Well, its another night in Cannes thanks to the Eurorail strike and I do mean THANKS! I have done and seen all I had planned and each time I do something else, I learn of something I hadn't planned on. Today I walked the promenade, toured the old city aboard the petite train (best $10 tour ever) and enjoyed a traditional French dinner at a restaurant named (translation) "Wheelbarrow of our grandmother". The menu was set, which saved me the trouble of translati...

So I walk into the train station to buy my ticket to France and I am informed that France rail is on strike...so one more night and a 5 am bus ride to Nice, France it is! With no hotel and all my worldly possessions on my back, I decided to just walk and walk and walk...and walk. Genoa is a pretty big city. I finally found a nice tiny hotel in a beautiful old building, took a nap and went for dinner...yes, uneventful boring day. I did see most of the city and...

Another stock photo...real photos to follow soon. It's the end of a very long first day outside of North America. I left the Calgary airport at 2 pm on Wednesday, October 5 and it is now... I am not really sure. It was a long day but I am only in Genoa for the one night so I wanted to make the most of it and I did my best. I have always had a vision of what an Italian city on the sea would be...and Genoa did not disappoint. To start, I can't imagine a better v...

Sitting on the plane at the Glasgow airport waiting to head on to London and a few things have occurred to me; 1) there are a ridiculous number of beautiful women on this plane...nice, the beautiful oil exec sitting next to me saw me type this... If I can come home with another $25,000 from someone I met on a plane, maybe the board will pay for me to travel more. 2) is smoking on airplanes a bigger problem than I realize? They announce no smoking rules every f...