Mike Vaughan and Jason Minvielle were in a remote section of eastern Turkey when they decided to stop for the night by the roadside. As they began erecting their tent, a tank and armoured personnel carrier pulled up. The tank aimed its cannon directly at the two Regina travellers. “Soldiers with machine guns jumped out [...]
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Air travel has long been lambasted, particularly by environmental groups, for the amount of gas emissions that flights release into the atmosphere. A recent study for the European Commission found that aircraft travel currently causes from 3.5 to 7.4 percent of global warming emissions. However, there are predictions that this will rise to 15 per cent [...]
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Did you know that Canada possesses the world’s largest wildlife game sanctuary, or that mobster Al Capone once had a secret hideout located beneath the streets of Moose Jaw, or that Alberta boasts the world’s only official Flying Saucer Landing Pad? These are just a few of the surprising factoids that I discovered while perusing the [...]
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From time to time, travel publications such as National Geographic Traveller and Outside magazine publish lists of the greatest travel books of all time. Typically, these rankings include the exotic dispatches of Paul Theroux, Bruce Chatwin, Pico Iyer, Jonathan Raban and Wilfred Thesiger. Conspicuously absent from most of these lists is the travel book that [...]
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Comedian George Carlin once observed: “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” Here are a few more nuggets from Carlin’s repertoire:
“The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.”
”Ever wonder about those people [...]
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Only two North American cities can truly boast rock and roll museums that are major tourist attractions: Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Seattle’s Experience Music Project (EMP). The latter, which opened in 2000, has become a city landmark due in large part to its unique and controversial architecture, which is meant to [...]
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Dedicated TV watchers will recall that most episodes of Hawaii Five-O ended with the arrest of criminals and the uttering of super cop Steve McGarrett’s catch phrase to officer Danny Williams,” Book ‘em, Danno!” Luckily for McGarrett he only had to contend with bad guys on the Hawaiian Islands. Judging by the following collection of [...]
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Hundreds of people die each year in airplanes, and I’m not counting the crashes. No, they expire in mid-flight from heart attacks and other physical ailments. This, of course, creates a delicate problem for the crew and the other passengers, not to mention emotional trauma for family members or friends of the deceased. If a [...]
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Two books on travel writing that were published within the last year have provoked a storm of controversy. Both books—Do Travel Writers Go To Hell, by Thomas Kohnstamm and Smile When You’re Lying, by Chuck Thompson—are awash in sex, drugs, booze and assorted illegal activity, but that’s not the main reason they caused a stir. They attracted [...]
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Tired of the same old boring hotel accommodations? Then you may want to consider the Propeller Island City Lodge in Berlin, Germany. You can stay here in a different room every night for a month and never see the same decor twice. All of the hotel’s 32 eccentric theme rooms were created by the owner, [...]
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