Photo of the day – BART station

by Alex Robertson Textor on

Homesickness drives today’s Photo of the Day, which contrasts the blur of a BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) train in a San Francisco station with a passenger’s shiny jacket. I’m a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, see, and though I’ve lived away from the region for about half of my adult life, the Bay Area will always feel like home.

BART’s once-futuristic carriages may not be at the cutting edge of public transportation design, but they are an aesthetic constant in the Bay Area. Snapped by Flickr member jrodmanjr, this image captures the dated futurism of a BART station.

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Photo of the day – morning coffee in Thailand

by Meg Nesterov on


How do you take your coffee? Flickr user LadyExpat posted this lovely setup from Chiang Mai, Thailand. Coffee is a thing beloved around the world and served differently everywhere. Turkey may be famous for its dense and tiny cups of coffee, but tulip-shaped glasses of tea and ready made Nescafe are more popular with locals and the muddy stuff is served more as digestif. In Italy, don’t even think of ordering a milky coffee past breakfast or your waiter will warn you of getting a stomachache. In Argentina, I looked forward to sweet media lunes each morning with my cafe con leche.

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Video of the Day: Baby eats wasabi

by Mike Barish on

We’ve obviously been talking about food a lot this week. Food and travel are always linked, as we remember places as much for their tastes and smells as we do for their sights and sounds. While I’m now an avid traveler, I grew up taking pretty standard vacations to Florida and all-inclusive resorts. As such, I didn’t really get to experience ethnic cuisines and challenging tastes until later in life. The baby in the video, however, is getting a leg (or tongue) up on the competition by experiencing flavors at an incredibly young age. OK, enough of me making this sound poignant. Just watch a baby eating wasabi already.

Video of the Day: Eating live octopus

by Mike Barish on

We’ve already discussed how much some people enjoy photographing their food. What happens, however, when your food is moving? Still images can’t capture the action of live animals squirming on your plate. Sound strange? Well, it happens. In Korean restaurants around the world, you can order live octopus. The tentacles move. The head throbs. The suction cups stick to your mouth. Weird? Sure. Delicious? Well, you know what they say: taste in the mouth in the ingester.

Photo of the day – Pink haze in Indianapolis

by Alex Robertson Textor on

A pink haze at the Indianapolis International Airport? Sort of.

We love the incidentals of travel at Gadling. We love airport lounges, departure boards, ticket stubs, in-flight magazines, even cute salt and pepper shakers — really anything that speaks to travel in all of its extraordinary or completely banal glory.

Today’s Photo of the Day, by Flickr user davitydave, captures one such piece of travel: an airport walkway at the Indianapolis International Airport, bathed in pink lights.

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