April 2013

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In Barcelona, Spain, Gray Line’s GourmetBus (Balmes, 5; phone 902 024 443) offers travelers a 3-course meal by a Michelin-starred chef and a 3-hour tour that passes popular sites, including Gaudí’s Casa Batlló, Gaudí’s La Pedrera, the Sagrada Familia cathedral, the Torre Agbar, the Arc de Triomf and Port Olimpic.

Outdoor adventurer Bear Grylls and Worldwide Experience have created the Bear Grylls Survival Academy (877/742-2925), offering survival-skills courses led by crew members of the “Man vs Wild” and “Born Survivor” TV shows featured on the Discovery Channel.

Auto Museum Moncopulli (phone 64 210744, [website in Spanish]), 80 miles north of Puerto Montt in southern Chile, boasts 100 vintage cars, 26 of them Studebakers dating from the ’30s to ’60s. Among other makes are a Ford Model T and a 1965 Ford Thunderbird.

Located at km 25, Ruta International 215, in Puyehue, Osorno province, the museum is open 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Dec. 15-March 15 and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. March 16-Dec. 14 (closed Jan. 1 & Dec. 25). $4 adult or $1 child.

Talking statues, shrinking rooms, underground labyrinths, a griffin, a glass pyramid: these are a few of the weird wonders at the Forbidden Corner (Tupgill Park Estate, Middleham, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 4TJ, U.K.; phone +44 [0] 01969 640638), one of Britain’s oddest attractions. Initially one man’s private pleasure garden, the park was
opened to the public in 1994.

All tickets for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Feb. 7-23, 2014, are being sold online through CoSport; only Visa cards are accepted for payment.

A 3½-hour ride from Seoul, South Korea, via bullet train ($36 each way), the International Garden Exposition in Suncheon Bay runs until Oct. 20, 2013. It will include indoor gardens, urban gardens, herb gardens, forest paths and exhibits on ecology and wetland management.

Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays and 9-7 weekends. Tickets cost KRW15,000 (near $14) and can be purchased in advance (phone +82 61 749 2851 3 or online). The expo site is a 10-minute bus ride from the rail station.

“David Bowie is…,” the first international retrospective of the more than 50-year career of musician, actor, artist and record producer David Bowie, will be on exhibit at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (Cromwell Rd., London, SW7 2RL, U.K.; phone +44 [0] 20 7907 7073), March 23-July 28, 2013.

In 2013, Norway is celebrating the 150th anniversary of its most famous artist, Edvard Munch, with painting and photography exhibitions, commissioned works of music, tours of sites where Munch lived and more.

A short guided tour of the first house Munch bought, in Åsgårdstrand on the Oslo fjord, can be taken June 1-Aug. 31 for NOK50 (near $9).

The performance “Of Lifeblood” (NOK480, or $84), combining tableaux, original music and dance, will happen in and around Munch’s Hvitsen home, June 2-23.