Estonia
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is one of Europe's most beautiful medieval cities, and it's getting an increasing number of visitors. Starting next year there will be more to see as the city opens up secret tunnels from the 17th century connecting the city wall, shown ...
by Kraig Becker (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
A new study conducted by George Washington University, Vital Wave Consulting, and the Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) shows that Israel, Chile, and the Slovak Republic led the way in adventure tourism in 2010. The study, which resulted in the third annual Adventure ...
by Meg Nesterov (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
This year is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union and 21 years since the reunification of Germany. While citizens of the USSR and GDR were unable to travel abroad and restricted in domestic travel, foreign travelers were permitted under a controlled ...
by Alex Robertson Textor (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Creative new use for border crossing posts at German/Austrian border.
In the late 1980s, an American spending a summer traveling across Europe with a Eurailpass would see his or her passport stamped possibly dozens of times. With a few exceptions, every time a border ...
by Alex Robertson Textor (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Last June, we published a list of four European islands that float under the radar: Porquerolles, France; Fasta Åland, Finland; San Domino, Italy; and Vlieland, Netherlands.
As far as we're concerned, it's not too early to start making summer travel plans to get ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
One of the greatest boons to travelers in recent years is the expanding eurozone. Gone are the days when you spent a few days in France, then wasted money getting your francs exchanged into lire in order to visit Italy. There were always a few odd coins left over that ended ...
by Andrew Evans (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
You were a cheerleader, you dated a cheerleader, or you hated the cheerleaders. As I recall, that's how high school worked.
Thanks to travel PR, that same primeval paradigm lives on long after graduation. That miniskirts-shouting-slogans thing still works, whether you're ...
by Kraig Becker (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
The Adventure Tourism Development Index is a study put together by the Adventure Travel Trade Association, in conjunction with George Washington University and Xola Consulting. The joint effort examines 192 countries and ranks them based on their commitment to sustainable ...
by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (3 years ago)
Yeah, on first glance, Tallinn looks like it was lifted out of EPCOT. The walls around the capital of Estonia, the look and feel of the architecture ... the "old city" seems almost staged. But, that changes quickly when you walk the streets, get a feel for the people and ...
by Brenda Yun (RSS feed) (3 years ago)
It's time to look at the festivals and events happening around the world, and this week has a particularly international selection of happenings. If you're close and have time, then you have no excuse to get out and go!
Saskatoon - The Saskatoon Fall Fair, an ...
by Kraig Becker (RSS feed) (3 years ago)
Eco-adventures are all the rage these days with environmentally conscious travelers choosing to visit far flung places, all the while fully aware of the size of their carbon footprint. They want an amazing travel experience, and are willing to go to great lengths to get it, ...
by Karen Walrond (RSS feed) (3 years ago)
I love this great shot shared by t3mujin, of a hostel in Estonia. I think the more predictable shot would have been to just take a photograph of the stained glass window; instead, t3mujin shoots down the hallway, showing the play of colour caused by the window -- which, ...
by Jamie Rhein (RSS feed) (3 years ago)
When asked the to respond to the statement, "I would like to go to visit this country if money were no object," Canada ranked number one in a recent global survey conducted by Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brand Index.
Where was the U.S. in the mix of 50? Number 10. ...
by Kraig Becker (RSS feed) (3 years ago)
An ambitious group of smugglers managed to build a 1.2 mile long pipeline across the Russian-Estonian border with the intention of pumping contraband vodka into the EU. According to this story from the Telegraph, they actually managed to get more than 1630 gallons across the ...
by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (3 years ago)
Eyesore or art, graffiti is part of any culture's public dialogue. Vandalism is visual profanity, and we all swear in our own f---ing ways. I've been drawn to these wall scrawls for a while, probably since I read Holden Caulfield's concerns about the subject in Catcher in ...
by Neil Woodburn (RSS feed) (5 years ago)
Recently our Alaska correspondent, Catherine Bodry, wrote a humorous post about all the dumb questions tourists ask the locals when they visit Alaska--like, "what time do they turn on the northern lights?"
I've always believed that people from other countries also have a ...
by Neil Woodburn (RSS feed) (5 years ago)
If you're in the tech industry these days, your travel has become increasingly more widespread in the last five years as international competition has started challenging Silicon Valley as the sole place to do business. With this in mind, Business 2.0 has published a handy ...
by Neil Woodburn (RSS feed) (5 years ago)
Thinking of renting a car and driving through Europe this summer? Want to come back alive? Well then, there are a couple of countries you should probably avoid--mainly those located in the Baltics.
According to a recent EU report, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia had the ...
by Neil Woodburn (RSS feed) (6 years ago)
We've posted a number of times here on Gadling about various tunnels and catacombs which wind their way under old cities throughout the Europe.
Thanks to an article in the Baltic Times, we have one more tunnel system to add to the list.
Buried deep below the town of ...
by Adrienne Wilson (RSS feed) (6 years ago)
Brr... Since the weather system seems to be in a funk almost everywhere these days perhaps it is time we start learning the local lingo to help us better discuss global warming when chatting with our concerned foreign friends, say in Estonia. Today's word is an Estonian ...
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