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The latest issue of National Geographic Adventure has just hit the newsstand with a special treat inside for adventure travelers looking for their next big trip. The magazine has listed its selection for the 25 best new trips for 2010, offering up suggestions of places to ...Photo of the Day (7.07.09)
We get a lot of spam email at Gadling, but the worst perpitrator is this place called Hotel Spirit, a random hotel in Bratislava, Slovakia that wont stop sending us emails every day or two. All of them say the same thing: Cheap accommodation in attractive avant-garde hotel ...Newest "St. Pauli Girl" wins popular vote
Katarina Van Derham is the newest St. Pauli Girl spokesmodel. Unlike her predecessors, the latest to carry this honor won through an online election. The people have spoken, and Van Derham will bring them their beer! The election was conducted via Maxim.com and consisted of ...Photo of the Day (9-24-08)
I picked this photo because it encapsulates the very points that makes travel so incredibly interesting. It's those details that make you shake your head and say, "What were they thinking?" And you have no idea what they were thinking because people don't always think ...Michael Palin's travel series "The New Europe" starts Monday
This coming Monday Michael Palin's new seven-show travel series, "The New Europe" starts on The Travel Channel. He's taking the TV audience through "post communist" Europe to highlight the natural beauty, history and culture of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Hungary, and ...If I have a layover in Beijing, have I "been to" China?
In his "Ask the Pilot" column over at Salon, Patrick Smith has an article of interest to every traveler who has ever wondered, in this age of layovers and transcontinental bus trips, so how many countries have I visited? What constitutes "visiting" a country? If I'm flying ...Mushroom Pickers Unite!
Well, it's that time of year again in the Czech Republic. Time for those atavistic hunter-gatherer instincts to be unleashed. Thousands of Europeans with crazed looks in their darting eyes, trembling fingers clutching baskets, socks rolled over their pant legs (ticks!), ...Savvy Traveler: Let Czechoslovakia Die, Please
It has been 14 painful years for me since Czechoslovakia broke up in what they called a "Velvet Divorce". Not so velvet for me.
Since January 1, 1993, I have been trying to patiently teach everyone outside the country to learn to love the sound of "Czech Republic" and ...Slovenia's Mini-Riviera
With all the publicity the coast of Croatia has been getting lately, it makes you wonder why not many people talk about the coast of Slovenia. Perhaps because it is only 46km (not quite 30 miles) long? Croatia, on the other hand, has over 200 miles of coastline. Somebody got ...Whogoslavia Means Traveling with Kids
How many folks have heard, "Travel now before you have kids?" When I didn't have kids and I was traveling it was, "It is good you're traveling now before you have kids" as if once I had kids, I'd park myself in a chair somewhere to do what, I don't know. I always figured as ...For the Perfect Pilsner, Try Plzen.
Willy's post about the best places to drink beer in Eastern Europe reminded me of my trip to Plzen (Pilsner) in what is current day The Czech Republic. This town is the reason why there is Pilsner beer. The name of the town is where Pilsner got its name and is still a fine ...Hostel II: More Bad PR For Slovakia
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Movies, for the most part, are free publicity for the tourist board of any country featured on the big screen: People see the movie and want to visit the country.
But what happens when the plot of the movie involves backpackers who are kidnapped for the sport of torture, ...Red Corner: Slovak Mountains
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I've often wondered if I've actually been to Slovakia. I visited the region while it was part of Czechoslovakia but haven't had the chance to go back once it became its own country.
I did like what I saw when it was part of Czechoslovakia, however.
For example, Slovakia ...Flights within Europe for $50
At one point, Europe had more than one hundred budget airlines. Not all of them made it through the turbulent few years, but those who remained (some fifty) are pretty solid. You know the spiel - you can book one-way tickets without penalty, there is no free food on board, ...Real Fishermen--Carpe Diem
Neil's post about goulash reminded me of another controversial Czech specialty - fried carp. Don't make that disgusted face! Carp can actually taste good, if prepared properly.
Europe has a fascinating history of fish farming, or aquaculture, dating back to the Middle ...Red Corner: The Blue Danube
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While I'm not a big fan of big ocean going cruises, there is something entirely different about boarding a much smaller boat and cruising down a river-especially when it's the Danube.
David Wickers of The Sunday Times (UK) recently spent a week leisurely touring the ...Red Corner: Slovakia's Capital
Trivia question: From what Eastern European city did Steve Martin and Dan Ackroyd's "Two wild and crazy guys," originate from? "We are from Brat-is-lava," was what Jorge and Yortuk Festrunk so often chimed in their silly faux-Slavic accent. At the time of the old Saturday ...Bratislava Parties - WP Video
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such a satisfying thing (as a video producer) to see so much more fine video making its way to the Web. Remember the
days when any documentary video you saw tended to be repurposed stuff from Television? Now, we're seeing so much more
quality story-telling coming out ...Red Corner: Slovakia's Snowman Spa Service
Based merely on the word's Greek roots, cryotherapy doesn't sound like very much fun.
Perhaps you've heard of cryogenics, which shares the same Greek root, cryo, meaning "cold." This is where they freeze the recent dead in liquid nitrogen with hopes of bringing them back ...Red Corner: Andy Warhol's Slovakian Museum
Today, February 22, marks the 19th anniversary of artist Andy Warhol's death in 1987. For those of you who are big fans of Warhol, really really big fans, you might want to consider a trip to Medzilaborce, Slovakia to honor his passing.
Where?!?!?
Medzilaborce is a small ...
