Dec 28th, 2009 at 11:14PM:
As we come to the close of 2009, it's time to start dreaming about far-off lands to visit in the coming year. And I have to say, this great shot of Venice homes shared by tysonwilliams.com provides the perfect inspiration.
If you've got some great travel shots you'd love to share, be sure to upload them to the Gadling pool on Flickr. We might just pick one as our Photo of the Day. ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Photo of the day 12.28.09
Dec 28th, 2009 at 11:14PM:
As we come to the close of 2009, it's time to start dreaming about far-off lands to visit in the coming year. And I have to say, this great shot of Venice homes shared by tysonwilliams.com provides the perfect inspiration.
If you've got some great travel shots you'd love to share, be sure to upload them to the Gadling pool on Flickr. We might just pick one as our Photo of the Day. ...Caribbean cruise is 60% off and kids travel free
Nov 29th, 2009 at 4:00PM: If you've ever thought about taking a Caribbean cruise, here's a deal for you to consider. MSC Cruise Lines is offering 60% off on a 7-night Caribbean cruise that departs from Ft. Lauderdale and stops at the following ports: San Juan, Puerto Rico; Basseterre, St. Kitts; Philipsburg, St. Maarten; Cartagena, Colombia, Puerto Limón, Costa Rica and Cristóbal, Panama. There are other ...Venice hosts its own funeral
Nov 14th, 2009 at 2:30PM: Venice is dying. At least, according to Newsweek it is. The population has been shrinking so rapidly (it dropped below 60,000 this year) that the mag predicts there won't be a single full-time resident in the city by 2030. A city that sees millions of visitors per year, an average of 55,000 per day, won't be home to a single person. Yeah, I'd call that a dead city.
To draw attention to the ...Tourists in Venice urged to drink the water
Sep 29th, 2009 at 2:00PM: Collecting the trash in Venice is no easy feat. After all, it's not like a garbage truck can just drive down the street - there aren't any. Garbage is collected by workers with wheelbarrows and then loaded onto barges and costs about $335 million per ton to remove (compared to $84 million per ton on the mainland of Italy).
In an effort to reduce these costs, the Venetian government is asking ...Kayaking Venice
Sep 27th, 2009 at 11:30AM: Venice, Italy is one of the most popular and romantic cities in all of Europe. Famously built on a series of small islands along the Venetian Lagoon, just off the Adriatic Sea, travelers flock to the city to stroll its floating walkways and take gondola rides through the watery streets. This is the typical way that tourists explore the city, which has a rich and varied history dating back 1500 ...Gadling Take FIVE: Week of Sept. 11-Sept. 18
Sep 19th, 2009 at 1:30PM: Perhaps you noticed that Monday was Weird America at Gadling. Granted, it may seem that many days are weird at Gadling, but Monday's post centered on the odd and unusual. Caves, squirrels, monsters, ghosts, mysterious structures, Superman, leaping postmen and a gigantic tire were part of the mix.
But that's not all that showed up in our offerings. These are some you may have missed in the ...Overcrowded Venice may ban day-trippers
Sep 18th, 2009 at 10:30AM: There's no question that Venice is a city overrun with tourists. 20 million people visit the sinking city each year, yet only 60,000 Italians call Venice home. It's no wonder then that the city starts to feel more like an open-air museum, a well-preserved relic of the past, rather than a living, and lived-in, city.
The residents of Venice put up with a lot (though or course, many of them profit ...Photo of the Day (8-19-09)
Aug 19th, 2009 at 5:00PM: At St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy, as StrudelMonkey who took this shot says, there are pigeons galore. These are just two of them. I love the movement in the image on the left in contrast to the bird on the right. A perfect shot snapped at a perfect travel moment.
As I was in St. Mark's Square just three days ago with my son who sat still trying to get pigeons to eat cracker crumbs out of ...Photo of the Day (8-5-09)
Aug 5th, 2009 at 5:00PM:
Wow! That was my first impression when coming across jonrawinson's shot of Venice Italy's sky. His photo is a terrific reminder that when taking travel photos, that the place one is visiting can be a backdrop for creating a visual message. The way I know this is Venice is because he says that it is. The buildings, however, do give a hint of location and provide allure. The sky, though, is the ...Unexpected trip plan change? Make lemonade out of a lemon
Jul 28th, 2009 at 2:00PM: For circumstances beyond my control, my mom isn't going on our cruise to Greece in August. Originally the trip was my idea to help fulfill a longtime dream of hers--take a Greek cruise. When I found out that MSC Cruise lines was offering quite the deal I was on it. We booked the cruise in March.
All details fit into place including hotel rooms in Venice, the cruise's port and frequent flier ...Gadlinks for Friday 7.24.09
Jul 24th, 2009 at 6:00PM: Happy Friday, Gadling! There are all kinds of great travel reads (and a contest!) out there on the world wide web today. Here are a few...
The magic of Venice cannot be denied. Just take a look at these photos and you'll understand why. [via Travelogged]
This interesting article contemplates the effect of new solar energy farms on traveling in the States. [via Nat Geo Adventure Travel]
...Venice gets its first female gondolier
Jun 28th, 2009 at 6:30PM: Women's Rights: 1
Tradition: 0
Venice has broken a nine hundred year-old tradition by certifying its first female gondolier. The trade, normally handed down from father to son, recently opened up to everyone when the city of Venice introduced an official gondoliering course in 2007. That course has just had its first female graduate, the Guardian reported.
Giorgia Boscolo, a 23 year-old mother of ...Through the Gadling Lens: taking photographs at night
Jun 25th, 2009 at 11:00AM: Recently, I received a note from a friend of mine who'd just returned from a vacation: I just returned from a vacation in which much of our activity was at night. I didn't carry a tripod, and I was dissatisfied with using either the auto setting on the camera (the flash burst overexposed my subjects' faces) or the in-camera "night setting" (the subjects' skin seemed blurry and everything in the ...Five ways to get dirty this summer
Jun 18th, 2009 at 3:00PM: Grabbing the railing on the subway? For some of us, it's a fact of life, but I'm told there are plenty of people out there who liken it to shoving your hand in a toilet. According to a recent TripAdvisor poll of more than 4,000 travelers, around one-third consider themselves to be "germaphobic" since the H1N1 swine flu outbreak.
So, where do germaphobes go? I imagine they hang out in hospitals ...Gadling + BootsnAll - Picks of the Week (5.15.09)
May 15th, 2009 at 11:00AM: Welcome back to Gadling's weekly "Picks of the Week" feature, brought to you by our friends at travel website BootsnAll. How does it work? We input thousands of travel variables into the Gadling mainframe computer, and out comes five of the best and most interesting travel stories from BootsnAll this past week, ready for your reading pleasure. Got your 5.25" floppy disk ready? Alright, here's what ...Stinky London, Rude Paris, Romantic Venice
May 6th, 2009 at 6:00PM: If you need a sense of authority to trust a publication, you can't do better than one from Australia. So, when the Sydney Morning Herald says that Brussels is boring, you have to believe it. Likewise, Paris is overrated, and the food sucks in London (duh).
Well, if you think the folks down under have credibility problems, fear not. It was reporting on a TripAdvisor poll of nearly 2,400 travelers, ...In the top 10 of European hotels, Venice is the expensive winner
Apr 18th, 2009 at 2:00PM: European hotel booking site Trivago just released their April hotel price charts, and Venice was voted "most expensive city in Europe". At the bottom of the list is Budapest, where you can find a room for an average of 83 Euros a night. The rest of the top 10 list is as follows:
Venice (€177)
Genèva (€174)
Paris (€149)
Oslo (€146)
Amsterdam (€144)
...Sit or Squat: Website helps you find a public toilet anywhere using your cell phone
Mar 26th, 2009 at 3:00PM: One of my fondest memories of the U.S. when I lived in a dusty village in The Gambia without indoor plumbing was the smell of my grandparents' bathroom. I remembered it as smelling clean and fresh, like Charmin. Oh, how I missed it. (Actually, it might have been White Cloud, come to think of it.)
But, regardless, that's not the reason to sing Charmin praises today. Today, it's about public ...Gadling + BootsnAll - Picks of the Week (3.13.09)
Mar 13th, 2009 at 11:30AM: Welcome back to Gadling's weekly "Picks of the Week" from our friends over at travel site, BootsnAll. Every Friday we'll be bringing you some of our favorite stories this week from the site. Take a look below and click on through if you find something that catches your interest:
Weird Philippines - the Philippines is already an "out there" destination for many travelers, so it goes without ...What do backpackers do in Venice? Check it out
Mar 3rd, 2009 at 3:00PM: It won't be too much longer till college lets out for the year and scores of students will don backpacks, buy Eurail passes and head to Europe. Get some buddies together for a summer road trip and there's bound to be some goofing off. It seems like Venice attracts more than its fair share of goofballs. Giving the city's architecture and museums a mist, a favorite past time for backpackers in ...
