The Unique Hotel in São Paulo is a great place to unwind at the end of a long Brazilian business day.

Time out from a busy day for an excellent parillada at Fogo do Chão – said by many Paulistas to serve the best beef in town.

I’m here on business in São Paulo for a few days. Though it is spring the weather is cold,damp and windy – due to a stalled Antarctic front. São Paulo is one of the boomtowns of the world – and a great, if challenging place to visit. ArcticTropic will have updates all this week.

A brisk walk around Stanley Park in Vancouver this morning.

On this beautiful spring day ( close to 80 degrees) I had some time to walk around Mexico City before a late afternoon meeting with The Mexico Tourism Promotion Office.

Then I had an excellent lunch at Casa Merlos. True Poblano delicacies. I had read about it in the New York Times a few weeks ago. A meal worth photographing!

This is not Havana – I shot this 1954 Bel Air on a nice back street in Colonia Gen.Anaya ,Mexico City, around lunch time today. I was meeting nearby with AMTAVE – the Adventure Travel Ecotourism Association of Mexico.

I’m off to Mexico City today, having landed about 9 AM local time after a 3 hour flight from Miami – thanks to the early USA Daylight time change. Here for the week for ArcticTropic business matters. Below – a shot of Popocatepetl Volcano taken out the plane window.

Rush hour on a cold winter’s day in Hanoi. Bicycles,cyclos and motorbikes rushing in every direction. Right now ArcticTropic has three listings for Vietnam – with many more to come.

In Petropavlovsk,Kamchatka a 50 meter high statue of Lenin keeps watch on the now booming port – off limits to outsiders in Communist times. There will be plenty more still shots and videos of Kamchatka and other Russian adventure destinations. On ArcticTropic there are two ways of reaching Russian listings – from both the European and Asian map entry points.