Canadian internationals Desiree Scott & Diana Matheson travel to France in preparation for their matchup against fifth-ranked France on April 9. Gunny Jónsdóttir returns to Europe to guide Iceland for UEFA Women's World Cup Qualifiers. Iceland takes on Slovenia on April 6 and plays April […]
Category: Travel
Here are the five things I learned installing a Smart Mirror
I recently received a review unit of the Embrace Smart Mirror. It’s essentially a 24-inch Android tablet mounted behind a roughly 40-inch mirror. It works well when 3rd party software is installed. Here’s what I learned. It’s impossible to get a good photo of the […]
Turner Middle School teachers win travel grants to Italy, Canada
BERTHOUD — Two Turner Middle School teachers received travel grants — one to Italy and one to Canadian provinces — to enrich the lessons they offer their students. The Thompson Education Foundation recently awarded $3,500 each to Justin Muir, a seventh grade social studies teacher, […]
Women & Wine – Cheers To A Good Cause
Travel with us through the most famous appellations from France. Taste Grand Cru Champagne before sampling two stunning and food-friendly wines from the Loire Valley and Provence. Five elegant reds such as prestigious Chateauneuf-du-Pape and Margaux will follow the white wine selections and … social experiment […]
France strikes cause travel chaos for rail and airline passengers
Travellers heading to, from and through France face travel chaos from Monday evening as strikes disrupt rail and air links. Railway workers are staging a series of two-day stoppages in protest against planned labour reforms by the national rail enterprise, SNCF. The strikes, from 3 […]
Atlassian’s two-year cloud journey
A couple of years ago, Dropbox shocked a lot of people when it decided to mostly drop the public cloud, and built its own datacenters. More recently, Atlassian did the opposite, closing most of its datacenters and moving to the cloud. Companies make these choices […]
You can now take your Netflix, Amazon, and other services anywhere in Europe
If you’re a seasoned traveller you’ll know that video streaming licensing rights have always been locked to the country you’re in, not the country you come from: available Netflix titles will vary based on whether you’re in the US or France, for example, while other […]
French railways warn of major disruption ahead of anti-Macron strike
Flight crews and ground staff for Air France also announced a further two-day strike for April 10th and 11th. In an update on Sunday, the SNCF said travel would be "very disrupted" on Tuesday, with one in eight high-speed TGV trains operating, around one in […]
Marawi on the French Riviera
The scenery one sees in the meme is not Marawi's but that of Nice, France, that elite retreat on the shores of the Baie des Anges on the French Riviera. … of millions of Filipinos who cannot afford to bask under the sun in Nice, […]
Chinese space lab set to crash to Earth within hours
Debris from the lab could land anywhere between the latitudes of 43 degrees north and 43 degrees south — from America's Midwest to New Zealand, the ESA has said. "The high speeds of returning satellites mean they can travel thousands of kilometres during that time […]