Land of snow and ice

The seasoned polar explorer Franklin lost two vessels and 129 men, himself included, in the late 1840s, searching for the route that would take 3,000nm off the sea route to the Orient. Even though glo

This week’s dream: tackling Moby-Dick at ...

Visiting Lapland may be on many children’s wish lists, but I’ve never seen a more excited bunch of adults than when the northern lights appeared on our trip to Sweden. There is no guarantee, so we wer

With the promise of being the ‘ultimate long range explorer’ we’ve been hankering to test the Arksen 85 for some time. Did it live up to the boatbuilder’s robust adventure credentials? Hugo Andreae finds out

Katy Stickland introduces her non-sailing family to life afloat on a charter holiday in Greece’s spectacular Ionian Sea

Even after 20 years in the job I ...