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The Hotel Memorabilia

Posted on 29. Aug, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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Travellers motoring along the Trans-Canada Highway west of Revelstoke, B.C., are often astonished to see a large complex of red-roofed buildings suddenly appear like a scene from the Mediterranean. The 200-room hotel, called Three Valley Lake Chateau, is the creation of Gordon Bell, a hard-driving visionary, who made an indelible impression on every one he encountered. [...]

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Did You Know?

Posted on 27. Aug, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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Did you know that Canada possesses the world’s largest wildlife game sanctuary, or that mobster Al Capone once had a secret hideout located beneath the streets of Moose Jaw, or that Alberta boasts the world’s only official Flying Saucer Landing Pad? These are just a few of the surprising factoids that I discovered while perusing the [...]

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Stairway to Heaven

Posted on 26. Aug, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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At 3:30 a.m., I am rudely jolted from my sleep by a door-thumping wake-up call. Through the walls of my room I can hear the whinnying of horses–the Tenggerese guides have arrived. After donning several layers of clothing, I step out into the Javanese night. Although we are only 800 kilometres south of the equator, the [...]

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And the Beat Goes On

Posted on 20. Aug, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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From time to time, travel publications such as National Geographic Traveller and Outside magazine publish lists of the greatest travel books of all time. Typically, these rankings include the exotic dispatches of Paul Theroux, Bruce Chatwin, Pico Iyer, Jonathan Raban and Wilfred Thesiger. Conspicuously absent from most of these lists is the travel book that [...]