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In our newest roundup of journey information: nice cities for world-class cocktails, Japanese road meals and Michelin-starred high-quality eating, plus father-son and grandmother-granddaughter aviation groups taking to the skies.

And with Halloween on the horizon, discover out why “tombstone vacationers” discover cemeteries so fascinating.

Bars, road meals and high-quality eating

The place do you go to seek out the world’s greatest bar? For the previous two years in a row, it’s been Barcelona. Intimate cocktail joint Sips, a 33-seat venue that opened through the Covid pandemic, scooped the celebrated 2023 award this month, after speakeasy Paradiso took final yr’s crown.

And for Asian road meals, one Japanese metropolis has extra open-air meals stalls than the remainder of the nation mixed. Right here’s how Fukuoka got here to rule Japan’s yatai (meals cart) scene.

Lastly, Michelin-starred eating has arrived in Georgia’s capital metropolis, with 5 Atlanta eating places being awarded one Michelin star on October 24. The distinguished French journey information praised the town’s “dynamic culinary panorama” and “numerous choices.”

A grandmother and granddaughter flight attendant duo not too long ago hit the skies on a Southwest Airways flight over California. Hannah Heck, 24, was impressed by her jetsetting grandma to start an aviation profession. So when the 2 ended up working for a similar airline, Cynthia Heck, 72, labored behind the scenes to ensure she was on Hannah’s first flight.

Ruben Flowers and his son Ruben share greater than only a identify: Little Ruben grew up desirous to be identical to his pilot dad, and a 1994 photograph exhibits the toddler son gazing up with admiration within the airplane flight deck as his uniformed father ready to fly a aircraft. Virtually 30 years later, the pair recreated the photograph — however this time younger Ruben, 30, is in uniform too, about to observe in his father’s footsteps and start flying as a First Officer, additionally for Southwest Airways.

Technological improvements are making journey less complicated and less complicated. Take the bags monitoring machine, the must-have merchandise for the savvy traveler. When athlete Grey Barnett’s $12,000 bike went lacking between France and South Carolina, he and his dad tracked it to Brussels Airport — the place a useful airport employees member was in a position to save the day.

Stay translation can also be always enhancing. And in Japan, at all times a tech front-runner, Tokyo metro has launched a futuristic display screen that may immediately translate conversations into 12 languages. Watch the way it works right here.

Lastly, Google Flights has a brand new characteristic to assist vacationers lower your expenses and divulges probably the most searched winter vacation spots. And when the time comes to show your trip clips into mini masterpieces, our companions at CNN Underscored, a product opinions and proposals information owned by CNN, have this roundup of the very best video enhancing apps for cell in 2023.

This emperor penguin chick is the primary to hatch at SeaWorld San Diego in over 10 years. Workers say she’s now thriving on a weight-reduction plan of fish and “fish milkshakes.”

This haunting image of a horseshoe crab gained Wildlife Photographer of the 12 months 2023.

However how does it evaluate to the animal antics within the Comedy Wildlife Picture Awards?

This couple stop their jobs and offered every thing to drive all over the world with their two kids. 

Their mission is to guard the atmosphere.

On India’s Coromandel Coast, there’s a forgotten Danish outpost. 

Tranquebar was the European nation’s foothold in India from 1620 to 1845.

This island was as soon as a barren moonscape lorded over by rats. 

Now the newly restored Redonda is a Caribbean wildlife haven.