Nov 30th, 2012 at 8:00AM: A British man has accomplished what many world travelers have only dreamed of. Over the course of the past four years, he has managed to visit every country on the planet, which is a very impressive feat considering some of the places he had to go to in order to earn this unique distinction. But perhaps most impressive of all is that he traveled to all of those places without ever stepping foot on ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Traveler Visits Every Country In The World Without Boarding A Plane
Nov 30th, 2012 at 8:00AM: A British man has accomplished what many world travelers have only dreamed of. Over the course of the past four years, he has managed to visit every country on the planet, which is a very impressive feat considering some of the places he had to go to in order to earn this unique distinction. But perhaps most impressive of all is that he traveled to all of those places without ever stepping foot on ...Cyclist Sets New Round-The-World Record
Jun 14th, 2012 at 8:00AM: A British cyclist named Mike Hall, riding in a round-the-world race, has set a new record for circling the globe on a bike. Hall completed his 18,000-mile journey last week, arriving back in London just 91 days and 18 hour after he set out. That breaks the previous record, set by Alan Bate in 2010, by more than two weeks.
When Hall left London three months back he was racing against eight other ...Video: Exercising Around The World
Apr 17th, 2012 at 5:05PM:
How do you stay fit while you travel? The hotel gym? Walking around sightseeing? Unless you're an adrenaline junkie, you probably don't put too much thought into exercising while you're on the road. So this video of NerdFitness.com blogger Steve Kamb exercising around the world provides a refreshing and practical look at how you can stay active anywhere.
Check out Steve warming up with ...
Video: Filmmakers 'Make It Count' By Circling The Globe In 10 Days
Apr 10th, 2012 at 8:00AM: Filmmaker Casey Neistat was recently contracted by sports apparel giant Nike to create a short film about its Fuelband, a high-tech bracelet designed to keep track of our workouts. Nike was hoping to build social media buzz around a new ad campaign that featured the tagline, and Twitter hashtag, #makeitcount. Turns out Casey and his buddy Max "made it count" by using Nike's money to fund a 10-day ...
Round-the-world bicycle race begins tomorrow
Feb 17th, 2012 at 8:00AM: The World Cycling Racing Grand Tour, the first round-the-world bike competition, gets underway tomorrow. From Greenwich Park in London, ten competitors have signed up for the event which will send them on a month's long odyssey that will cover more than 18,000 miles and span multiple continents -- just before returning to where they started in time for the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Summer ...Round the world trips for every budget
Dec 7th, 2011 at 5:00PM: For many people, booking a round the world trip is a distant fantasy, up there with "win a Grammy" and "marry Ryan Gosling". But as most seasoned travelers know, there isn't just one way to travel, and global adventures can be had at multiple budgets.
Our friends over at BootsnAll recently profiled 11 travel bloggers to uncover the real costs of round the world trips, getting them to spill the ...Airbnb launches sublets
Sep 1st, 2011 at 4:00PM: Airbnb, the company that provides a peer-to-peer accommodations marketplace, announced today that it will launch sublets. Currently, Airbnb offers only nightly or weekly bookings, but the new sublets category will enable travelers to book a home, apartment, houseboat, and scores of other types of lodging for a month - or months - at a time.
As Airbnb notes in its announcement, sublet rentals ...VIDEO: Many steps around the world
May 10th, 2011 at 10:00AM:
A new video by Japanese filmmaker Takayuki Akachi shows people taking steps all around the world. Sounds simplistic, because it is, but the video shows a beautiful slice-of-life from around the globe. His concept is described as "collecting the steps from all over the world and playing a music with the steps." The artist specializes in a "lone backpacker" style of filming that allows him to ...
Grantourismo blogger on guidebooks and travel writing
Nov 30th, 2010 at 11:00AM: Last week I posted a Q & A with blogger Lara Dunston and her husband and partner Terence Carter about their travel project and blog Grantourismo. In addition to good advice about renting a vacation apartment and getting "under the skin" of a place when traveling, they had a lot of interesting things to say about guidebooks, both from their experiences writing them and how they see travelers ...Round-the-world: Four days in Sydney
Sep 20th, 2010 at 10:00AM:
The first four days of our round-the-world trip race by in a whirl of receipts, flat whites, great meals, urban hikes, and friendly Sydneysiders.
You'll see that receipts head my list. Australia has become one expensive lucky country, make no bones about it. A late night dash to a convenience store for bottled water, a muesli bar, and biscuits sets us back AUD17 ($16). A copy of Monocle ...Chinese artist creates sculptures from suitcases
Sep 15th, 2010 at 10:00AM: Ever packed so much in your suitcase that it felt like you were carrying around a whole city? Apparently you're not the only one. Chinese artist Yin Xiuzhen had a similar feeling during her recent travels and decided to turn it into art. Xiuzhen has recently been using suitcases and discarded travel clothing to recreate miniature model cities in a project she calls "Portable Cities."
The idea ...A round-the-world trip: Why?
Sep 6th, 2010 at 10:00AM:
When I am asked why I love to travel, it's hard sometimes to come up with a fully satisfying answer, beyond simply stating that I love all the things that travel sets into motion. Travel enables cultural exposure, prompts the recurring and exciting recognition that there are different ways to go about everyday business, and allows strange and interesting things to happen in unfamiliar places. In ...Justin Glow and Rolf Potts embark on round the world trip -- with no bags
Aug 19th, 2010 at 8:00AM: Two of our favorite people in the world, Gadling editor-at-large Justin Glow and travel writer and personality Rolf Potts are teaming up on a wild project starting this week, traveling around the entire planet with absolutely no baggage.
The journey begins this morning on a flight between Kansas and New York City, where the team will be spending two days prior to their departure to London, ...On long-term travel, snobbery & judgmental blogging
Aug 12th, 2010 at 1:30PM:
If you read Gadling, there's a half-decent chance that you read other travel blogs, too. Don't worry. We're cool having an open relationship. We read other sites, as well. Some have the financial backing of investors or media companies. Others are independent labors of love written by one or two people who enjoy travel, started putting words to HTML and hoped that someone would read the stories ...Daily Pampering: 'Suite' ride on the Seabourn Sojourn world cruise
Aug 10th, 2010 at 4:00PM: If you're going to see the world, you might as well do it in style. The Yachts of Seabourn just unveiled its Seabourn Sojourn in London and is preparing the ship for a 2011 sail around the world.
The 110-day World Cruise from Los Angeles to London via the South Pacific, New Zealand, around Western Australia, Indonesia and Southeast Asia, India, Arabia and the Mediterranean will be beautiful ...Exciting Repositioning Cruises for the Fall
Jun 15th, 2010 at 1:00PM: Repositioning cruises are the leftovers of cruising. When cruise ships need to move from one port to another at seasonal cusps, they take less conventional itineraries to get from one home port to another. Repositioning cruises can often be booked for less than more conventional cruises on a per-night basis.
Repositioning cruises are also, somewhat ironically, a good option for independent ...British cyclist to attempt new round-the-world speed record
Mar 30th, 2010 at 8:00AM: Beginning tomorrow, British professional cyclist Alan Bate will set of on a round the world bike ride that he hopes will not only set a new speed record, but actually smash the old one. Bate has set his sights quite high, with a schedule that will see him covering the 18,000 mile route in just 99 days, if he can maintain the brutal pace.
The route, which can be viewed by clicking here, will ...Gadlinks for Thursday, 1.14.2010
Jan 14th, 2010 at 5:30PM:
It's almost Friday! Here's a few more travel tidbits from around the net to help you soldier on until the weekend.
Sometimes a country's "second cities" are even better than the more popular ones. AirTreks lists tens common stops on a round-the-world trip, and where you should go instead. [via AirTreks]
Matador has launched a campaign to round up relief workers to go to Haiti, ...British couple awarded over $35,000 for "loss of enjoyment" on cruise
Dec 5th, 2009 at 2:00PM: When Terence and Cynthia Milner booked a 15-week, $100,000 round-the-world cruise on Cunard's Queen Victoria, they were expecting the trip of a lifetime. Instead, they claim the experience was so horrible that they had to get off the ship early in Hawaii, at which point they were "in a terrible state."
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Oct 12th, 2009 at 9:30AM:
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Welcome back to Gadling's new series about Southeast Asia, South by Southeast. Starting in October, I'll be spending the next four months traveling through this much-discussed destination. But as exciting as it is to travel for several months, you can't just get ...
