February 05, 2014
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It's Sooo Sochi

Yesterday Putin nestled a leopard in his lap for the cameras – ostensibly to show his cuddly side. The leopard then turned on the journalists, biting and scratching them — demonstrating once again, dahrlings, that a big pussy in the…

January 31, 2014
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We Are So Not Chinese

Billions of Chinese are crisscrossing the country as we speak, Pumpkins. Planes, trains, automobiles and cruise lines are adding capacity as fast as you can say Gung Hey Fat Choi! The New Year celebrations in China last 40 days.…

January 28, 2014
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They Love Us, They Love Us Not

It’s really no wonder I’m feeling psychopathologically unbalanced these days, Pumpkins. One minute I read that travel agents are as unwanted as an aging diva at her hunky chauffeur’s stag party. (I’m sure he said I could come.) And the…

January 22, 2014
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Selling Travel Sucks

You know what your problem is, Pumpkins? Time. Selling travel is probably the biggest time suck on the planet. That’s why you don’t have any. Explaining and encouraging, in great detail, how, where, why, when and which way –…

January 16, 2014
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Selfie Is As Selfie Does

I used to really be into selfies, Pumpkins, but now I find my hand gets tired. Even the battery operated toys bore me. Ha! Bore me! Never mind. But I really don’t know what all the fuss is about taking…

January 09, 2014
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The End Of The Cheapo?

Well Pumpkins, if we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard it a thousand times – Book Early! Our resorts are being overrun by Russians, South Americans, and gasp … Americans. They’re back. Sunwing’s dahrling Dawson (the coy little thing knows…

January 06, 2014
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Is It 2014 Yet?

Well, Pumpkins, 2013 has packed up and left along with the relatives. Thankfully. The year was starting to smell like the leftover herring. Was it a good one? Not as momentous as the millennium, but just as eventful for itravel.…

December 20, 2013
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Bah, Humbug

There’s far too much hugging and kissing at this time of year, Pumpkins. And not the good kind – I’m confronted with the sensible, sober kind at every turn. “Oh no, here comes Howard from accounting!” It’s all nonsense anyway because out…

December 17, 2013
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Hip Hip & Hurrah For Our Fearless Leaders!

Oh yessiree. And here I thought Gregg Saretsky was just another pretty airline face. The man has depth, Pumpkins. Deepness. Profundity. He recently gave the National Post an interview on WestJet’s growing pains that was so clear and straightforward,…