I had read about the launch of Cuba Cruises and this reminded me to post the photos (with comments of course) I took in Cuba while on a cycling tour. I did the the tour some 5 years ago and I forgot the name of the company that organized the tour but there must be…
I have just read an article Canadian businesses fuming as border guards let shoppers skip fees. I have not done any cross border shopping, but I wrote a short post about it Cross-border shopping (a sort of travel). I wonder why Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) does not implement a system of paying the duties…
The employer reimburses the hotel and airfare. Couldn’t they request that all points accrued while on business trips by their employees be used only for business trips? After all they paid for them. And it is not like people would start resigning because they don’t like the new policy (I wouldn’t) not to mention that…
I was staying at a Fairmont, and I got the bad habit to go to the lobby in the morning and get some coffee from there as it was much better than the coffee I could make in the room, not that I am a coffee drinker, go figure! Once I woke up very early,…
The music and the lyrics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5TwT69i1lU “I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom, for me and you. And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue, And clouds of white. The bright blessed day, The dark sacred night. And I think to myself, What a…
Gimli is a a town in Manitoba, Canada situated on the west side of Lake Winnipeg, the 11th largest freshwater lake in the world. They have beaches there and no wonder the lake being so huge it felt like an ocean. Gimli means “Great Hall of Heaven” in ancient Norse mythology and I visited the…
I logged into my Aeroplan account to select ‘my privileges’ for the Air Canada Altitude program and there a message: “Now you can vote for Air Canada Altitude as the Best Airline Elite Program for the Americas. …” So why not, I thought, and I submitted my ballot choosing Air Canada and Aeroplan wherever I…
I recently wrote about the service from Canada Post to send a postcard anywhere in the world wherever you are and I wanted to test it by sending a postcard to … me. I went for a custom design and you have various options to use photos from: At one step I had the message: “The…
I used to have 1 or 2 drinks in the lounge and in the business class, they are free I reasoned so why not. After a while I stopped drinking almost completely, I should not drink just because they are free I reasoned again. I should listen to my body and my body did not…
First of all, is there anyone sending postcards any more? I cannot remember when I sent a postcard last time. It is so complicated to send a postcard nowadays, buy the postcard, the stamp, mail it and at the end be left with the nagging feeling that the postcard will get lost so all your…