For coffee lovers, Scandinavia is a bit of a mecca. In the heart of winter, there's nothing better than stepping into a warm cafe, brimming with people and their stacks of winter layers next to them, the windows steaming up as friends meet over coffee. In fact, in Sweden, ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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For coffee lovers, Scandinavia is a bit of a mecca. In the heart of winter, there's nothing better than stepping into a warm cafe, brimming with people and their stacks of winter layers next to them, the windows steaming up as friends meet over coffee. In fact, in Sweden, ...National Museum Of Scotland Takes New Look At Vikings
How much do we really know about the Vikings? A new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh asks this question and comes up with some interesting answers.
"Vikings!" collects more than 500 objects from the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm to show a ...Photo Of The Day: Winter Wonderland
This Photo of the Day, titled "Winter Wonderland," comes from Gadling Flickr pool member mjlacey who captured the image using a Canon PowerShot S100.
"When the sun comes out, it's nice weather, whatever the temperature! (-12 °C on this particular morning)," says ...Gadling Contributors' Favorite Restaurants Of 2012
I take pictures of my food at restaurants. Do you hate me now? Yeah, I thought so. I do it because I'm a food writer and I use the photos to jog my memory when I'm writing about a restaurant. But also sometimes I do it for the same reason a lot of other people do: ...Stockholm's Spirit Museum, A Bizarre Museum
Sweden has a strange relationship with alcohol. After going through a period of prohibition in the early 20th century, booze officially resurfaced but under strict government control. Today, for example, you can only find three brands of vodka on store shelves: Absolut, Good ...Uppsala, Sweden: A University Town With Viking Roots
Uppsala University in Sweden is 535 years old today, having been inaugurated on this date in 1477. As one of the older universities in Europe, it has quite a few sights to see and is located in a town of ancient importance.
The city started as a religious center for the ...Airbnb Nightmare: Prostitutes Use Apartment As Brothel
Airbnb is suffering another public relations nightmare this week after Swedish roommates returned home from a month-long vacation to find that their home had been raided by police after being used by the renters as a brothel.
Online magazine The Kernel reports that the ...GQ Names 'Most Underrated Cities' In Europe
Have you ever touched down on your hard earned vacation only to find you've landed in a tourist trap? GQ decided to help ensure none of their readers stands in a long line again. As part of their August issue, the magazine has put together a list of cities where ...Stockholm Hotel Allows Guests To Pay For Rooms With Artwork
Are you short on cash but want to travel? Maybe you should consider traveling to Sweden for your next vacation. Beginning this month, the Clarion Hotel in Stockholm is allowing guests to pay for their hotel with artwork instead of money.
The program began because the ...Iconic Absolut Vodka Ads On Exhibit at New Spiritmuseum in Sweden
Quick! What's the first thing you think about when you think about Sweden? If it's not IKEA, smorgasbords, or cold winters, then it's probably Absolut, the vodka brand whose bottle inspired 850 works of Pop art from 1986 to 2004. Now, 70 of the best of those works of art ...8 Languages You've Never Heard Of (And Who Actually Speaks Them)
As anyone who follows my articles here on Gadling knows by now, I don't travel to relax poolside at a resort or sip a fancy drink with coconut oil. I travel because this world is a fascinating place.
While everyone has their own travel philosophy and reasons for ...Stranded Swedish man survives 2 months in his car
A Swedish man, who had been missing for more than two months, was found alive, but in extremely poor condition, in a remote region of that country last week. The man was forced to survive on just snow and ice, after becoming stranded when his car got stuck in deep snow.
...Video: Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time
"Sometimes when you cook swedishly, the meal is destroyed. This is natural."
Did you grow up watching the Swedish Chef on "The Muppet Show?" I loved that guy. Do you find everything about "foodies" and the Food Network obnoxious and tedious? Yeah, me too. Allow me then, ...
The Vasa: an elegant seventeenth-century warship in Stockholm
Sweden's capital Stockholm has a lot to offer-fine dining, good shopping, lovely parks, access to some interesting day trips (the old Viking capital of Uppsala being my favorite) and a unique museum. The Vasa Ship Museum is one of Sweden's most popular tourist attractions ...Archaeologists search for missing medieval king
Archaeologists love a good mystery, and some researchers in Sweden have themselves a big one.
Earlier this year a research team opened what they believed to be the tomb of King Magnus Ladulås, who ruled Sweden from 1275-90. Magnus was a popular king with the ...Traditional holiday beverages from around the world
Americans aren't very creative when it comes to traditional holiday beverages (do, however, look for my upcoming story on Boulder's banging mixology scene, which includes some killer contemporary winter cocktails). Historically, though, we're more of an eggnog/mulled ...D*Haus' dynamic new house transforms shape with the weather
When it gets stormy outside, I usually just close my windows. But with the new innovative design concept by D*Haus, homes may soon by able to simply morph when the weather changes.
The London-based company has come up with a eco-friendly house that sits on rails, allowing ...
Video: Stockholm Metro video game art
Stockholm seems like a city worth visiting to me, but the city's newest art installation has me sold: video game subway station art. The Stockholm Metro is already regularly referred to as 'the world's largest art exhibition' (or 'the longest), so I shouldn't be ...
Five Halloween treats for grown-ups
Like many former kids, I used to live for Halloween. Sure, the dressing up part was fun, but so was TP'ing the neighbor's tree. What All Hallow's Eve was really about were Pixy Stix, Fun Dip, mini Milky Way bars, and REESE'S Peanut Butter Cups (in my world, the latter still ...Stay in a UFO in Sweden
Walk through the deep forest of Harads, a town of approximately 600 residents not far from Sweden's border with Finland, and you'll see it: a retro-looking UFO suspended in the trees and accessible via a retractable staircase. This is the UFO, one of five, stand-alone ...
