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    Munich in 3 Days

    ByThe Skeptical Traveler August 22, 2012June 5, 2024

    Ernest Hemingway: “You needn’t bother going anywhere else. I can tell you: you can’t beat Munich, everything else in Germany is a waste of time.” If I had to say very quickly 3 things I knew about Munich, they would have been: the city where National Socialism rose to power, BMW, and during the 1972…

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    WestJet, No Longer All Passengers Equal

    ByThe Skeptical Traveler August 11, 2012June 5, 2024

    I have just read an article about WestJet in Globe and Mail: “For years, WestJet Airlines Ltd. proudly proclaimed that all of its passengers were equal. Now, some are just a little more equal than others, as WestJet looks to court business travellers with the kind of perks – including preferential seating for corporate customers…

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    London (nothing about Olympics)

    ByThe Skeptical Traveler August 7, 2012June 5, 2024

    I like the museums in London, mostly because they are free. English archer at the National Army Museum, he is bare-legged, because of … dysentery. When they saw the French cavalry attacking they must have been sh…ing themselves literally and figuratively. This gave a new meaning to no retreat, no step back, as no-one wanted to step on…

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    $50 from ING Direct and at least 17 Air Canada eUpgrade Credits from me

    ByThe Skeptical Traveler August 1, 2012June 5, 2024

    ING Direct Canada has a promotion* (only for Canadian residents) this summer. If you use my Orange Key 17148482S1 to open an account account with $100 or more in it you will get $50 and I will get $50 (sorry about that) too. More details here: www.ingdirect.ca/doublebonus. Also, as I thank you I will give…

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    HotelTonight ‘the biggest innovation in online hotel booking since online hotel booking’ ?

    ByThe Skeptical Traveler August 1, 2012June 5, 2024

    At least this is what comes up after a search on Google. HotelTonight is an hotel booking app, designed for same-day bookings and promises savings up to 70 percent off. I don’t know about the biggest innovation but I was curious whether it is the best app to use for last minute (literally) hotel booking. So…

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    United vs Air Canada – $339 vs $908

    ByThe Skeptical Traveler July 31, 2012July 31, 2012

    These are the taxes for UA and AC for a business class award flight to Europe, same departure and return city. Of course, the itinerary is different, longer for UA but travelling business class a few hours extra should not matter :). Of course, it is very easy to book AC on the Aeroplan website  (I am…

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    Target ‘Park Plaza Bloomington’ (50,000 bonus Gold Points promotion)

    ByThe Skeptical Traveler July 30, 2012June 5, 2024

    I still have the confirmation e-mail* in my inbox and it bothers me that my options with regard to this promotion are very limited (almost non-existent). I mean I managed to get the other Club Carlson promotions (Mission Accomplished) but this one seems unreachable. However, I have thought of something: my plan is to have…

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    Japan This and That

    ByThe Skeptical Traveler July 27, 2012June 5, 2024

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c98qdFQF7sw  Yes, I did pat the statue. At some of the places I visited you had to leave the shoes out. They say Japan is a safe country and I did not mind leaving the shoes there until I saw this sign. And I started to get very worried about my shoes. So sometimes they…

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    Japan (some) Museums

    ByThe Skeptical Traveler July 26, 2012June 5, 2024

    ‘We have only this for dinner, you should have hunted something.’     A Zero  

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    Japanese Food and Free Beer

    ByThe Skeptical Traveler July 25, 2012June 5, 2024

    I had the free beer at the restaurant La Flamme d’Or at the Asahi Beer Hall, one of the buildings of the Asahi Breweries. The Asahi Flame is often colloquially referred to as “the golden turd” and the Asahi Beer Hall itself as “poo building” by many Tokyo residents.  It was a rainy Saturday taking cover…

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