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North and Central America holidays

December 2020

  • Michelle Paver by the moulin, on the glacier - Mendenhall Glaciar

    Michelle Paver: Alaska's ice cave left me fizzing with ideas

  • USA, New York State, New York City, View of Lower Manhattan<br>EA6G58 USA, New York State, New York City, View of Lower Manhattan

    Katherine Rundell: how a snowy New York inspired my writing

September 2020

  • At first light … Mount Robson provincial park, Canada.

    A mountain of happy memories in British Columbia

    Mount Robson is off limits for now – unless you live in this part of Canada – but the mere memory of camping and hiking among its lakes and wildlife makes our writer dance inside

August 2020

  • Eusebio Leal  Spengler talks to children in Old Havana.

    Cubans bid farewell to Eusebio Leal Spengler, the saviour of Havana

  • Woman paddling a canoe laden with stores down a river in the Canadian wilderness

    This is an epic adventure, 11 women canoeing for 40 days in the wilds of Canada

May 2020

  •  The Northwest Angle is 80% water, the remainder a rectangle of land.

    The corner of Minnesota that’s there by mistake

    Northwest Angle is a wedge of the US marooned in a lake and reached via Canada – remote and raw, with pleasures hard-won
  • Matthew Henson, right, at the White House in 1954 with his wife, and President Dwight Eisenhower.

    Great explorers you’ve probably never heard of
    Matthew Henson: the pioneering African-American Arctic adventurer

    This multi-skilled explorer may well have been first to the North Pole – in 1909. What’s not in doubt is his resourcefulness and love of the Inuit
    • In Costa Rica, the absence of tourists means a greater need for food banks

    • My dad's little piece of Wales in his Canadian lakeside cottage

    • The imaginary American town that became a tourist attraction

April 2020

  • Bare necessity ... Ailsa Ross on a footwear-free walk near Banff, Alberta

    Barefoot in the park: the joy of walking over rocks and roots

    On moving to the Canadian Rockies, the writer barely left home for fear of bears, but overcame it by feeling the Earth beneath her feet

February 2020

  • Young brown bear (Ursus Arctos) fishing for spawning salmon at Freshwater Bay creek in Tongass National Forest.

    The bear necessities in Alaska

    Tongass National Park is one of the world’s great, unspoiled forests – and it’s home to more brown bears than anywhere else on earth

January 2020

  • Amtrak’s Southwest Chief at Wootton Ranch, Colorado, near the Raton Pass.

    Views you don’t get on the freeway … across America by train

  • One of only two fellow passengers enjoying a sunny afternoon on board the cargo ship.

    I didn't want to fly – so I took a cargo ship from Germany to Canada

November 2019

  • Bruce Springsteen playing at the opening of the Springsteen: His Hometown exhibition

    My Hometown: exploring Bruce Springsteen’s New Jersey roots

    Asbury Park may be more closely associated with the star but a new exhibition in Freehold – the town where the Boss grew up – tells an earlier tale, along with 250 years of American history

October 2019

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Meme tourism has turned the world into the seventh circle of selfie hell

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Getting into character … a guest at a Jane Austen weekend at Governor’s House.

    'It's an escape': the Americans who want to live like Jane Austen

September 2019

  • Highway 61, a photography book by Jessica Lange published by powerHouse Books New Orleans

    Highway 61 revisited: Jessica Lange explores the historic route – in pictures

    The actor and photographer Jessica Lange revisits US Highway 61

July 2019

  • The San Juan River in Nicaragua beneath the El Castillo fort

    Travelling alone however I damn like

  • High angle view of horses grazing on field against sky<br>USA, North Carolina, Corolla

    North Carolina's islands: the beauty of the Outer Banks

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