Staying on a classic houseboat while in Amsterdam is the very Dutch thing to do. Channelling my inner Amsterdammer, I sleep in a canal boat and then cycle in the rain. It's all part of making my visit to the Dutch capital as authentic, and unique, as possible. I've been to Amsterdam before and stayed at DoubleTree, which is a very nice chain hotel ...

The Happiest Place on Earth goes all out for Halloween, and then Christmas. Shortly after we're startled by the Headless Horseman galloping by, we enter The Haunted Mansion. Then we hurl ourselves through a mostly-dark galaxy, get in an elevator with dodgy wiring, perilously hang upside down and ride a railway with sketchy tracks. But, it's all goo...

The light isn't hitting the polished aluminum of the airplane just right. So, everyone who turned up at this Air Canada news conference a little early, myself included, is asked to put a shoulder into the wing and push the aircraft. When the 38-foot-long and 6,454-pound 1937 Lockheed L-10A plane reaches the middle of the Air Canada hangar at Vancou...

​The Japanese may have coined the term, but one of the best places to forest bathe is on the West Coast's Salt Spring Island. In the mood for a little forest bathing, my wife, Kerry, and I make a beeline for Mount Erskine Provincial Park. Truth be told, we really didn't even know what forest bathing was until five minutes earlier. That's when Janet...

Not a religious nor superstitious man, Ilija Pajovic nevertheless puts his hand on the Madonna rock behind the church's altar and makes a wish. Two months later, his wife is pregnant with the son they've longed for eight years. "I'm just saying, it seems like a miracle to me," said Pajovic. "You can see for yourself." So, my wife, Kerry, and I pile...

Having your fortune told by a white java sparrow is the thing to do in Taiwan's capital. Big Luck Master flits out of his cage toward me so I can lean in to whisper in his ear. I feel ridiculous communicating with a white java sparrow this way. But, if I'm to have my fortune told Taipei-style I have to make a feathered friend. We'd been told by Dav...