The Crime Traveller

Jesus. Kangaroos. Fighter jets. All on the same trip. Think it’s impossible? You haven’t been to Israel. When I think of historical travel opportunities in Canada, images of frocked women churning butter at Black Creek Pioneer Village come to mind. Send me to Europe and I might be able to revert two millennia as I [...]

Before departing half-way around the world to Israel with a 5 and 7 year old on tow, one of my biggest concern was how the kids would handle the jet lag.  I had visions of angry exhausted children angrily bawling their eyes out as they were dragged from place to place in a sleepy stupor. [...]

I’ll admit to some real hesitation before my wife and I decided to pack up our daughters (ages 7 and 5) and haul them half-way across the world to spend nearly a month in Israel.  Today, as the metal door slid shut on our Lufthansa flight to Israel via Frankfurt, those doubts were front and centre.  [...]

I was never great in math but here are some numbers that every traveller should be concerned about. ‘Tax Dude” on the FlyerTalk Forums was looking to take advantage of  a recent Westjet seat sale.  Before pulling the trigger, he figured he’d check what Air Canada was offering for the same flight.  Not surprisingly, Air [...]

As a jaded technophile who has been carrying a blackberry since the original “blueberry” days, it takes a lot to surprise me when it comes to the purported world-altering power of Web 2.0 and Social Media constructs.  But today, I became a parishioner at the Church of Twitter and I now believe (Can I get [...]