A Merry Christmas Eve to the Gadling Nation! I hope you’re all having a wonderful holiday season and won’t be spending too much time stranded in airports. Now on to the Gadlinks…
- Our friends over at Bootsnall have compiled their Top 10 Destinations for Independent Travelers in 2010.
- Some accidental geography, courtesy of the indispensable Strange Maps blog.
- Why is the state of air travel so dismal these days? Reason‘s Steve Chapman says it’s not the airlines’ fault.
- World Hum’s Frank Bures lists the best travel books of 2009, including the intriguing-sounding Chucking It All: How Downshifting to a Windswept Scottish Island Did Absolutely Nothing to Improve My Life.
- Super-blogger Tyler Cowen offers some notes from Nicaragua. Among them: “The keys to eating well here are: avoid walls, seek corn, and bow down to the finest white creams and cheeses you are likely to find.”
More Gadlinks here.