Botox, yeah baby!

Botox, yeah baby!

Excuse me if I don’t smile for the next 4 months I’ve just had my face selectively paralysed in the name of beauty, the pursuit of youth, and most importantly because it was something I hadn’t tried before. Actually I’m joking, not about the Botox, but about being able to smile. I can still smile. A doctor friend who youth-ens, beautifies, and generally clarifies people’s...

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Around the Airport in 80 Days

Around the Airport in 80 Days

Vancouver Airport (YVR) launches a contest to find a correspondent to live, eat and sleep at the airport for 80 Days ~ without leaving. Following in the footsteps of Queensland’s hugely successful viral campaign to fill the World’s Best Job, earlier this week Vancouver Airport launched a web-based contest to find a storyteller who would live at YVR for 80 days and 80 nights telling...

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A Dinner Party with a Difference

A Dinner Party with a Difference

Here’s a novel suggestion for your next dinner party (particularly if, like me, your cooking skills are limited to making toast and preparing cereal – which I do very well I might add!) : Invite your friends to your house and ask them to cook. Before you race to judge my dinner invitation as inhospitable and selfish, let me explain: I’ve never quite understood the traditional dinner party....

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Toilet Talk

Toilet Talk

Why talking about your bowel movements is common conversation on the road – and how I narrowly missed falling into the toilet! Fingers crossed, but I think I may have just bested my second stomach bug here in Guatemala. Round Two: Winner MSW. My first, when I was here in early December, gave me a beating I will long remember. It was a knockout; one that had me glued to my ringside seat day...

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Grease Pole Climbing

Grease Pole Climbing

I’d never heard of it before (and you know how that’s gets me excited!): grease pole climbing. I had my first taste of it yesterday at the Festival Italiano in Guelph, Ontario, Canada – proof positive that small towns (and not just big cities) have plenty to offer in terms of adventure and undiscovered experiences. Crudely surrounded by a couple of mattresses and scattered...

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Parisian Sub-culture

Parisian Sub-culture

Experience #126 On your next trip to Paris why scale the heights of the Eiffel Tower when you could be exploring the depths of the city’s catacombs? For a tourist destination on the dark side, walk the skull-lined corridors getting up close and personal with more than six million past Parisians.   I love Paris. Sorry, j’adore Paris. Although, I didn’t love it on my first trip and...

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