New Brunswick does winter well with dark skies, cozy lodges and icy adventures

New Brunswick does winter well with dark skies, cozy lodges and icy adventures

Stéphane Picard, owner of astrotourism company Cliff Valley Astronomy, lives in a suburb called Quispamsis, in a place called New Brunswick, which (just in case you didn’t know) is a Canadian province. And he thinks it’s high time the rest of the world take note of his scarcely populated home, directly north of Maine. Horse-pulled sleigh … Read more

Sorry, not sorry! Canada goes luxury with new lodges and artful adventures

Sorry, not sorry! Canada goes luxury with new lodges and artful adventures

True luxury in travel is tricky to pin down today. “It’s not just one thing anymore,” said Abercrombie & Kent’s Kathrin Petty. “Some people want to be pampered — but it’s also deep diving into an adventure other people would not necessarily have.”  But why choose? In Canada, you can have it all — from … Read more

Get your wedding kicks in retro motels and vintage lodges

Get your wedding kicks in retro motels and vintage lodges

Suzannah Powell already knew that the Drifter Hotel was a great place to host a party. The New Orleans-based independent musician, working under the stage name Boyfriend (her latest single “El Niño” features rap star Lil Wayne), she had performed a number of gigs at the renovated motor lodge built in 1956. So when she … Read more

Watch the terrifying moment a 220-pound shark lodges teeth into snorkeler 

Watch the terrifying moment a 220-pound shark lodges teeth into snorkeler 

There was some nurse-on-nurse violence. Footage captured the Jaws-dropping moment when a giant shark took a bite out of a diver’s back, leaving her with a gruesome 6-inch-wide wound. “We decided to do a free dive trip to shark bay and snorkel inside a group of sharks,” marine photographer and freediver Ibrahim Shafeeg, 37, who … Read more