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Filed under: Arts and Culture , History , Learning , Europe , Slovenia , Hotels and Accommodations Recently, Gadling’s Meg Nesterov talked about 10 reasons to travel to Ljubljana in Slovenia . The country has a lot to offer to visitors, and for those looking for an affordable and...Ghosts of Scott and Amu...
Filed under: Arts and Culture , History , Skiing , Festivals and Events , Antarctica , Norway , United Kingdom , News Exactly 100 years ago today, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole , effectively ending a race that he had been engaged in for...The best Italian restau...
Filed under: History , Food and Drink , Africa , Ethiopia , Italy , Budget Travel ” Prego ,” said the Italian woman sitting behind an elevated counter. She waved me into one of the dining rooms, bedecked with rich wood paneling and white tablecloths draped over the half dozen...Air Seychelles: Canary ...
Our old friend he Cardinal is back with an unlikely guest post. Why is he writing about Air Seychelles? It has global implications. Read on. – When Americans think of island paradises, thoughts generally drift to the Pacific and the Caribbean because those are the islands on which...
Weird monument in Wales...
Filed under: History , Learning , Europe , United Kingdom If you’re staying in Aberystwyth , Wales , you can see it from pretty much everywhere–a tall tower on a bluff to the south of town. At first it’s hard to see what it is, so my wife, five-year-old son and I...
Angkor Wat Bike Race at...
Filed under: Biking , Festivals and Events , Photos , Asia , Cambodia This past weekend, more than 600 cyclists turned out at dawn for the annual Angkor Wat Bike Race and Ride at the temple complex outside Siem Reap, Cambodia . As the sun rose behind the main temple, cyclists shot off to...