The NY Times takes an epic train journey from New York to San Francisco. It takes about four days on the train, but with stops in Chicago, Denver and Nevada the trip lasted a week. There’s also a family trip to Marrakesh and the villages of India.

The Australian goes in search of polar bears in Manitoba, staying in a movable tundra lodge. They try out the Goodwill Guides in Japan and they’re in search of spices in Singapore.

Simon Barnes also goes looking for bears in Canada in The Times. There’s also ranch life in Argentina and camping in Paris.

In The Guardian, Tim Dowling checks in to the worst hotel in Britain (according to Trip Advisor) and disappointingly doesn’t find it to be that bad. Further afield there’s Hugh Thomson in the Sierra Madre, Kevin Rushby on a musical tour of Mali and a look at tourism in the Albanian Alps.

The FT visits Banda Aceh which has been devastated by war and 2004′s tsunami, but appears to be making comeback. Andrew Jefford takes his young family to Singapore and Elizabeth Rigby goes birdwatching in Kenya.

In The Guardian Kevin Gould sails a dhow off the Kenyan coast. There’s skiing in Sweden and Danny’s never ending adventure goes on and on….

In The Times, Tom Chesshyre paints an overly grim picture of Havana. Billy Connolly plugs his book and upcoming tv series with a piece on Canada and AmyLame goes to buy a ring for her wedding, in Antwerp which is apparently a good place for doing such things.

The Austalian goes to Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, the newly opened California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Germany’s Eltz Castle and the Hebridean island of Mull.

In yet more Darwin anniversary writing, The Independent retrace Darwin’s voyage on the Beagle. The travel press are happy to tell us how tourists are threatening the Galapagos Islands, yet in this year of Darwin’s anniversary, promote them every week. The Independent also has the east coast of Barbados and, in light of BA’s new direct flight, St. Kitts.