ICE tips

To save time when going through airport security and to avoid having to leave behind bottles of sunscreen and conditioner, remember to limit anything liquid-y in your carry-on to 3.4 ounces (100 milliliters) or less.

Jan 13, 2025 • 5 min read

Jan 11, 2025 • 8 min read

Winter Storm Cora has continued to move east, resulting in hundreds of flight disruptions at major hubs.

Jan 9, 2025 • 4 min read

Just over a year ago, my family moved from South Carolina to Madrid . There are so many cultural differences between the two countries, but what has surprised us most is what our kids notice when we return to visit the US.

Several amber and yellow weather warnings are being forecast for the UK, starting tonight (Monday 30 December) and going well into Thursday 2 January, which is putting a literal dampener on New Year festivities.

Paris and Berlin are about to get a little closer.

When my husband and I traveled to Norway and the Arctic Circle last year, we decided to stay in an otherworldly ice hotel — the Sorrisniva Igloo Hotel at Sorrisniva Arctic Wilderness Lodge in Alta, Norway.

Dec 16, 2024 • 15 min read

Dec 16, 2024 • 10 min read

Twelve inches of fresh powder had just fallen at Eaglecrest Ski Area in Juneau, Alaska, when I arrived for my first day of skiing last February. Snow packed the slumping branches of towering pines and frosted the beards of draping moss. From the chairlift, skiers below me appeared from the thighs up, their lower halves plowing fresh tracks. Whoops of delight rang out from sources unseen.

Dec 14, 2024 • 7 min read

Onboard Obsession is a new series that explores the can't-miss highlights of the best-loved cruises—from the shore excursions to book to the spa treatments too relaxing to pass up.

The desert seems like an unlikely place to visit for some of the best holiday displays in the country, but the Las Vegas Strip is full of surprises.

Nov 15, 2024 • 9 min read

Nov 12, 2024 • 8 min read

For 60 years, Baltazar Ushca worked a rare but rigorous trade: ice merchant. Once or twice a week, he climbed snow-capped Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador’s highest peak, to hack ice from a glacier with a pickax, wrap the 60-pound blocks in hay and transport them on the backs of his donkeys. He would then sell them to villagers who did not have electricity and needed refrigeration to conserve their food.

Nov 4, 2024 • 8 min read

Nov 4, 2024 • 5 min read

Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 aimed to be the first to cross the snowy mass of Antarctica, passing through the South Pole on the way. But he never even got started on that epic journey—and embarked on another instead—when his ship to the White Continent, the Endurance, sank in the Weddell Sea before reaching its base on Antarctica. Shackleton then had to figure out how to get his crew safely home from where they were stranded on the ice. He succeeded against all odds, and became a legend in the process, but the shipwreck itself was never found, the aura of mystery and intrigue only growing greater with time.