A Personal Revelation
As many of you may remember, last year on May 22nd, we adopted a handsome barn cat from my best friend Lucy, in part to add a bit of a distraction for the next six months of dealing with John’s recent cancer diagnosis and...
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FAA Says Boeing 737 MAX May Have Improperly Manufactured Parts TravelPulse Canada The Federal Aviation Administration said some Boeing 737 MAX and NG planes might be using parts that were improperly manufactured. Specifically,...
A Final Drive Through the Loire Valley: Onto Avranches
Around the corner from our hotel is the Tours Cathedral, and we visit it this morning before we head off on our drive to Normandie with our final destination of Avranches. The cathedral is Gothic in style, flying buttresses and...
Ciel de Paris: Lunch on Top of the World
Our visit to Ciel de Paris at the Tour Montparnasse was one of the features in followsummer’s 9 Things to do Off the Beaten Path in Paris It was an unusually rainy, soggy spring day in Paris… the kind of gloomy day you just...
Travel the Train to the Clouds
It is bright by 6:00 a.m., a bit overcast as we shower and get ready for our long day of touring Salta and Jujuy provinces. The bus arrives right on time, we meet our guide, Yako, pick up a few more, and we are off for 13 hours...
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Air Canada Purchase of Transat A.T. Inc. Could Be Imminent Air Canada is on the verge of acquiring Transat. In a move that will reverberate across the Canadian travel landscape, Transat AT Inc. today announced it has agreed to a...
A Travel Day: Pamukkale to Dalyan, Turkey
A travel day – 3 different buses, 8 hours in all, with a 90-minute break for lunch in Fethiye, on the Mediterranean. Haluk takes us (by another bus) into the town centre of Fethiye, famed for its ice cream. We have reached the...
Idyllic Views Toward Greece in Kas, Turkey
3 more buses, another 5 hours, and we arrive in Kas, a beautiful town on the Mediterranean. We stroll the streets, lounging in the waterfront cafés, and we think this could be the Italian Riviera. It is really quite romantic....
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With travel news about Expedia, InterContinental Hotels and Mexico Mexico Deploying Navy to Deal With Sargassum Invasion The battle against the continued invasion of sargassum on the coastal regions of Mexico will be handled this...
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WestJet launches Calgary-London Gatwick connection with new Dreamliner WestJet has launched a new Dreamliner service between Calgary and London Gatwick with the departure of WS1. The sold-out flight was a first for WestJet’s new...