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Lost in Translation

Posted on 27. Mar, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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We have all seen them at some point during our global travels. I’m referring to the street sign, advertisement, instruction or safety warning rendered in badly mangled English. There are thousands of these fractured phrases on public display. People collect them, stick them in photo albums and post them on the Internet. Here are some of [...]

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South Seas Revival

Posted on 22. Mar, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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Buffeted by the wind and bucking in our seats, we hang on tight as the speedboat pounds across the glittering, blue water. Our Fijian pilot, Joseph, decked out in a crimson baseball cap and black wraparound sunglasses, only slightly darker than his skin, turns and smiles and gestures toward the horizon. “Malolo,” he says. The dreamy [...]

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Taking Flight

Posted on 19. Mar, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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On March 5, 2008, the halls at the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre reverberated with the sound of First Nations’ singing and drumming as the venue hosted the fifth Aboriginal Tourism Association of British Columbia (ATBC) awards gala. The musical entertainment, which spanned a variety of styles ranging from evocative traditional dance to a blazing [...]

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Eccentricstan

Posted on 13. Mar, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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A few months ago, I interviewed two guys from Regina named Jason Minvielle and Mike Vaughan, who had just competed in the Mongol Rally, a 16,000-kilometre race for junker cars that starts in London, England and ends in the Mongolian capital, Ulan Bator. Gamely chugging along in their 1993 Geo Metro, the intrepid duo motored [...]