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By Ken Hegan for MSN I had a weird and amazing ferry experience this month. First, a little background. Billed as “one of the world’s largest integrated marine enterprises,” BC Ferries runs 35 passenger & vehicle vessels that cruise 25 routes to 47 terminals. If you live on Vancouver Island, one of the Gulf Islands,…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Did you hear the one about the grumpy flight attendant? Here’s some good news: if your flight from L.A. to London was delayed or cancelled because of a bomb threat, it wasn’t from a militant terrorist organization like Al-Qaeda. No, just a guy from Southern California who was training to…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Got a beef with how a city’s being run? You can march around City Hall wearing a sandwich board that advertises your grievances. Or you can try the South Korean method of yelling into a giant, 2.44-metre (8-foot) ear. Outside City Hall in Seoul, Korea, an artist named Yang Soo-in…
By Ken Hegan for MSN If you love movies as much as you love Paris, this new app will blow your film buff mind. Cinemacity lets you jump into your favourite Paris movie scenes. It’s a free app (available for iPhone, iPad, and Android) that invites you on unusual walking tours throughout Paris. When you…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Worried that your ping pong skills will suffer while you’re on holiday in the UK this August? No fear because England is offering 500+ outdoor ping-pong tables for you to play on free of charge. Here’s an action photo that both excites and terrifies me. The ambitious country-wide initiative, entitled…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Hopefully you’ve booked a vacation day for this Thursday because August 15th is the annual celebration of tranquility. The origins of National Relaxation Day are pretty fuzzy (rumour says it was inspired by National Slacker Day in the UK). But I’m okay with not knowing where it came from. National…
By Ken Hegan for MSN This is it. The biggest week of the year for fans of AMC’S critically-acclaimed Breaking Bad series. After a torturous 12-month wait, the final eight episodes begin Sunday August 11th. Never seen the show? Set in dusty Albuquerque, New Mexico, Breaking Bad is a harrowing drama about a mild-mannered high…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Check this out…it’s a hotel room suspended above a vineyard. Fall out of bed — or drink too much Malbec — and you’ll crush some grapes or be impaled on a vine stake.
By Ken Hegan for MSN Need a boat in a hurry? Maybe you want to impress your boss, host a party, flee a Sharknado, elude the bloodhounds, visit a magical hidden island that’s only accessible by water, fool your girlfriend’s parents with an elaborate ruse, escape a zombie horde, and/or dump a bag of bloody…
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