigh. ...Photo of the Day (6/3/2007)
I got back from Norway a few days ago and have a gazillion photos to sort through. I'll also be posting a series of dispatches on the trip in a few days (have you seen how many other dispatches have been running? Man, people have been doing a LOT of traveling). Anyway, for ...World Heritage Sights Rated
My wife and I are planning our upcoming trip to Norway and we're trying to decide whether it's worth the effort to take a boat called the Coastal Steamer up to the Western Fjords...places with pretty much unpronounceable (and unspellable) names like Geirangerfjord and ...World's Most Expensive Cities
According to a recent study by The Economist, the World's Ten Most Expensive Cities are:
Oslo
Paris
Copenhagen
London
Tokyo
Osaka Kobe
Reykjavik
Zurich
Frankfurt
...Amazing Views of Norway at the Aurland Lookout
At first glance I thought this was the Grand Canyon Skywalk we've written about before, but this is much cooler, I think. It's the Aurland Lookout in Aurland, Norway. True Scandinavian design -- think IKEA tourism, with a dash of Tony Hawk thrown in. The design makes it ...Sleddog Vacations: A Winter Travel Adventure
Sometimes when one is looking for information on one topic, another topic appears. Such is what happened when I came across sleddog vacations. I wasn't actually looking for information on sleddog vacations. They hadn't occurred to me, but somehow with a click of a mouse, ...
