Gadlinks for Tuesday, 12.22.2009

Welcome to another edition of Gadlinks, your go-to source for the most interesting links in the world of travel. Here’s what’s piqued our interest today…

  • In the something-I-didn’t-know department, Slate explains Sweden’s strange tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve.
  • Brave New Traveler’s JoAnna Haugen tells why sometimes fitting in is hard to do.
  • People travel for lots of different reasons: for pleasure, for escape, for business, and as the San Francisco Chronicle‘s Carolyn Lochhead points out, for medical treatment.
  • Over at World Hum, Doug Lansky shows us eight of the funniest signs from his new Signspotting book.
  • Vagablogging recommends Google Voice as a Skype alternative.

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