The best places to visit

Who says safaris are only for Africa? At the other end of the spectrum — and pole — on an Arctic safari, you can catch glimpses of seals, walruses, and, if you’re fortunate, polar bears. By Barnaby Davies No person spoke. At 80 degrees North, the 25-yr-outdated hull creaked in the ice. Camera shutters whirred although expedition staff and passengers stared spellbound. A gargantuan male polar bear stood, flat-footed, only a couple of feet beneath us on the Norwegian pack ice. Had I leaned just a little even more above the ship’s rail, we could have shaken hands. Or rather, I could have lost my video camera and the arm holding it. It was mid-August. I was aboard the Professor Molchanov on a ten-day trek all around Spitsbergen, Norway. The ex-analysis vessel, crewed by Russians, was my new dwelling away from property. Constructed for the Hydrometeorology Institute in Murmansk, Russia, it measures a shade in excess of 233 feet extended. Ice-strengthened, she was created for Arctic nor...

Nonetheless recovering from that bender identified as Katrina, a road trip to the Major Effortless reveals how New Orleans isn’t letting a small hangover prevent it from enjoying existence, just like it always has. By Ted Hesson We made the decision to take a street trip for quite a few reasons: moving, freelance work, sightseeing, hell-raising, escapism, rock and roll — the normal motives. Because it was freezing cold in New York, the three of us thought it would be smarter to move southerly just before hanging a right in the direction of the West Coast. Although my two friends ventured on to California, even though, my ultimate end on the journey would in fact be New Orleans, a city that I had usually needed to pay a visit to. I anticipated to obtain, among other issues: heaps of spicy seafood, Bayou-tinged blues, unparalleled architecture, non-quit debauchery and the remnants of one of the worst all-natural disasters in the background of the United States. For much be...