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Want a kooky three-wheeled car for your next roadtrip/picnic? In 2012, Peel Engineering, “home of the World’s Smallest Car,” is releasing two tiny, hand-built, retro-looking cars. These shiny new microcars are perfect for anglophiles, environmentalists, hitchhiker-haters, Mr. Bean’s runty illegitimate son, attention-starved hipsters, anti-social dwarves, those annoying guys who ride unicycles, or if you’re the…
Enraged by hidden baggage fees? Want to know what your flight really costs before you’re forced to pay $20 or more to check your luggage? Now there’s an app for that. Farelogix has launched a smartphone app called IFlyBags. It lets you calculate baggage fees from 325 airlines around the world, based on the class…
If you love zombie TV shows and films like THE WALKING DEAD and SHAUN OF THE DEAD, this vacation is for you… Now you can kill zombies in an abandoned UK shopping mall. An adventure company called Wish.co.uk is offering an adrenalin-fuelled experience called Zombie Shopping Mall. Usually the company sells once-in-a-lifetime experiences like skydiving,…
Whoa, been a lot of sky freakouts lately. Last week, I mentioned a flight attendant in Dallas who started freaking out before takeoff. The unnamed woman, who’d apparently gone off her meds, grabbed the PA mic and started yelling that the plane was going to crash. Which, you know, tends to disturb other passengers at…
Your dull flight to Cleveland is about to get wayyyy more social. In December, I wrote about KLM’s plans to let you pick your airplane seatmate by creeping on other passengers’ Facebook profiles. Their innovative/unsettling ‘Meet and Seat’ program will roll out some time in 2012, but only for KLM flights. Now a Hungarian startup,…
It’s been a brutal winter with no end in sight. In Vancouver, the forecast for the next 2 weeks calls for soggy, bone-chilling rain and/or snow…EVERY SINGLE DAY. And it’s starting to gnaw at our sanity. Nobody can remember what a big blue sky looks like. We can’t see the mountains through the fog, mist,…
Oh, man, I LOVE this: There’s now a series of 5K runs in which your biggest hurdles are zombies who want to devour your brains. This “zombie-infested 5K obstacle course race” is called Run For Your Lives. According to their website, it’s a “first-of-its-kind event, one part 5K, one part obstacle course, one part escaping…
Whew, my temples are throbbing today because of that tempting demon liquor. Last night I must’ve tasted a gallon of rare and award-winning reds at the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival. This annual week-long event is billed as “the best consumer wine show on the continent,” and serves as a key fundraiser for the…
Finally: at long last, I’ve found the perfect hotel rooms to experience (A) a total mental breakdown, and (B) a lengthy peaceful rehab. And to save on travel time, they’re exactly the same room. This schizophrenic suite is in the Au Vieux Panier hotel in Marseille, France. Each year, the hotel commissions artists, graphic designers,…
Ken Hegan 