August 11, 2016
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Itchy Business

Two major airlines have refused to let passengers board over concerns about rashes. Holy bushwhack, Batman! You can’t board a flight cause of a rash? What’s next? Dandruff? Halitosis? In my experience, half the plane would be denied boarding. Honestly,…

July 20, 2016
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Do I Look Scared?

Am I scared? Do Serbs have bull ball cooking festivals? You bet your sweet petunias, I’m scared, dahrlings. Genghis Khan would wince at the carnage reported in our daily news. When the Boulevard des Anglais becomes the boulevard of horror…

June 29, 2016
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Travel Hinterland’s Who’s Who

Toronto’s High Park Zoo recaptures its fugitive Capybara on the same day Mark Linton reemerges in travel insurance. Coincidence, dahrlings? The capybara (of the genus Hydrochoerus) is a social animal known to be gregarious, although sometimes solitary. It lives in forests and near bodies…

June 01, 2016
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Open Jaw & Insert Foot

Pumpkins, it’s been an absolute fraternity since we’ve given out a coveted Open Jaw Insert Foot Award. But fear not! Etihad has opened its maw so wide, you could park a whole Airbus in there in addition to a foot.…

May 24, 2016
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May 19, 2016
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Scrappy Ways

Well, well, well … I do love a man with a bit of metal in his moxy, dahrlings. Some pewter in his peter. A speck of brass in his bellicose. But I’m not sure it belongs in the legislature. Yes,…

May 16, 2016
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Speaking In Tongues

Today much of Europe is shut down, Pumpkins, because 2000 years ago 12 dudes spontaneously spoke in foreign languages. [For those pagans out there, don’t feel bad. Apparently it’s Pentecost Monday — the day when the holy spirit descended upon the apostles. Who…

May 04, 2016
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It's Pumpkin Day!

Dear pumpkins, I feel humbled on this day of days. May 4th is Travel Agent Day and as Trump says ‘we will celebrate bigly.’  Telling someone where to go in exchange for money is one of the oldest and most…

April 26, 2016
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He Ain’t Heavy, He’s A Passenger

Shedding those extra pounds can be such a challenge, dahrlings. With the cost of each extra ounce adding gabillions to the bottom line, lightening the load is Sola Scriptura for airlines. It’s a notion that escapes the fanatical Gabor Lukacs…