Tag Archives: Travel

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)

GETTING THERE Not brimming with excitement facing a 15 ½ hour flight from Toronto to Hong Kong with a two-hour layover waiting for a 3 ½ hour flight to Singapore. The outboard flight and connecting flights to Singapore on Cathay Pacific one of the three best airlines in world as awarded in by Skytrax inContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”

RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary: Three Legends: Bateman, Bristol and a Land Rover “Grizzly Torque”

The documentary is both an adventure and biography of legendary Canadian wildlife artist Robert Bateman and Bristol Foster photographer, cinematographer and environmental activist and of course their Land Rover “Grizzly Torque” (GT) that between May 1957 and November 1958 transported them on a 50,000-mile adventure travelling through 19 countries including Ghana, Congo, Uganda, Keyna, India,Continue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary: Three Legends: Bateman, Bristol and a Land Rover “Grizzly Torque””

RKS 2025 Film: “Under the Volcano”: Metaphorical Streams of Lava!

Roma (Roman Lutskyi), his wife Nastia (Anastasiia Karpenko) and Roma’s children the phone obsessed Sofia (Sofia Berezovska) and the cartoon loving Fedir (Fedir Pugachov) are Ukrainians spending a vacation on one of the Canary Islands, Tenerife. Fun and good times and inevitably the departure back to Kiev. But the fun and games abruptly end withContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Under the Volcano”: Metaphorical Streams of Lava!”

RKS 2025 Canadian Wine: Cooper’s Hawk Talon Red

I have been a fan of wines from the Lake Erie North Shore (LENS) appellation in Ontario for quite some time. I go back so far I remember the first wine from Cooper’s Hawk I reviewed was a Chardonnay and these guys were so new it wasn’t even VQA. Then fame crept up on LENSContinue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Wine: Cooper’s Hawk Talon Red”

RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure:  What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Surgical Resort?

Your admission into the Hernia Club (Inguinal Division) commences from the day you emerged from the shower and noticed a bulge just above the waist. Membership ends upon your death. There is no initiation fee, annual charge or minimum bar and restaurant tab required. No need to worry about global inclusion and diversity. The preponderanceContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure:  What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Surgical Resort?”

The Global Long-Legged Society Commissions Study on Cruelty and Discrimination by Airlines Directed Towards Long-Legged Passengers

Winnipeg, Manitoba: 5June2025 The Global Long-Legged Society headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba announced today it has commissioned a study to investigate if commercial airlines are discriminating against long-legged passengers in the cabin configurations of their aircraft, particularly seating. Melanie Mintwiky, President and Chief Happiness Officer of the GLLS stated at a press conference, “Commercial airlines haveContinue reading “The Global Long-Legged Society Commissions Study on Cruelty and Discrimination by Airlines Directed Towards Long-Legged Passengers”

RKS 2025 Hotel Review: Eurostars Monte Tauro, Taormina, Sicily

The Eurostars Monte Tauro is a beacon of excellence for brutalist architecture strongly and creatively favouring concrete matching the rocky cliff it is carved into. A socialist twist to the Yugo brutalist architecture; Your balcony offers no privacy. You may be forced to converse with your fellow proletarians! Unroll your patio awning to avoid birdContinue reading “RKS 2025 Hotel Review: Eurostars Monte Tauro, Taormina, Sicily”

RKS Wine Tourism: A State of Mind Trumps Cold “Scientific” Logic

In Southern Sicily on 13May2025 we visited the Villa Romana Del Casale, home of some of the most superb Roman mosaics in the world recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The villa was constructed by a prominent Roman aristocrat between the third and fourth centuries. This large countryside villa represented the height of luxury.Continue reading “RKS Wine Tourism: A State of Mind Trumps Cold “Scientific” Logic”

RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Lighthall Cabernet Franc from “The County”

Two or so hours by car from Toronto and you arrive in Prince Edward County affectionately known as “The County”. Bucolic for the most part with cottages for the rich and famous and a few upscale restaurants to fed them. Summer home for business tycoons, judges and lawyers akin to The Hamptons for Torontonians. AsContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Lighthall Cabernet Franc from “The County””

RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Hare Cabernet Merlot from Niagara Ontario: This Hare Got Lost on the Racetrack and Was Beaten by the Snail

For my ex-Canada readers, the Niagara wine region is a couple of hours drive from Toronto God and traffic willing. Ok I admit the automobile trip from Toronto is shall we say diplomatically, less than inspiring but becomes much more interesting once you clear The Burlington Skyway Bridge and fumes of Hamilton and hit theContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Hare Cabernet Merlot from Niagara Ontario: This Hare Got Lost on the Racetrack and Was Beaten by the Snail”