Gadling

If you're going to walk around Reykjavik, Iceland, do it with Jonas Thorsteinsson. A guide on the GoEcco walking tour of the city, he knows more than which Viking killed who, where and how. In fact, the only word to describe Thorsteinsson is ...

If you think today's Swedish women are hot, take a look at their ancestors. New research shows that Viking women did in fact dress in a provocative manner. The historic Scandinavian beauties combined Nordic with oriental styles, adorning themselves ...

On Monday night I heard a story on CNN about the Viking ship made of popsicle sticks that recently set sail across IJesslmeer lake in the Netherlands. One of our sister sites, Engadget covered this story when the ship was first completed. The hope ...

Against the backdrop of a crispy clear afternoon in early September, I eagerly wait to see the historic Yale boathouse at the head of the Housatonic River in Derby, Connecticut, the training grounds for over 150 years of athletes, scholars, and ...

tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.gadling.com/2009/08/31/canadian-wine/'; tweetmeme_source = 'Gadling'; When you think of Canadian food products, wine doesn't exactly spring to mind. Back bacon and maple syrup, yeah, but wine? Mention Canadian wine and ...

It's been a tough year for Iceland. Thanks to foreign money, crazy lending and borrowing practices and a real estate bubble that amazed the world as it grew and when it popped, the small northern country has suffered severely through the global ...

In the quiet woods of New Hampshire, there lies a mystery. Strange monuments of stone are interspersed among the trees. Some look like squat houses, others like enclosures of some kind, and there's a large, flat stone with a channel cut around it ...

Give a listen to this somewhat old story about a crew of Icelanders who decided to sail across the ocean from their home to America some 1,000 years after their Viking ancestors made the same voyage. Ths is fascinating, ballsy stuff. They call their ...

I went to Flikr today and decided to look for a photo in Newfoundland. It was a place that came to mind today because…well, I'm not sure why. I suppose I was thinking of interesting places I'd like to visit. And maybe back there in my ...

The September issue of Conde Nast Traveler offers a list of literature that will hopefully whet your adventure appetite. The magazine is touting the list of books due out this fall as "new classics," although it includes Jack Kerouac's re-released On ...

It's been said that, during her recent interview with Katie Couric, Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin looked like "a high schooler trying to BS her way through a book report." Which, as one Time columnist points out, is "an insult to both high ...

Okay folks, yet another list.  You just can’t talk about travel without a top ten list of this or that. So today’s list comes from the Times (UK) and should be a real pleaser for some of you out there: The Greatest Parties on the ...

Fargo may not be the world's center for ragin' night life or amusement parks for the kiddies, but there is one place for both children and adults I recommend visiting if staying in the North Dakota town. However, depending on where you are in the ...

Since I skipped out on posting a book suggestion yesterday, I'll offer up two recommended reads for today. Consider it a Friday bonus, courtesy of NPR. A recent discussion about some of the year's most overlooked books included mention of two ...