Category: <span>Laughs</span>
Kid Policy
Having travelled with 2 dogs for 10 months and 10,000 miles, we’ve heard lots of interesting comments from hotel staff about pets. It’s true that there are risks with letting animals inside a hotel room: they might be noisy, they might be dirty or smelly, and they might break things. […]
Touristophobia
Breakfast time at our hotel in Trujillo, Peru. It seems Mai and I are the only two customers. The manager salutes us and says something to the staff in Spanish, deliberately speaking very fast so we won’t understand. Within 30 seconds a large flat-screen TV is turned on and the […]
Silence is Golden
Last year I took part in a spiritual workshop, along with a dozen other people. When the time came to break for lunch, our teacher proclaimed a rule: no talking for the next 20 minutes. I was looking forward to discussing the morning’s experience with the other folks in the […]
Oil and Water
“Did someone tell you about the water?” asked the teenager at the hotel front desk last night. I shook my head with a blank look on my face. He explained there would be no running water from this morning at 8am until tomorrow 7am. I shrugged at the news: it’s […]
The Sexy Gene
Among us brothers it was fairly obvious who got the sexy gene, and I can truthfully say that it wasn’t me. One summer Xavier, Marc and I shared a vacation apartment by the beach on the Atlantic coast. Although we had a great time filled with sports, naps and other […]
The Gazebo War
As I lay my yoga mat on the wooden floor of the gazebo for my martial arts conditioning practice, little do I know that a war is about to be declared. I boot my MacBook, place it on a stool facing the mat, and launch the video. On the screen, […]