Rideau Canal

Rideau Canal UNESCO World Heritage Site, Canada

From the Rideau Canal World Heritage inscription for the Rideau Canal: The Rideau Canal, a monumental early 19th-century construction covering 202 km of the Rideau and Cataraqui rivers from Ottawa south to Kingston Harbour on Lake Ontario, was built primarily for strategic military purposes at a time when Great Britain and the United States vied …

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This Week In Travel – Episode 67

This week’s guest is Johnny Jet. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Gary – 1) Google will keep moving into travel, as will Apple, 2) TSA will pull back, 3) Big year for travel bloggers Chris – 1) American will come back to Expedia and Orbitz, 2) Liquids ban will go away, 3) Will still make big …

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My multilingual summer in Barcelona

This guest post is written by Benny Lewis who blogs at FluentInThreeMonths.com where he encourages and helps people learn to speak foreign languages. I met Benny earlier this year in Bangkok and again in Las Vegas for BlogWorld Expo, where we took a side trip to visit the Hoover Dam. Benny currently speaks English, Esperanto, …

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2010: My Year in Travel

2010 is a year I am looking forward to putting behind me. The passing of my father was the single biggest event of the last year, which left a scar on everything. It will be difficult for 2011 to be worse. It was also a year in which I traveled both the more and less …

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