As I did the draw for my promotion I was curious about the contest ‘Played Star Alliance Game, retail value of 1st prize $375,000 – closes June 14‘ I wrote about some time ago. Perhaps I was one of the winners and I did not know :). Diego, if you happen by chance to read…
The ING Direct promotion I announced it here finished on Aug. 31 and 3 readers used my Orange Key. I said in the post ‘$50 from ING Direct and at least 17 Air Canada eUpgrade Credits from me’ and to be clearer I will give enough eUpgrades to cover an overnight flight, but not more than 30…
Look what I have found and bought :). I wanted to bring it home too, but I transited via the U.S. (yes, no choice here United vs Air Canada – $339 vs $908) and I was afraid I would be stopped and it wasn’t worth to do any research to see whether the product is legal or not. As…
The Hotel Cornavin has the biggest mechanical clock in the world, with a total length of 30 meters; we are in Switzerland so somehow expected 🙂 but surprised it is still a world record, I would have thought the record would be somewhere in Asia or in the oil countries from the Middle East. However, this wasn’t the…
Chateau de Chillon is a must see place; no surprise it is ranked #2 of 16 attractions in Montreux on tripadvisor. Tip: With the Riviera Card the admission fee is CHF6 instead of the adult price CHF12. I did not know about this as this rate is not displayed at the castle’s entrance, I found out only…
The Chocolate Train was on my list and it already had been budgeted for 🙂 (198 CHF – around 208 USD for 2 tickets). The reviews on tripadvisor were very good (out of 27, 16 were excellent) … but I decided to read the not so good reviews and one drew my attention. Chocolate Train do…
The train to Rochers-de-Naye departs every hour from Montreux station and it takes some 55 minutes. If you stay at a hotel in Montreux you will get a free travel card (Montreux Riviera Card) that covers buses and trains as well so for the trip you need to pay only for the distance that is outside of the…
I have just come across this contest and I would like to share it with you. I think the initiative is a great idea, and all of us when we travel and visit other places like to take pictures of monuments. “Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) is a public photo competition around cultural heritage monuments, organized by Wikimedia…
The “flying wing” concept, proposed by a team headed by Ge-Chen Zha, an aerospace engineer at Florida State University, has won $100,000 in NASA funding to trying becoming a reality for future passenger jet travel (from InnovationNewsDaily). “I am hoping to develop an environmentally friendly and economically viable airplane for supersonic civil transport in the next…
This is another contest that involves Facebook, but just yesterday I entered the contest to win 1 million HHonors points so if this is the price to win something (i.e. let all these apps access my info, and all seem to need it) let it be. “How far would you go with 750,000 Aeroplan Miles? That’s the Grand Prize of…