Size always matters

Winters are long and summers are short in the north of the Arctic Circle. Keith Allan joins Swan Hellenic’s Diana on a 10-day Norwegian odyssey, taking in ‘cod’s own country’

Think of the Cote d’Azur and you think of refined opulence; F Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Brigitte Bardot, Cannes Film Festival; glitz, glamour. The reality if you actually drive there is v

Climate change is altering the way we live and think and that includes the way we spend our leisure time. A few years back, most of us thought nothing of jumping on a jumbo jet and heading to sun-soak

Steam rises in plumes, roaring from fissures in rocks, while around me, pools of mud bubble. The hillsides are rusted with iron ore, and dark storm clouds echo the colours of the dark-coloured earth.

This week’s dream: the dazzling coral gardens of ...

A couple of years back I was writing a guide entitled the A-Z of multihulls and I felt I had done a pretty decent job of sorting through the various different flavours of cruising multihulls and makin