Tim Wu, in a recent New Yorker article makes a strong case that most of the things we complain about in travel, and especially air travel—cramped seats, fees for everything, etc.—are due to Wall Street pressure on carriers to...
My English friend and I left the beautiful apartment on the Anfiteatro in Lucca , she home to Bromsgrove in the West Midlands, and I toward Budapest and my old friends with a guesthouse near the famous synagogue. I was treating myself to...
When I was working at the Rockyview General Hospital in Calgary, I would like to take a walk along the Glenmore Reservoir on my way into and out of the building. The sun was just setting as I left work and I was able to take the time to...
We've seen the role of flight attendants change over the decades. Gone are the days of weight limitations, gloves, and mandatory skirts and heels. The time when everyone on the plane was served fine meals and wine -- poof, vanished....
Starting in March 2015 , the Lufthansa Group will be flying on a biokerosene mixture on their flights out of Oslo. Read More: http://aviation-news.net/2015/01/02/lufthansa-group-aircraft-fly-from-oslo-on-biokerosene/
One of the highlights of a visit to Patagonia is a stop to see this magnificient glacier!
On a recent trip back home to Melbourne (Australia) , we took a leisurely stroll down Swanston Street, one of the main thoroughfares in the centre of the city.
A stronger US Dollar has reduced costs for Americans in much of Europe,Japan,India, Australia and many more places. The Euro on Monday was at it's lowest against the Dollar since 2006. Read More:...
The Ramblers (formerly Ramblers' Association) has its 80th birthday this year, and is still going strong, with 114,000 long-distance walkers in chapters all over Britain.
Travel-industry news site Skift has been surveying U.S. vacation habits, and has come up with a new startler. In an online survey conducted in the first few days of 2015, they found that 41% of those surveyed took NO vacation at all in 2014!...
Did you ever think you would eat ice cream out of a miniature squat toilet? Or that someone would come up with that concept? This phenomena was first introduced in Taipei, Taiwan in the early 2000s when it was a unique idea for an ice...
Many of the Arctic birds are large white birds such as geese and swans but also include smaller and different coloured sandpipers and other birds. Where is the best place to see these magnificent Arctic birds? The most...
Brussels is the homeland of Tintin, Spirou, The Smurfs, Lucky Luke and the Dalton brothers, all international comic strip heroes. I, off course, had to take a closer look, and started at the Belgian Comic Strip Center.
The unusual light in this shot invites the title, but the stairs actually rise not to heaven, but to the heavenly beauty of the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy.
A boat trip on the Norfolk Broads is one of the pleasures available for visitors to one of the world’s most idiosyncratic areas of wetlands and waterways.