Travel Briefs

Due to open in February 2016, St. Helena Airport will connect the remote Atlantic island of St. Helena, 1,200 miles west of Africa’s southern coast, to the rest of the world by air for the first time. 

Most famous as the final home of Napoleon Bonaparte, the British Overseas Territory of St. Helena is home to more than 4,000 people. It currently is accessible to visitors only via the RMS St. Helena, which makes the 5-day journey from Cape Town once every three weeks. The ship will be retired in April 2016. 

Two airlines have proposed routes to St. Helena. Comair Limited, a...

Play it Forward Adventures specializes in tours which include volunteer work.

Example — a 15-day trip to Chile includes five days’ trekking through Cerro Castillo National Park and centers on teaching English to schoolchildren in Patagonian villages. The land cost of $3,195 includes in-country flights and transportation, lodging, meals, all materials for the volunteer project, outdoor activities and park fees.

Contact Play it Forward Adventures (Box 14126, St. Paul, MN 55114; 651/493-8817, www.pifadventures.com).

The city of Rouen — where Joan of Arc’s trial and execution took place almost 600 years ago — was scheduled to open a museum in her honor on March 21.

The Historial Jeanne d’Arc (7 rue Saint-Romain, 76 000 Rouen, France; phone +33 02 35 52 48 00, www.historial-jeannedarc.fr [in French]) fills 10 exhibition spaces on five levels of the city’s Palais Archiépiscopal. It features multimedia experiences on the events of 1431 and the political debates that followed years later plus displays of objects and works that Joan of Arc has inspired.

Closed Mondays. Admission costs €9.50 (...