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Ann WallaceCHASED BY EARLBeing there
07 SEP 2010: (Filed SEP 05) It's an old Chinese proverb (or, some believe, a curse) ... "may you live in interesting times". Well, Mother Nature had already presented me with an interesting situation when I was stranded in England earlier this year by the Icelandic volcano. Some of you read about it. Now Nature has dealt me another card ... I'm in Nova Scotia as Hurricane Earl does his work.
THE NAKED TRUTHWho’s up for Flying Pasties
17 AUG 2010: Call me naïve if you must. I can take it. But until last week I thought a pastie was a pastry turnover filled with meat and vegetables, a speciality of England’s west country, especially Cornwall. Not necessarily so, I now learn.
GOOD MORNINGThis is nobody speaking
22 JUL 2010: If the 360° see-through walls of the futuristic Airbus Concept Plane sounds scary (see yesterday’s story Into the Future), how do you feel about passenger planes flying without pilots?
SITTING DUCKSNews from the world of travel and advertising
20 JUL 2010: Passengers on a recent Horizon Air flight from Seattle to Portland received something they weren’t expecting: free food. It wasn’t exactly a tasty nutritious meal, but it was free. In fact, the passengers were the first audience ever to experience the newest medium for marketers courtesy of Air Advertainment.
BONNE NUITBut before snuggling in…
07 JUN 2010: Some of them came out in their slippers, pyjamas and dressing gowns. To trendy Brassaii Restaurant in downtown Toronto, no less. And very welcome they were made, not only by the restaurant’s efficient staff, but also by the guests at the event. We were gathered to greet our sleep-wear attired colleagues from Québec who were in Toronto to stage a mini-marketplace to promote some of the summer offerings in La Belle Province.
WHAT'S UPChecking their Crystal Balls
17 MAY 2010: Serious issues were on the agenda, and the setting was suitably august. No hip-hop, trendy location for us last Tuesday. We were a small group of media and travel industry members gathered for lunch and the fifth annual Leisure Travel Summit at the venerable University Club of Toronto; gathered to discuss travel – past, present and, especially, future – with a group of senior travel experts.
RIGHT THEREToday columnist Ann Wallace was stranded in London
28 APR 2010: “So … will it be referred to as an ‘ashcation’ or a ‘volcanation’?” My daughter and I are in a London pub, exchanging some banter with a group of friendly Brits who are obviously amused to have met some people stranded by the European ban on flying due to the Iceland volcano. We have large drinks in our hands. But it hadn’t all been fun.
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONEAir Canada Vacations gets exotic
30 MAR 2010: Air Canada Vacations unveiled their new brochure covering South America, the South Pacific and Asia to a group of agents and media yesterday. The setting was The Spice Route, a suitably exotic restaurant in downtown Toronto, where ACV president and CEO, Zeina Gedeon, Nino Montagnese, vice president sales and marketing, , Rob McChlery the newly appointed director of sales, and Aubrey Schmidt the new sales manager, International Product, spoke enthusiastically about all that is happening at ACV.
ON THE ROAD TO EVERYWHEREThis guy's been there, seen that
29 MAR 2010: Do your clients somewhat smugly consider themselves well-travelled? Do they have a list of countries they have visited - like an outlaw has notches on his gun belt? Are they confident that in their lifetime they will set foot in all 193 countries recognized by the United Nations, or are they already members of the Travel Century Club, an exclusive club open only to those who have visited 100 or more countries?
GOING GREENLandmark celebrations
23 MAR 2010: They did it on the London Eye and New York’s Empire State Building. They also did it on Sydney’s Opera House and on the Eiffel Tower in Paris. And they did it on Toronto’s CN Tower, too. Yes, to celebrate Ireland’s St. Patrick’s Day, all those unmistakable landmarks, in different corners of the world, were lit bright green.
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