Tag: Travel
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How I Met My Wife Halfway In Zhengzhou China
How I met my wife halfway…Elegant Confusion………Being delivered by car (my wife’s friend and a co-worker) to the Hotel in the downtown area of Zhengzhou, bursting along the byways and expressways from the Airport, cars around us dancing across the indistinct markings of the lanes in what could be described as a level of a…
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Top Reasons Why So Many Tourists Visit Jamaica
As the cold weather and winter arrives back to North America and Covid is (hopefully) finally behind us, it’s time to start setting travel records again. For example, 2017 saw a record number of tourist arrivals in Jamaica, with 4.3 million vacationers. That was a huge 21.1% increase from the previous year and that trend…
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Pitfalls Of Moving To Another Country To Save Money
After job losses and the mortgage meltdown of 2008, Karin Esterhammer, her husband, and their 8-year-old (autistic) son fled Los Angeles to start over in an unlikely place: a nine-foot-wide back-alley in one of Ho Chi Minh City’s poorest districts, where neighbors unabashedly started into windows, generously shared their barbecued rat, kept cockroaches for luck,…
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How Cell Phone Behavioral Data Can Help Save Our Planet
Zurich, Switzerland- A report from a few years ago deserves a second look. That study demonstrated how leveraging mobile network data can estimate levels of carbon emissions and air pollution in cities, an approach that could substantially reduce the cost of implementing the Paris Agreement. The study analyses mobility patterns derived from mobile network data…
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Why Utah’s Five National Parks Are On Many Bucket Lists
Canada has some world leading parks but our neighbours to the South sure have their fair sure as well. Utah’s five National Parks featured on Utah.com offer adventure travelers and families a unique blend of accessibility and grandeur that have put these beauties on bucket lists since their birth a hundred years ago. Utah’s magnificence…
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Bieber’s Hawaii Vacation Hangout Going To Auction
One of Hawaii’s most photographed and celebrity-popular homes with postcard views of a 240-foot natural waterfall, a sports stadium with seating for 450 people, a nine-tee golf course, an aquatic center, a two-story water slide, and some of Hawaii’s best ocean views is going to auction. Read more about this stunning slice of Hawaii. Shout…
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“Kardashian Penthouse” Hilton-Bentley Miami Available For Stays
The AAA 4 Diamond award winning Hilton Bentley South Beach recently debuted a newly renovated 3000 sq. feet penthouse suite with gorgeous wrap around views overlooking the ocean and the beautiful southern tip of South Beach, where the ocean meets the bay at South Pointe Park. This two story suite is complete with two master…
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2022 And NOT Another Year Closer To Private company Asteroid Mining
It’s been eight years since an historic landing took place between an European Space Agency drone and a comet.(which looked suspiciously a lot like an asteroid to us!) At that time a report from Deep Space Industries laid out their business plans up to 2020 and what they had committed to sounded more like science…
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Wear USB Condoms- Hackers Are Poised To Attack Tourists This Travel Season
As the 2022 school year comes to an end, the surge of summer travel plans begins. With an estimated 60% of Canadians and Americans planning at least one trip over the next 3 months, hackers have roughly 200,000,000 projected tourists to prey on. Lookout’s Cyber Security Expert, Hank Schless, shares how these cyber-attacks usually capitalize…
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This Kick Scooter Converts From Backpack To Longboard
Kick scooter, pronounced ‘geek scooter.’ Kick scooters are gaining popularity in many populous urban and suburban areas worldwide. As Europe leans toward sustainable mobility, more and more creative ideas are addressing the issue of daily commuting. Designed and engineered in a home garage in Ljubljana, Slovenia, the OLAF Kick Scooter is one such attempt to…
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Travel To Sustainability Pioneer Tongsai Bay
On a regular basis The Silo informs you about companies who do their part in changing our world to a better place. Green Pearls® Unique Places is dedicated to the Tongsai Bay in Thailand and recognizes the amazing work that created a sustainable tourism industry there nearly four decades ago. How it all began In…
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Noteworthy Gifts And Gadgets To Improve Your Summer And Beyond
With upcoming summer temperatures in North America forecast as “lingering on the high end of the spectrum”, many are still out and about enjoying the longer days and extra leisure time. Of course, during the summer our desire for gadgets and gear that eases our travels, enhances our self-care regime, and just makes life more…
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Navigating The Treacherous Khyber Pass In My Citroën 2CV4
It’s June 1976- I just crossed the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Because the Khyber Pass is on the Pakistani side I have to change driving from right to left in my Citroën 2CV4. As being a Dutchman, I only have a mirror on the left side of my car. That shows to be far…
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Top 10 European Ski Destinations
Fancy staying on a home exchange this wintry Spring and stretching your skiing budget? Here are the top 10 European ski destinations chosen by HomeExchange Members. Stay near or in a resort, borrow ski accessories for kids and save on accommodation costs. There’s really something for everyone, from Jacuzzis to sledges and beautiful views to…
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An Evolution Of Canadian Shopping Consumers Distributing Style
As a technology writer for the Silo, I am always focusing and thinking about the evolution of technology. I write about how computers and video games have changed over the years, but of course, many other things change around us and the one I have been thinking about a lot lately is shopping. ( Consumers…
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Finest Coffee And Coconut Oil From Dominican Republic
Everyone already knows Kimera Koffee’s for its finest ground coffee, highest quality beans, and some of the best flavors on the market. Now Kimera Koffee is growing the family with its limited edition Phase 1 Peaberry Whole Bean Koffee and Kimera Koconut Oil. The Kimera Koffee Pase 1 Peaberry Whole Bean Koffee is grown in…
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North America’s Great Lakes Are A World Class Destination
During my recent tenure as Parliamentary Assistant to the Ontario Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry, I researched the status of our Great Lakes building on work I was involved in 20 years ago when I was then also Parliamentary Assistant to the Ministry of Natural Resources. At that time, much of the ministry’s work…
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M5 Electric Scooter Is Foldable Fun
Imagine spending pennies on electricity instead of hundreds of dollars on gas during the busiest travel season. On the new, fully-electric M5 E-Scooter from EcoReco, a mere one dollar will power the scooter for approximately 500 miles. The M5 is perfect for short-distances and last-mile commutes. They also work well on corporate campuses, and for…
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Comfy CANADIAN Nudy Patooty Transformative Undergarments
It may only be the second week of August but we Canadians know that the days are growing shorter. As we approach Fall and Winter and the weather starts becoming cooler, one of the best ways to layer is using Nudy Patooty’s bamboo undergarments and basics under your clothing. Nudy Patooty is COMFY NUDY PATOOTY…
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NightSwapping Is New Euro Model of Sustainable Tourism
In a time when the sharing economy is generalizing eco-friendly solutions for a sustainable development, a European startup has brought up to date one of the oldest tourism ideas in the world to lower the carbon footprint on your next vacation. It’s called swapping or more precisely, NightSwapping. A simple idea that is enjoyed for its…
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River Water Levels Are Favorite Discussion Among Ontario Paddlers
SUP- Stand up paddling is a popular sport along the Grand River system. image: grandriverrafting.ca Is the water level in the river going to be okay for canoeing or kayaking on any given weekend? This is a common question that people call the GRCA to ask. It is also an important question. Usually what they…
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Ten years ago- Batman Arkham City released
Batman: Arkham City Review – Rated T (for Xbox and Play Station) Welcome ! I am going to begin this review with a confession: I am a retro gaming fan and somehow have missed out on a number of wonderfully aging titles. In fact, I had never played Batman: Arkham Asylum. It’s not that I…
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Marriage Proposals While Orbiting Moon By 2022
Starting in 2022 it will be possible to ask for the beloved’s hand in marriage while flying over the lunar surface to the sound of Frank Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon”. The one-week interplanetary flight will be carried out using a self-contained and autonomous spacecraft allowing the two lovers to travel alone. The ApoteoSurprise…
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Why We all should be consuming fats but not GMOs
When Dr. John Salerno – a protégé of “Atkins Diet” creator Dr. Robert Atkins – testified before the U.S.D.A. about plans for its most recent Food Pyramid revision, he spoke his mind: The food industry is corrupt and has supported recommendations that do not support the population’s health. “Hidden sugar, preservatives and highly processed white…
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The Canada Goose
CANADA GOOSE aka Branta canadensis The Giant Canada Goose is one of the most common and widespread species of goose in North America. It is most easily identified by its brownish-grey body, long black neck with a black head, and white patches on the face. Canada Geese live around ponds, rivers and lake shores, and…
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NFL’er Designed A Sink Tray For Small Bathroom Space
Whether you live in a dorm room, small apartment or a family home, counter space around the bathroom sink can be limited. A unique product designed and patented by an NFL Super Bowl Champion solves that problem. The Smart Sink Tray, by Style Pro 31, is a convenient, portable, lightweight foldout tray that fits over…
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France Has Reopened Borders To Canadian Travelers
In case you missed it, on June 30, France and the other Member States of the European Union adopted a recommendation on the reopening of Europe’s external borders from July 1, 2020, to a first list of fourteen countries, including Canada, Japan, South Korea, Australia [this may not be the case considering Covid developments there the…
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Premium Passports Lose Their Shine In Post Pandemic World
As parts of the globe cautiously begin to open up, the focus is on what travel freedom and global mobility will look like in a post–Covid-19 world. Last week the EU released a list of countries whose residents would be allowed entry into the bloc from 1 July based on coronavirus-related health and safety criteria. Included…