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Booking the trip...

March 16th 2010 22:18
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I used to do all my own bookings but the past couple of trips, I've found it easier and same or better price to use a travel agent.

In this day of so much choice, maybe the specialist travel agent is making a resurgence.

It feels a bit lazy to let Donna do it, but the thing is, Donna does such a good job I can't resist.

For domestic flights, I do my own bookings online directly with the airline, but for anything longer, nah.
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Fantasy Travel

December 18th 2009 04:57
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The kind of travel I dream of and the kind of travel I experience are converging.

It seems no matter where I go, I am almost always thrilled and satisfied by the experience


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Gulliver at Dublin's Docklands

October 17th 2009 00:35
Photo Credit: infomatique on Flickr.com, with thanks, under CC Attribution Share-Alike license
I haven't ever been to Ireland, I'm afraid, but one day...

This picture is of a sculpture in sand at Dublin's Docklands, done in 2008 to celebrate Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift having been selected as Dublin's "One City, One Book" that year. The "One City, One Book" idea is that everyone in the city reads the same book. What a great way to get people talking to each other! Although, of all the countries that need an encouragement to converse, I wouldn't put Ireland at the top of the list


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Giant Cow Invades Wisconsin

August 22nd 2009 22:35
Photo Credit: "Patriotic Cow", by Mykl Roventine, shared on Flickr.com
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Giant Cow in Angelo, Wisconsin, July 1, 2007.


I like giant things. Who doesn't? They have to rank right up top of everyone's list of Favourite Roadside Attractions


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Photo Credit: addedentry, originally posted on Flickr.com
A Hotel Dog in Switzerland
Photo by addedentry, originally called "Hotel reception". Thanks for sharing this picture, addedentry.


Here in Calgary where I live, one of the top-end hotels has a resident dog for guests who miss having a furry friend greet them at the day's end, or who feel funny walking without a leash in hand


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Photo Credit: Steph & Adam on Flickr.com
Road trips in Canada, and probably in the USA, always have to include pictures of the biggest things.

I don't know Steph & Adam, who took this picture, but it is quite possibly the classic Canadian giant thing picture


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What a great concept: fake travel!

This photo comes from Arturo de Albornoz, who lives in Mexico and (I think) is in the advertising business there


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Don't Recline in Coach

January 11th 2009 00:53
I don't belong to a lot of Facebook groups (not by the mega-standards of some Facebook addicts, anyway), but one that I'm very happy to be a member of is "Don't Recline in Coach". I think I am member 6 out of 10 or so but it's my life's mission to promote the message.

Don't recline


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Web check-in is a great thing. You get the paperwork done at home, or at your hotel, and show up at the airport, bags in hand, ready to put them in the hold and board the plane.

There's a separate lineup (at least in the Canadian airports I've been through in the last year or so) for those with boarding passes


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Check the Odometer

January 4th 2009 18:33
Must remember to check the odometer reading on the car.

For two reasons


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