Aug 2nd, 2012 at 10:00AM: USAID Foreign Service Officer David Thompson has lived in eight countries in the last 15 years and has visited countless others, but at 46, his adventures are far from over. He helped reconstruct homes in the immediate aftermath of the war in Bosnia, worked to restore democracy in Honduras after a coup, and has lived through attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul while serving there as the head of ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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A Traveler In The Foreign Service: A Globetrotting USAID FSO Serving in Afghanistan
Aug 2nd, 2012 at 10:00AM: USAID Foreign Service Officer David Thompson has lived in eight countries in the last 15 years and has visited countless others, but at 46, his adventures are far from over. He helped reconstruct homes in the immediate aftermath of the war in Bosnia, worked to restore democracy in Honduras after a coup, and has lived through attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul while serving there as the head of ...Are there lost pyramids in Bosnia? Probably not.
Jan 22nd, 2012 at 11:00AM:
For several years now, European archaeologists have been in a furor over a supposed lost civilization in Bosnia that built the biggest pyramids in the world. Scholars have dismissed the claims, made by Bosnian-American businessman Semir Osmanagic, as pseudoscience, yet he's getting funding from the Bosnian government and was just granted permission to excavate over the objections of the ...Photo of the Day - Bubbles in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Aug 25th, 2011 at 6:00PM:
As children, we are captivated by bubbles. A little soap and water and the reflections can be magical. Outside of the occasional bubble bath (and the delicious bubbles in sparkling wine!), we don't have many occasions to enjoy bubbles as adults. In today's photo by Flickr user Marko Musnjak, the little girl and her mother look equally mesmerized by the street seller's bubble toy. Taken at the ...Weekending: Sarajevo
Sep 15th, 2010 at 11:00AM:
Istanbul's unique position straddling two continents affords a lot of travel opportunities, with quick direct flights throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. As an American living in Turkey, I try to explore as often as I can, particularly to less-traveled destinations. While my last weekend trip was to Prague, for this trip, I ventured to another Eastern European capital with far fewer ...The top 8 tourist destinations of tomorrow
Dec 14th, 2009 at 12:00PM: The rapidly changing landscape of today's globalized economy means that countries are developing at breakneck pace. Yesterday's war zones are turning into tomorrow's tourist destinations at the blink of an eye, while today's utopias (see: Dubai) are disintegrating just as fast.
Need more convincing? Check out Hans Rosling's lecture on the rise of Asia over at TED.
Here at Gadling we have our ...Coming attractions: Tomorrow's next big destinations
Dec 2nd, 2009 at 8:00AM: Don't you wish that you would have gotten in on that vacation rental property in Barcelona before the Euro and the depreciated dollar? Or jumped in on that investment in Costa Rica before the cruise ships brought the Central American country to its tacky, souvenir-decorated knees?
Hindsight at 20/20 is a cruel, cruel mistress, and as one gleans the profits that savvy investors can make in an ...Coming attractions: Sarajevo
Dec 1st, 2009 at 8:00AM: The memory of the Yugoslav Wars is too fresh for many of us to think of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a tourist destination, but in the ten years since the conflict, the country and its capital city, Sarajevo have made enormous strides. Long gone are the days of ethnic conflict, strife and war crimes -- 2009's Sarajevo is a charming, cosmopolitan city surrounded by hills, cafés and culture.
...Not-so Dangerous Destinations
Nov 5th, 2009 at 2:00PM: "You're going where?!" my father asked when I told him of my plans to go to Colombia. The Colombia he knows of, the one from the 1980's, is filled with cocaine, street violence, and Pablo Escobar's thugs. The country's days as a dangerous destination are gone, but its stigma still remains.
Colombia isn't the only now-safe country still considered by the masses to be too dangerous to visit. ...Five crazy Parisians
Jul 14th, 2009 at 6:30PM: You never know what you'll see when you hit the streets of Paris. From performers to beggars to local strange, there's an endless supply of color. Everyone has a Paris story, I'm sure, involving the bizarre. So, definitely add yours to the comments below. I'll kick the process off with five of my favorite crazy Parisians.
1. The "Bosnians" If you've been to any major attractions in Paris, you've ...Talking travel with Patricia Schultz, author of "1000 Places to See" (plus book giveaway)
Jun 25th, 2008 at 9:00AM: Patricia Schultz is a well-traveled woman. She single-handedly launched the mini-industry of travel list books with her 2003 #1 New York Times bestseller, 1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List (Workman), which has sold more than 2.8 million copies and translated into 28 languages. Since then, she's written a sequel, 1,000 Places to see in the USA and Canada Before You Die, ...
