Travel and gaming may seem like separate worlds, but they share a common thread immersion, exploration, and the thrill of discovery. Just as games transport players into new environments, travel offers the chance to step into real-life worlds that echo the themes and atmospheres of favourite games. Whether you love epic adventures, high stakes excitement, or relaxed social play, your gaming preferences can inspire the perfect holiday destination. For fans of classic casino games and glamorous settings, destinations like Las Vegas and Monte Carlo are a natural fit. These cities […]

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Brent Huff is an award-winning actor, writer, and director best known for his recurring roles in Shameless, The Rookie, The Rookie: Feds, Pensacola: Wings of Gold, and Black Scorpion. His early career took off in the 1980s when he starred in the French cult classic The Perils of Gwendoline. Over the years, Brent has been recognized with several honors, including awards from the Stony Brook Film Festival, the International Family Film Festival, and the Studio City Film Festival. Q. I am a big fan of The Rookie. So, I want […]

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CHICAGO – (February, 2024) – Flyover, the immersive attraction that transports guests to the planet’s most epic places through exhilarating flying journeys, announced today that it will officially debut at Chicago’s Navy Pier on March 1. Located within Chicago’s landmark waterfront Navy Pier, the multi-sensory experience, which incorporates leading drone technologies along with impressive aerial shots and first person-narratives, will showcase the city from perspectives never seen before. From climbing skyscrapers 13,000 ft. high to diving straight down buildings, skimming sidewalks, swooping into iconic landmarks like the Chicago Theatre, to […]

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The lights and allure of Las Vegas has long held curiosity for me. It’s a dazzling playground for all. From mind-blowing entertainment, dancing fountains, world-class cuisine and 24-hour casinos – and all on one street! There’s no denying that Las Vegas is a relentless assault on the senses and earns its high-octane reputation as the Entertainment Capital of the World. But is there actually more to Sin City than sensory overload? I was determined to find out on my recent trip and here I offer some of my personal highlights […]

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It’s a courageous move for an airline to begin flying new transatlantic routes during a transitional time for the airline industry, but that’s exactly what PLAY has done. This Icelandic airline was founded in Reykjavik in 2019 by a team with significant experience in the aviation industry. They started flying to Reykjavik from the East Coast of the United States in 2022. I recently flew PLAY’s daily nonstop service to Keflavik, Reykjavik’s main international airport, from my home in New York City. They also have daily flights from Boston’s Logan […]

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Q. Traveling is a universal experience that everyone takes pleasure in, but being a gay traveler comes with its own set of complexity and challenges. How do you define LGBTQ travel and why LGBTQ travel matters in your opinion? I think the definition of LGBTQ travel is constantly evolving, and that’s a great thing. Twenty years ago, being a gay traveler meant I only felt comfortable going to certain spots, like San Francisco or Miami, where I knew I could find gay bars, social acceptance, and people like me. Nowadays, […]

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Hurtigruten Expeditions Launches Epic Pole-to-Pole Expedition Cruises — Hurtigruten Group – Jun 01, 2021 16:00 UTC Hurtigruten Expeditions, the world leader in exploration travel, has unveiled an epic 93-day Pole to pole expedition cruise – exploring Alaska, the Northwest Passage, Greenland, the Caribbean, the Panama Canal, South America, and Antarctica in one monumental voyage. August 8, 2022, marks the start of the epic 93-day adventure on board battery-hybrid powered MS Roald Amundsen. This is the first of two new pole-to-pole itineraries, with MS Fram setting sail for an epic 66-day […]

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On 19 August 2020, at 14:19, baby Aurora Wolteck was born in Dettingen Konstanz on the border between Germany and Switzerland, completely unaware of the Arctic adventure that had unfolded nine months earlier. But let us go back even further, to the day in 2009, when two young people, Nathalie and Benjamin, now 30 and 33 years old, were introduced to each other through a mutual friend while hiking near Lake Constance. It was friendship at first smile, and a few years later their friendship evolved into love. In December […]

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Our excitement, which had been building prior to our trip to Iceland, reached a crescendo after we landed. We immediately saw beautiful snow-covered mountains, contrasting in the harsh rain. Every mountain was white and the landscape was devoid of people. Over the next few weeks, these scenic destinations changed our definition of beauty and natural elegance. Here are the top 11 things you must know before visiting Iceland. 1) Plan your visit Iceland has so much to offer for the outdoor enthusiast. Every landscape seen while driving will be alluring […]

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Of my 13 trips to Iceland so far, my most memorable one was my first time there, in 2002, when I happened to meet my future wife. At a distant second was our trip in the summer of 2011, when we took a week-long road trip through the West Fjords region, the far northwestern peninsula that juts out into the cold North Atlantic Ocean like a dragon’s head on a Viking longboat. It’s not necessarily an inaccessible nor difficult drive to get there (though parts of the way through the highlands […]

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Iceland delivers a variety of outdoor experiences across all seasons – from glacier walks, to self drive exploration including waterfalls, snow covered mountains, little villages and picturesque views of the sea. Many tour operators are located in the country offering a wide diversity of trips. Walk on a glacier, visit an ice cave, go scuba diving in a remote part of the country, visit volcanoes, or hot springs. One tour operator even offers “storm” tours – this particular tour is only offered during bad weather! Or if you have the […]

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Nordic nation restricts tourists for one weekend in April and invites 100 visitors to join locals in caring for their 18-island archipelago in the North Atlantic New York, NY — March 2019 — The pristine Faroe Islands – a group of volcanic islands in the North Atlantic, halfway between Iceland and Norway – welcome approximately 100,000 visitors each year, attracted by the country’s dramatic scenery, including rugged cliffs, sea caves, spectacular waterfalls and an abundance of birdlife, not forgetting a population of just 50,000 Faroese people and their 80,000 sheep. […]

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It’s not everyday that I get to feel like I’m living in history, but that’s exactly how I felt looking at the rolling hills of Athens from the top of the Acropolis, images from 300 flashing in and out of my head (I know I know 300 is Sparta not Athens). I was on my way to Iceland from Singapore after attending a trade show on the island nation. There were no direct flights available; what’s more, there wasn’t even a simple connecting option that I could book. The only […]

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Yup, you read the headline right. I made a day trip to Bogota, Colombia from Los Angeles, USA. I’m probably not the first one to do it, but I bet not many people have done it before. So how’d it happen? Mostly through my opportunism: I managed to squeeze in a stop in Bogota while on my way to Santiago, Chile. It wasn’t really on my original plans but I had a choice of two flights – one with a 4-hour layover in Lima, Peru and one with a 16-hour […]

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Words that come to mind when referring to the island of Mo’orea include ethereal, mysterious, remote, undeveloped and exotic. I’ve long built up the mystique of this island in my mind based upon stories my mother related from a several month trip she took to the South Pacific in the 1960s. Mo’orea was by far her favorite island in the French Polynesia. While Mo’orea has certainly changed since those days, a visit to the island is like walking back in time to some extent – and compared to the relative […]

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