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Video: "Stuff" skiers say
I'm in Lake Tahoe--California and Nevada's premier ski destination--visiting my brother and his family. My teenage nephew, a member of the Olympic Valley Freeride & Freestyle Team, turned me on to this farcical video about things skiers say. If you're a skier--or ...
Hotel in Vancouver, Canada, puts a new spin on in-room iPads
No need to worry about tipping your tour guide on your next trip to Vancouver, Canada, as the OPUS Vancouver hotel has recently added iPads to each of their 96 guest rooms to act as personal tour guides of the city. While the trend of adding tablets to hotel rooms is not a ...Photo of the Day: Snow Covered Coastal Moutains
Flickr member James Wheeler is back with this Photo of the Day from Kitsilano, Vancouver, BC, CA, using a Nikon D5000 and tells us
"Vancouver and the west coast of Canada are known for their rainy winters. So, even though the coastal mountains are snow covered ...Secret supper prohibition-era restaurant pops up in Vancouver, Canada
For three evenings only, Swallow Tail Canada will once again be hosting their Secret Supper Soiree in Vancouver, British Columbia, in Canada. While guests can expect a classy 1930's-inspired underground bar, murder mysteries, transportation in a timeless double decker bus, ...Photo of the Day: Western skies
There's something indescribably calming about looking over a body of water at sunrise. Flickr user James Wheeler captures this feeling in today's Photo of the Day, taken at 6 a.m. from an old pier in the West Point Grey district of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ...Video: Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time
"Sometimes when you cook swedishly, the meal is destroyed. This is natural."
Did you grow up watching the Swedish Chef on "The Muppet Show?" I loved that guy. Do you find everything about "foodies" and the Food Network obnoxious and tedious? Yeah, me too. Allow me then, ...
Photo of the Day: Lake Louise from above
Tonight's Photo of the Day depicts the stuff dreams are made of for hikers.
Flickr member AlphaTangoBravo / Adam Baker brings this shot from Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada, in the Lake Louise and Icefields area of Banff National Park. In what is also known as the ...Nik Wallenda: the daredevil who will tightrope across Niagara Falls
Nik Wallenda is a 32-year-old Florida native who plans to walk on a tightrope across Niagara Falls this summer. He's a seventh generation daredevil who performs with his wife, and a dozen other Wallenda family relatives at venues around the world. We caught up with Nik ...An ice wine crawl in Niagara-on-the-Lake
I love my family and visit them often, but after a few days at my parents' house, I'm usually in need of a drink. For many years, my refuge has been the Niagara Wine region, centered around Niagara-on-the-Lake, a well-preserved, picturesque town on Lake Ontario, just ...Toronto, Canada, hotel features a new kind of art using sexy male athletes
While you can usually expect a nice landscape painting or maybe even a piece from a well-known abstract artist on your hotel room walls, the Hôtel Le Germaine Maple Leaf Square in Toronto, Canada, puts a new spin on hotel art by featuring sexy portraits of athletic ...New budget travel magazine debuts: Off Track Planet moves into print
Off Track Planet, a Brooklyn-based online budget travel publication, takes its f-bomb dropping idiom into print today with the debut of an eponymous magazine.
Off Track Planet, for the uninitiated, is geared toward the 18-30 set and is particularly focused on ...Photo of the Day: Kawartha Canoes
Flickr member James Wheeler brings us this photo taken Nipissing, Ontario, CA, using a Nikon D5000.
James tells us "Three Kawartha canoes make for a good photo on the shore of Spectacle lake on the east side of Algonquin park."
Upload your best shots to the ...Four top treats from my 2011 travels
Since I've been a travel writer for three decades, people often ask me if I don't get tired of all the traveling and writing. After all, when you do anything for 30 years, it must get boring, right?
Wrong! I guess that's one of the gifts of this line of work. Every ...Where they ate: chefs' and food/travel writers' best meals of 2011, part II
I ate well this year. Maybe better than any other year. I spent a week in Hoi An, Vietnam eating cau lau--an obscure noodle dish that technically can only be made in the small coastal town. I ate my way through Barcelona, dining at restaurants whose chefs had a ...Video of the day: sunset in Ontario
Nothing lifts the weight of any given life stress for me more than the beauty of undulating, glowing clouds dancing around at sunset. I find that the sky is often times my reset button; an excuse to rid my mind of any burdens and get lost in something that is a constant, ...
Budget travel: Megabus is giving away 200,000 free tickets
Because transportation is often one of the most expensive parts about traveling, it's always nice to get a free ride. And for people traveling around the United States and Toronto from January 4 through March 1, 2012, Megabus is giving away 200,000 free seats.
Megabus, ...Burgess Shale online exhibition brings 500 million year-old sea back to life
The Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada, preserves an amazing collection of fossils of sea creatures from the Cambrian period. This was a time dating from 488 to 542 million years ago, when complex creatures were beginning to evolve but before the dinosaurs existed. ...Video of the Day: Urban skiiing
Despite the oddly warm weather we're experiencing in the Northeast right now, it is technically the start of ski season is many part of the country. However, it can be difficult to get to a proper ski destination whether due to finances, lack of time or friends who flake ...
Photo of the day - Toronto turkey
It's Thanksgiving today in America, and thus time for the obligatory turkey-related photo. Our friends over at Matador called our attention to this turkey-shaped building in Canada, of all places. The University of Toronto's John P. Robarts research library was designed to ...Alice in Wonderland pop-up restaurant opens in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
And, you probably thought Alice in Wonderland was just a fairytale. Not anymore, as Swallowtail Canada presents their pop-up restaurant, Down the Rabbit Hole, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from November 24-December 17, 2011.
Diners will not just enjoy delicious ...
