Gadling

The chill hasn't quite crept into the air yet, but it's coming. We know it's coming. So, instead of waiting for the frost to form on your windshield, line up your next trip to the tropics now, and be ready to take off as soon as it starts to get ...

If you don't see yourself traveling to Sant Domingo, Dominican Republic anytime soon, you might want to check out this online museum, especially if you are a stone enthusiast. The Larimar Museum is the only one of its kind found in the Dominican ...

On April 23rd, the Conch Republic will officially celebrate its 25th Anniversary as a free nation. Okay, so the Conch Republic -- more commonly known as Key West -- isn't really a free nation, though they did make a much publicized attempt at ...

The battle for bankrupt airline Frontier is over. And no, it isn't Southwest airlines that purchased them. During a bankruptcy auction, Republic Airways won, and will pay $108.75 million for the airline, adding them to their existing lineup of ...

I took this photo last week in Bohdalov, Czech Republic about 150km southeast of Prague. It was a glorious fall morning with fog rolling over the lakes. Clearly, it was not as much about my photography skills as it was about mother nature making a ...

UNESCO has just made the latest addition to its World Heritage List--Suleiman Mountain in the Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan. This is Kyrgyzstan's first World Heritage Site. The mountain has been a holy spot for thousands of years. Prehistoric ...

Thomas Tomczyk is serious about motorcycles. He's done three motorcycle trips across India, from the steamy southern tip all the way up to the frozen highlands of Ladakh. Now he's starting his childhood dream--an epic trip 12,500 miles (20,000 km) ...

There is almost nothing in life Czechs love more than their beer. Sure, they've got great tennis and hockey players and some fine authors, but when it comes right down to it, the Czechs are far more passionate about the beer their country brews, than ...

The Czech Republic is one of 13 countries trying to renegotiate its visa-requirement for traveling to the US. Currently, Americans do not need visa when traveling to the C.R. but Czechs do when traveling to the US. The unfair visa requirement is a ...

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 ...

People who come to Eastern Europe (or East Central Europe--as those who like to remove themselves from any association with Russia--call Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic now) often wonder why even if they are in the EU, they can't use euros ...

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 ...

I'm not sure what it is about small countries that makes me so interested in them. Maybe it's the fact that they seem so manageable, so knowable. I could spend the next five years in, say, China, and still feel like I hadn't seen a fraction of what ...

Well done neil_metblogs. You covered absolutely all the bases to give a correct answer. The "Rock Towns" of Adršpach and Teplice in Northern Bohemia aren't as well known as the similar sandstone formations further west in the Cesky Raj region ...