This one is a no-brainer. Holiday trips are expensive enough as it is, so you may wonder why you would want to add additional costs? That's a good enough question, but there are very good reasons why you may want to rethink your logic. In most cases, traveling overseas goes without a…
It's September of 2023. Any thinking person will be aware of and supportive of UNESCO. As we watch the world fall / burn to pieces over these past couple of years, we need the organisation even more. Big oil is still beating its chest to the call of dozens of waiting billionaires.…
No, it's not the name of some new trendy Pale Ale. Still, we wish we could have been around when the first nations of Canada named this place. We would love to have seen the discourse and decision-making. We wonder who finally triumphed in the name game. Was it rock, paper,…
Re: animation. Road trip!
What’s the first thing they did with it? Took it to the Gobi Desert of course!
Here is another example of your editor fooling around and ruining his SEO (search engine optimization) statistics, but I can't help myself. I run this site for pleasure, throwing in a little history, a smidgen of humour, and hopefully some enjoyment for you. I make a little money, but I do it for…
Oh Canada. A place of some intrigue to many, there is always something new - and usually very old - when travelers peek under the hood. Sure, the names Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Quebec and Calgary always roll off people's lips. But, like anywhere else, out of the mists (real and imagined) are…
Hey presto! You’re now in Spain.
France never gets tiring, unless you wear yourself out by living life to the fullest there. Of course, Paris is at the top of the list for most people, as is Marseille or Nice or Bordeaux. Few countries have the variety or diversity that France has, in pretty much all aspects. And…
We have written a few posts about how travel can be a nightmare at times, especially when the travel companies don't seem to solve the issues (sometimes no matter how hard they try.) It could be a cascade of problems that they have no control over, or it could external influences - Covid anyone?…
Well, here we go again. You know us. We we love travel. We love history. And we love science. This post has all three all wrapped up in a rather exciting bundle...a roaring bundle, as it were. This is all about Niagara Falls. If you've been to that…
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Despite continual headwinds caused by COVID variants, the war in Ukraine and high fuel prices, traffic to travel websites remains on the upswing and points to strong business in the coming months across multiple sectors.
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According to Similarweb’s 2022 Travel Industry Insights Report, since January, traffic to top domains in the car rental, hotel…
The name Westminster Abbey should ring loud and clear to almost anyone who travels. It is one of the biggest attractions (and biggest buildings) in London and is instantly recognisable. If this is news to you, for background, Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic…
If you are reading this, then you are likely no technophobe. In fact, you may relish the opportunity to get your hands on new technology and services. We know we do here at Matouring. But, when you think about it how much is too much when it comes to taking things while you travel? Do…
Vancouver, Canada, is not a particularly old city. You might see some buildings from the late 1800's, but mostly it's 1970's family homes and high-rise apartments. We were driving down the street the other day in Vancouver, and passed this hotel / motel that we hadn't seen before, the 2400 Motel. We…
This post is aimed at those who don't take things too seriously. And, we mean that. But hopefully your sense of humour is intact. And, at the end of you reading this, if you find yourself in that part of the world, the activity is real and it is a place where…
If you're not a horror film fan (or a vegetarian) look away now.
Just when you think it's safe to crawl out from under the sofa, another theme restaurant appears out of nowhere. And this one is nothing like Chuck E. Cheese or Taco Bell.
Some enterprising folks have repurposed the Texas Chainsaw Massacre gas station…
In Canada, we move at our own pace.
It doesn’t take long to drive around this tiny French territory of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, but it’s taken what seems like forever to get here.
The new car ferry between a southern Newfoundland community and the last remnant of France’s once vast North American colony began operating in August,…
Politics is never straightforward, and when it comes to ancient laws and customs, it can be even more discombobulated. Not far from Salisbury, UK is a ruin called Old Sarum. Once grand and formidable, it is now a curious and somewhat sad example of where the rich stay rich and the poor . . well,…