By Ken Hegan for MSN Travel How do you like to pay for your hotel room? Credit? Debit? Cash? Shame-based sex (my preference)? Or maybe you prefer to leave a tasteful painting of a fruit bowl or, say, a giant oil painting of bare-chested warriors chasing bison off a cliff? If art is your currency,…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Travel This is it: we’ve hit the lowest depths of winter. In Vancouver this week, harsh icy weather has caused power outages and scared commuters by making a bus jackknife down Broadway. My convertible’s buried in snow [I know, right? Nothing could be sadder], and giant ice boulders plummeted from bridge cables…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Travel Are you a frequent flyer who’s sick of jet lag and insomnia? Do you suffer from Winter Blues during these long, cold, wretched months? Do you have trouble sleeping because you work graveyard shifts at the casino? Have you been diagnosed with Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder? And are you so exhausted that…
By Ken Hegan for Toro magazine So I’m training to be the World’s Greatest Lover by learning slick moves from filthy, clever sexperts. This week: Christmas came early when I opened the mailbox to find a deck of ‘101 Sex Positions’ cards. I ordered these weeks ago. And by ordered, I mean, I demanded the…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Travel Beers are on them! A Chicago judge has declared that Southwest Airlines must buy up to 5.8 million beers for its passengers. The settlement could be worth $29 million USD. In October 2007, Southwest (the USA’s biggest low-cost airline) started giving free alcohol vouchers to customers who’d purchased premium-priced “Business…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Travel Dreaming of a hot winter getaway? Take a vacation in Iraq! The FAA just lifted its 16-year ban on American planes flying into Kurdistan in Northern Iraq. Starting this January, American commercial planes will once again be allowed to fly into international airports at Erbil and Sulaymaniyah. Awesome! I’m going…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Travel Found a great study about women and men at airports. Researchers discovered women are nearly six times more likely to think that finding an airport power outlet for their laptop or phone is more important than finding an attractive, potential mate. Now, I have no idea why a woman…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Travel Very cool! Virgin Airlines has built a professional recording studio for musicians travelling through Heathrow Airport. So while you wait for your flight to Nashville, New York, or L.A., you can record an album, edit and mix it, then email or upload it to your producer who’s been desperately…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Travel Want a fun mid-winter Canadian getaway? It’s called Rowena’s Inn, you’ve never heard of it before, and you’ll find it on a massive 160-acre estate (with its own air strip!) close to the tiny town of Harrison Mills, BC about 1.5 hours east of Vancouver along the tranquil Harrison…
By Ken Hegan for Toro magazine If you believe in happily ever after, this study may depress the hell out of you. According to a study of 2,000 married women, less than half of these women say their husband is the best lay they’ve ever had. So either most wives think their best sex is…