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Travel Trivia Quiz #12: Oh, Canada!

January 26, 2022January 22, 2025 Mark Stachiew

How much do you know Canada? Here’s a travel quiz that asks 10 questions about the Great White North. I’ve put in a few easy

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Travel Trivia Quiz #11: It’s back to school, so no excuses!

September 2, 2021January 22, 2025 Mark Stachiew

It’s been a while since our last travel trivia quiz. Here’s our latest challenge. Can you get them all right?

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Travel Trivia Quiz #10 – Testing your knowledge of Canada’s extremes

July 29, 2021 Mark Stachiew

Canada is a big place, extreme in every sense of the word. Our latest travel trivia quiz takes a look at the biggest and longest

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Test your knowledge with our Travel Trivia Quiz #9

July 22, 2021July 22, 2021 Mark Stachiew

It’s a big world out there, but do you know enough about it to answer our latest travel trivia quiz? We’ve got some real head-scratchers

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Travel Quiz #8: Identify the vintage travel poster

July 8, 2021July 8, 2021 Mark Stachiew

Destinations have always marketed themselves with idealized images. Today’s it’s in the form of perfect photographs, but decades ago, the images were colourful paintings that

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Travel Quiz #7 – Airport code or text abbreviation? Can you tell the difference?

June 24, 2021June 24, 2021 Mark Stachiew

Airlines rely on handy three-letter codes to identify the world’s airports while smartphone users are fond of three-letter abbreviations to use as shorthand in their

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Travel Trivia Quiz #6: Which airline tail is that?

June 17, 2021June 17, 2021 Mark Stachiew

How good are you at identifying airlines from the tails on their airplanes? If you’ve spent enough time around airports, chances are good that you

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Test your knowledge with our Travel Trivia Quiz #5!

June 10, 2021June 10, 2021 Mark Stachiew

We’re back again this week with another travel trivia quiz this week to test your geography knowledge and whatever other random tidbits are buried in

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Mark Stachiew has been exploring the world and writing about it for more than 30 years. His travel stories have appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines and online publications in Canada, the United States and beyond.

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    As seen in the light-polluted night skies over Mon As seen in the light-polluted night skies over Montreal in recent weeks: the Ring Nebula, the Needle Galaxy and the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules.
    Getting the cottage ready for summer 58 on the lak Getting the cottage ready for summer 58 on the lake.
    I’m not sure when the last day was that we saw t I’m not sure when the last day was that we saw the sun, but the crabapple blossoms don’t care.
    Globular clusters don’t get the love that galaxi Globular clusters don’t get the love that galaxies and nebulae do, but I think these stellar nurseries are cool. This one is Messier 3 in Canes  Venatici.
    I haven't been taking many deep-sky photos lately I haven't been taking many deep-sky photos lately because it's usually cloudy 9 days out of 10, but I tried reprocessing this photo of the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101) and I think it's much improved from my previous effort. What always amazes me about galaxy photos is that when you look closely, you can see other tiny galaxies photobombing the image. There are at least three others that I can see here!
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