A friend just forwarded me a link to some very impressive pics of Stockholm’s Tunnelbana stations – apparently, they’re known as “the longest art gallery in the world.”

People-watching is one of the best parts of urban travel, if you ask me – seeing how global fashion trends get filtered through regional style, or what unique kinds of sartorial crazy the locals have dreamt up.

Yesterday a post about an ancient Viking outpost, and today I hear that the tech-savvy descendants of those same Vikings are colonizing the virtual world.

There are two approaches to throwing a party to get through the darkest and coldest part of winter: embrace the freeze with ice sculptures, ice castles, etc., or beat back the cold with brute force by burning as many things as possible.

There’s a new travel blog in town: Globorati, a daily digest for the luxury-travel minded.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 11/26/06.

Just like your parents made you clean your plate because children were starving elsewhere, Norwegians have been told to stop whingeing about their state-supported lifestyles, as the UN has declared Norway the best place to live on earth.

The tourist boards of some countries (I’m talking to you Kazakhstan) will fight tooth-and-nail against stereotypes of their country and citizens; Sweden, however, in a typically pacifistic move, has decided to embrace theirs as a marketing gimmick.

Travel with a DIY streak seemed to be on the minds of travel editors near and far this weekend.

Last weekend’s travel stories were slim pickings, no doubt due to writers and editors phoning it in before skipping out of town, but apparently on 4th of July weekend, we the people feel very, er, nautical.