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What do you look for in a potential travel destination?
Comfortable hotels, friendly people, a variety of sights activities and value for money usually rate well on a traveller’s list, and they all describe Vancouver, British Columbia. Voted the most livable city in the World by The Economist in 2005, Vancouver hosts the Winter Olympics [...]

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Pack light, it is my travel creed but I always needed a laptop to hold the hundreds of photos I take on a trip. It pulled double duty to check email or watch a video but mostly it is 4lbs extra to carry everywhere. I needed a smaller device that handled those tasks with [...]

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JetBlue, the low-cost carrier who stranded thousands of passengers last week, is working hard to restore their reputation for low-cost but quality air travel. The recently announced Customer Bill of Rights is a step in the right direction but should you put your travel karma in their hands?
While other airlines toss you peanuts, [...]

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Named the ‘Best Trans-Atlantic Airline’ by Global Traveler magazine, Air France begins direct flights from Seattle to Paris in June. Pacific Northwest Francophiles can emerse themselves in the French experience as soon as the cabin doors are closed on the Air France Airbus A330-200 for the ten hour flight.

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‘Every aircraft is subtly different…‘, a common warning used to capture your attention for the flight attendant’s safety briefing. To the average passenger, the subtle differences are different seat fabrics and the content of the mini snack pack that has replaced a meal on most US domestic flights. Regular travellers understand the those subtle [...]

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