Is that a snow globe in your pocket?

by ANNAROSA SABBADINI

The oddest items will set off alarms at airport security. If you want to breeze through the checkpoint ...

Action off the slopes

by SOPHIE LORENZO

Not interested in clipping into a pair or skis or a snowboard? Not a problem. Some resorts are ...

Are the new airport scanners a medical menace?

by DR MICHAEL K. MCLENNAN

We asked imaging specialist and regular Parkhurst Exchange contributor, Dr Michael K. McLennan

Boston blue bloods and Maya kings

by SOPHIE LORENZO

If you're headed to Beantown, you'll want to visit the Museum of Fine Arts where a long-awaited US$345-million ...

Child-free flights?

by SOPHIE LORENZO

Very few travellers have escaped the torture that is a long-haul flight with a screaming infant. You may ...

The US's best and worst airports

by SOPHIE LORENZO

It's that time of year when travellers take stock of the ground they've covered. And if they're frequent ...

Airlines' fave snack grounded

by ANNAROSA SABBADINI

It looks like the aviation industry's longstanding love affair with those little nut packets is about to end. ...

Dalí in Florida? How surreal

by GILLIAN WOODFORD

An important collection of works by Salvador Dalí will have a new home on January 11, 2011 when ...

Life after the Olympics

by ANNAROSA SABBADINI

Whistler-Blackcomb, which hosted many events for the 2010 Vancouver Games, says it won't rest on its Olympic laurels ...

Ride into the sunset with Zorro

by GILLIAN WOODFORD

“All I need is for Antonio Banderas to show up on a black horse,” remarks a woman to ...

Ring rivalry

by GILLIAN WOODFORD

Ring Nuts — that's the name given to groupies who follow productions of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle, or ...

Slopeside freebies for newbies

If you've always wanted to learn to ski or snowboard but never quite got around to it, the ...

This airplane food sounds awful

by GILLIAN WOODFORD

In a study surely destined to receive an Ig Nobel Prize for improbable research, a group of British ...

Toronto's Tremblant crush

by GILLIAN WOODFORD

Quebec's Mont Tremblant used to spend most of its time courting American ski lovers. Then the Great Recession ...