Author: Lesley Keyter

Lesley Keyter is the face of travel in the fast growing city of Calgary. Every week since 1997 she has has featured live on the Morning News Global TV.

Itsy bitsy teeny weeny airplane seat

It’s the story of the incredibly shrinking airplane seat.  Which is ironic because as people seem to be getting bigger the seats are getting smaller.  Check out this handy comparison courtesy of Bill McGee of USA Today. (Note – Pitch = the distance in inches from a given point on one seat to the same point… Continue reading Itsy bitsy teeny weeny airplane seat

What would we do without the airlines?

We have had commercial flights for 100 years now  with the first paying passenger on a flight on 1st January 1914.  KLM is the oldest airline starting back in 1919.  In its first year of operations it carried 345 … in a whole year!  That’s as much as one plane carries today.  And don’t we know… Continue reading What would we do without the airlines?

It’s the double kiss

It’s what Italy is all about and maybe it is better than shaking hands.  Let’s face it – with most double kisses you are not really kissing the persons cheek – just rather touching their cheek with your cheek so probably way more hygienic than shaking hands.    And everybody does it …. Don’t you think… Continue reading It’s the double kiss

Are they getting bigger or smaller?

Ships that is!  A listing of the new ships coming on stream for 2016 is an interesting read.  In the past few years the trend was the bigger the better.  Back in 2010 the Oasis class of ship by Royal Caribbean boasted a capacity of up to 6296 passengers.   That’s just slightly less than… Continue reading Are they getting bigger or smaller?

Why you wouldn’t go to Honolulu

Well – here’s the reason.  If you booked a flight from Toronto to Honolulu with a plane change in Vancouver it might be cheaper than a regular Toronto Vancouver ticket so you actually wouldn’t want to go to Honolulu.  You would just get off the plane in Vancouver. Does this really work?  Apparently so –… Continue reading Why you wouldn’t go to Honolulu

Just Go.

Originally posted on HELEN'S TRIP::
This is pathetic. I have not posted anything here in THREE YEARS! What does that tell you about my life, hey? Not many adventures have happened since Greece in 2011 (pause for a quick reminiscent daydream). So Helen, why now? What’s going on? Let me tell you! Because honestly,…

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When you feel like a good whine…

Sorry – I actually meant wine!  I just returned from Bordeaux in France and there is nothing to whine about with this destination.  Just a wonderful week of wine tasting, food tasting, wine and food pairing and much more.  The area is just full of the cutest chateaux surrounded by vineyards. Over this time of… Continue reading When you feel like a good whine…

The ultimate whine…..

…….every two minutes, every waking hour, every day – for a month! The new runway at O’Hare has some people over-worked up. The Chicago Department of Information reports that in one month last year, one obsessive with no life lodged 11,155 complaints about O’Hare Airport noise. Assuming that he or she was awake and at… Continue reading The ultimate whine…..

Charge for checked bags backfires on airlines and passengers

Well I have had some fun with this in the past on this blog – people trying to take oversized bags as carry on which is a great inconvenience to fellow passengers.  This weekend stories in the media abound about the chaos at airports caused by passengers trying to take as much as possible as… Continue reading Charge for checked bags backfires on airlines and passengers