Jul 29th, 2011 at 8:30AM:
Hitting the rails around Europe can be a blast, and I particularly enjoyed it in the so-called "Benelux" countries (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg). The scenery in the Netherlands was a bit thin, but the Belgian towns were incredibly cute, and it was fun to watch the Dutch signs yield to French as we approached the Luxembourg border.
And let's face it: any alternative to air travel is a ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Mastering the culinary experience on Benelux trains
Jul 29th, 2011 at 8:30AM:
Hitting the rails around Europe can be a blast, and I particularly enjoyed it in the so-called "Benelux" countries (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg). The scenery in the Netherlands was a bit thin, but the Belgian towns were incredibly cute, and it was fun to watch the Dutch signs yield to French as we approached the Luxembourg border.
And let's face it: any alternative to air travel is a ...Gadling's rankings of hotel breakfast buffet foods
May 3rd, 2011 at 1:00PM:
One of the magical things about staying at a hotel is enjoying the breakfast buffet. At home, you might just have a bowl of cereal, a banana or a cup of coffee for breakfast. Heck, many people just skip breakfast. Does it mean nothing to you that it's the most important meal of the day? At hotels, however, you can indulge in all of your breakfast fantasies. Rather than studying a diner menu ...Bizarre foods: European "delicacies," by country
Mar 16th, 2011 at 1:00PM:
What constitutes "food" is relative, depending upon what part of the world you call home. In Asia, pretty much anything on no (snakes), two, four, six, or eight legs is up for grabs. Europe, however, has its own culinary oddities, as detailed below. Got maggots?
Iceland
Hákarl: Fermented, dried Greenland or basking shark. This tasty treat is prepared by burying the beheaded and ...Photo of the day - Lunch in Serbia
Jan 20th, 2011 at 5:00PM:
One of the best parts of traveling is indulging in a few vices. The "hey, I'm on vacation!" attitude enables you to order dessert, have a glass of wine with lunch, and not worry about the calories you're taking in, especially as you figure you'll burn them off walking around museums or hiking the countryside. This photo by Flickr user eolone in Serbia shows some of the best travel food groups: ...Weekending: Prague
Sep 3rd, 2010 at 3:00PM:
While I'm living in Istanbul, I try to take advantage of all the amazing destinations a few hours' flight away and travel there as often as possible. I like to focus on destinations that are harder to access from the US for just a few days (such as Turkey's beach town Bodrum) and places best explored while I'm still relatively young and unencumbered (to wit: Beirut). Traveling as an expat takes ...U.S. Open: Chomp on a Hotdog
Sep 2nd, 2010 at 8:00AM:
Hotdogs and sporting events belong together, so when I went to my first U.S. Open tennis match, I knew I'd have to see what the Arthur Ashe Stadium had to offer. Given a delay caused by matches earlier in the day, the Nadal/Gabashvili pairing started late, so I wasn't able to take my first bite until darkness had descended over Queens.
I left my seat and ambled over to the concession as the ...You have to eat sausage in Vienna. You have to.
Mar 22nd, 2010 at 12:00PM:
I don't know your life, but I do know you need to eat sausage in Vienna. If you are a vegetarian, I get that, and there are options for you at some of the finer purveyors, so you are included in this. Weiner schnitzel is delicious and all, but it actually originated in Milan. You should probable have a Sacher Torte at some point, but none of this negates the fact that you absolutely must eat ...South by Southeast: Five reasons to eat more street food
Jan 22nd, 2010 at 9:00AM: Welcome back to Gadling's series on backpacking Southeast Asia, South by Southeast. In Southeast Asia, the center of daily life is the street. In Hanoi, pedestrians stop for a trim at sidewalk barber stands. In Bangkok, co-workers gather for steaming street-side bowls of noodle soup. And in Mandalay, men huddle at curbside tea shops, sipping milky-sweet chai while trading stories and gossip. You ...SkyMall Monday: A Cornucopia of Foods
Jan 18th, 2010 at 1:00PM: Writing about SkyMall products can generate a real man-sized hunger. Living in New York, I'm surrounded by culinary options from around the globe. I can easily walk from the the SkyMall Monday Headquarters to any number of restaurants specializing in the cuisines of Thailand, Nepal, Italy, Afghanistan, Turkey and Canada (yes, Canada), just to name a few. But sometimes I want to experience the ...A week at the Dulles customs area - cocaine, porn and $35,000
Feb 27th, 2009 at 1:00PM: Traveling often sucks - but a sure way to make the end of your trip even worse, is to get one of those cryptic red messages scribbled all over your customs form when you pass through the immigration line. I've been selected for a closer look at my belongings about 20 times, and it can be a massive pain in the backside. Customs officials usually go through every single item in my bags, going so ...Weird things that drop on New Year's Eve
Dec 31st, 2008 at 10:30AM:
Jeffery wrote about weird New Year's traditions around the world. There are also weird items that drop at midnight New Year's Eve.
Sure you can watch the ball drop at Time's Square in New York City on New Year's Eve, either in person or on television, or you can watch a walleye drop. A walleye is a fish caught in Lake Erie. Every year a 20-foot, 600 pound fiberglass walleye is dropped in Port ...Is this the world's most disgusting ice cream?
Apr 14th, 2008 at 10:20AM:
Some people think that this is the world's most disgusting ice cream, but I disagree because it's not actually ice cream. It's sausage and a pillowy mound of mashed potatoes with pea sprinkles. The UK company Aunt Bessie's makes this delectable treat that is apparently available in ice cream trucks around England as a cold-weather alternative. Mmmm... ...Hard alcohol banned from Wenceslas Square stands. Kielbasas saved!
Feb 8th, 2008 at 9:00AM: The sausage stands on Prague's Wenceslas Square are probably familiar to anyone who stumbled its cobble-stoned streets after midnight, looking (unsuccessfully) for a more civilized place to eat. The after-dark scene around these stands is not what most people have in mind when they picture the fairy-tale city of Prague: homeless people, prostitutes, and people of various stages of ...10-Day Sausage Fest in Texas
Oct 8th, 2007 at 10:39AM: New Braunfels, Texas, has been holding "Wurstfest -- The 10-day salute to sausage" for 46 years. While the rest of the world celebrates Oktoberfest, New Braunfels' residents wait a bit longer in the fall to honor another German favorite besides beer: sausage. The fest kicks off with the traditional "biting of the sausage" (see photo) and continues with plenty of accordion music, and the chance to ...
