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.