Gumbo’s location in Puzzle #140, as Travelling Canuck and GarryRF recognized, was the puzzling city of Rochester, New York—a city that has re-invented itself so many times that its nicknames tangle the tongue. It’s been the Young...
Seeham, near Salzburg, has been named Austria's most environmentally-friendly place to live in a competition sponsored by the state broadcasting system, ORF. It was the top prize among 16 categories.
Komsomolskaya Station in Moscow/Wikipedia Tim Adams The weak ruble has made budget travel easier in Russia. Not only are there budget flight to Moscow and St Petersburg from the US, other transportation and...
If you're a fan of architecture and your bucket list of travel destinations is running low, here's a new list for you to consider: the buildings and sites that have just won prizes at the World Architecture Festival, held earlier this month in Singapore.
A beautiful classic car spotted while visiting my dad in Winnipeg. It was parked in the lot of a shopping mall. One of my favorites, a 1957 Chevy Bel-Air. Obviously lovingly maintained. I didn't get to talk to the owner, but I think the photos tell...
Walking through a small park in upstate New York recently, I was struck with how many leaves remained on the ground, and how few on the trees—and also by the patterns of color and shape they formed. Here are two images I liked. ...
Uber, which was banned in Spain last December and tried to overturn the ban with an appeal to the European Commission, will now try a different perspective: following the rules. Uber's original plan used its app to connect passengers with...
That's the puzzling question faced by cops in Mountain View, CA the other day. Mountain View, where Google...oops, Alphabet...is the most prominent corporate citizen is also one of the areas where Google's driverless cars are being tested. The...
Aerial views of Druridge Bay , Northumberland.
Sunday morning it is quiet in Willemstad; so different from earlier in the week when I walked along busy streets, admiring the island’s Dutch architecture and interacting with local merchants. My lodging is in the neighborhood of...
Photo from Ice Star Wars Facebook Page This year International Ice Sculpture...
London's Underground system carried over 4,735,000 people on Friday, Oct. 9th, a record count for the 152-year-old subway system. That was up a tick from the previous record, set on Friday, Nov. 28 in 2014. The last week of October set a record...
Qatar will soon open a quartet of new museums as part of a big downtown development, and one of them will take on a contentious subject—slavery—which has a long and little-discussed history in the Arabian Peninsula. The museum's...
ZiNG Airlines, a start-up airline out of Moncton, Canada, plans on using the locally manufactured Bombardier CS100 jets to compete with Air Canada and WestJet. ZiNG Founders, Wayne Fernandes and Ben de Mendonca, are planning to...
Does anyone really believe that's possible: UK to Australia between breakfast and lunch? Apparently the British government considers it worth some money to find out; it's invested £60 million ($92.2 million) in grants to a company...