Filed under: Video It won't be too much longer till college lets out for the year and scores of students will don backpacks, buy Eurail passes and head to Europe. Get some buddies together for a summer road trip and there's bound to be some goofing off. It seems like Venice attracts more than its fa...

Well, the pickings are very slim out there among this week's newspaper travel sections in the US, especially for readers who like a good yarn about an unknown destination. But to be fair, I had never heard of Puyallup, Washington, which the Seattle Times says has the country's largest sewing expo an...

Filed under: Food and Drink For a time there, Berlin was in possession of a pretty well-kept secret: A chain of wine bars called weinerein that were based on the premise that you paid what you felt like paying. It was simple: You'd come in, drop a euro coin through a slot in a jar, and select from a...

Filed under: Airlines It's been a while since we've had a good "passenger does something stupid" story for you in on Gadling. For those going into withdrawal, let me introduce you to David Watson, 41, of Selkirk, N.Y. David seems to have a bit of a grab-ass problem. He was arrested last Friday upon ...

Filed under: Food and Drink, Airlines Amid the slew of airline fees introduced last year, US Airway's announcement that it would begin charging for beverages it once offered for free -- soda, juice, water -- struck a lot of passengers as a real desperation move. Unlike a lot of other fees, however, ...

Filed under: Festivals and Events Here's a fun fact: Nearly 400 people were arrested in New Orleans this past weekend, forced to chill out at central lockup after being charged with public drunkenness, lewd contact, resisting arrest, disturbing the peace and a variety of other misdemeanors that are ...

Filed under: What's in Your Pack? Given all the fees airlines are levying against passengers for baggage these days, it's never been more important to think about how you pack and look for ways to go lighter. Indeed, baggage fees are probably the best thing to have every happened to the one bag, car...

Filed under: Airlines The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a new alert to flight crews re-stating regulations that require cell phones to be shut off during take off and inflight, even those belonging to flight attendants and pilots. It seems that in at least one example a pilot was not fo...

Filed under: Arts and Culture, Business, News This is a bit of news that slipped by our notice late last month: Waterford, makers of some of the world's most famous crystal (including the ball that drops on Times Square every New Year's Eve), closed its main factory in the town of Waterford, Ireland...

Filed under: Festivals and Events, Food and Drink, Germany Most of the time you can find yourself in Cologne, Germany, and not really know why you're there -- that's how relatively unexciting and nondescript Western Germany's largest city is. But say you find yourself on the platform of Cologne's ma...