While Boeing and Airbus scramble to make larger, more luxurious planes, others are pushing the envelope in different directions, attempting to find ways to make them more energy efficient and environmentally friendly. Take the Solar Impulse for instance. This plane is ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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While Boeing and Airbus scramble to make larger, more luxurious planes, others are pushing the envelope in different directions, attempting to find ways to make them more energy efficient and environmentally friendly. Take the Solar Impulse for instance. This plane is ...List of World Heritage Sites grows by 13
The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee just wrapped up its 33rd annual conference in Seville, Spain, where they added 13 new sites to their list of amazing locations around the globe, and made the unusual move of ...15 Great Mountain Vacations
The U.K. based online magazine Wide World launched at the beginning of May, and is already building a library of good content for adventure travelers and outdoor enthusiasts. The articles vary greatly in subject matter and include an interview with free diver Sara Campbell, ...Negotiating the "morning after" at Balmer's
I laughed out loud at Terry Ward's observations over at World Hum of young Americans awkwardly negotiating the "morning after" scene at Balmer's Herberge in Interlaken, Switzerland. Laughed, because when I was a 21-year-old college student on a study abroad trip, Balmer's ...Swiss vacations about to increase?
It looks like the Swiss won't have to worry about how to look busy while they're on vacation. If a referendum by Swiss citizens passes, the current standard of four vacation weeks a year may increase by 50 percent. The measure was good enough to pick up 125,000 signatures, ...Classic Treks: The Haute Route
There is a misconception that all of the great treks of the world involve backpackers roughing it in remote backcountry in a distant third world country. While those treks do hold a certain appeal, there are plenty of other great hikes that don't require that you give up all ...Swiss say no to naked hikers in the Alps
Voters in the Swiss Canton of Appenzell Inner Rhodes got to have their say in a proposal put together to ban naked hikers in their region of the Alps. The (primarily German) hikers had been prancing through the Alps without any clothes, much to the chagrin of the residents. ...Photo of the Day (4.19.09)
Welcome back, sun! It's been awhile, hasn't it? Flickr user HazardousPaste could not have had better timing for this sun-drenched nature shot. The color contrasts here are fantastic - the warm yellows of the sunflower and crisp blues of the sky complement one another ...Bargain Europe: Camping Across The Continent
In these economic times we're all looking to find ways to save a little cash without giving up our travels. Airfares are more affordable than they have been in a long time, which means that we can at least afford to get to the places we want to visit. But what happens once ...Snowboarder Twitters For Rescue
The "micro-blogging" phenomenon known as Twitter has captured the attention of many, while confounding others. In a nutshell, the service allows users to send out brief messages to friends, known as "Followers" in twitter-speak, sharing news and information or simply the ...Five Places To See Before Climate Change Ruins Them Forever
CNN.com has an interesting article naming the five places that everyone should see before they are forever altered by climate change, which is already having an indelible effect on our planet. This list was compiled by Bob Henson, the author of The Rough Guide To Climate ...Amazing Race 14: Recap 1, Swiss cheese is heavy
When the teams took off for Switzerland from the Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos, California after the Marine helicopter ride that took them there, you could feel the buoyancy and hear their glee. No matter the season, every team has a real can-do attitude at the ...Amazing Race 14 starts tonight
What already? Wasn't it last week when my least favorite team Starr and Nick dashed across the finish line to win the million dollars? Nope. The end of Amazing Race 13 was in December. Tonight, Amazing Race 14 begins on CBS at 8:00 EST.
From a quick glance, I have two ...Too cheap for a hotel? How about a wine barrel?
We've covered weird and wacky hotels here on Gadling, but this is the first wine barrel bedroom I've come across. The "room" is one of several converted wine barrels at the Madulain camping site in the mountain village of Madulain in Switzerland. Each room comes with ...Want to hike in the nude? Don't go to Switzerland. It's now a no no.
In Switzerland shedding clothes and hitting the trail used to be fine and dandy. Nude hiking was allowed. Not any more. That fun has ended. In a move to protect children from seeing those body parts usually located in places where the sun doesn't shine, the Swiss government ...Indulge in Romance at Badrutt's Palace
Skip out on the usual box of candy and fistful of roses plopped on the kitchen table and do something interesting for a change. This year, kick around a seven-night ski trip to Badrutt's Palace in St. Moritz for Valentine's Day. Doesn't Switzerland sound better than another ...iPod Saves Lost Tourists
Two men, one a skier the other a snowboarder, were lost in the Swiss Alps earlier this week after leaving marked runs at the ski resort of Savognin. They faced a long, cold night outdoors, but were later rescued by an eagle-eyed SAR team who spotted them from the air thanks ...Zero Star Hotel opens in Switzerland fallout shelter
Oh, Switzerland. In a subterranean fallout shelter in Sevelen, Switzerland, the Null Stern Hotel, biliing itself as "The World's First Zero Star Hotel" is preparing to open its crappy, crappy doors. "Null stern" actually means "zero star," which is a little relieving. ...When a nation becomes a commodity: The Country Brand Index 2008
We live in an era of global brands. McDonald's, Starbucks, H&M, Coca Cola, Australia... Wait, what??? You read correctly, Australia recently won the top spot of the 2008 Country Brand Index. Nation branding, as it's officially referred to, is the theory and practice of ...Raoul's travel adventures: The world through a pug's eyes
Raoul, the traveling pug may have a future as a dog travel consultant. "I love to travel, enjoy napping on anything wool or with down feathers, and I adore brussel sprouts!" he writes in his profile that also highlights his interests and favorite books.
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