PHOTOGRAPHS BY FLORIAN LEDOUX; SELAR Aged 26, Sophie ...

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’

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.

The Innuit have a specific word – iktsuarpok – to describe the anguish of waiting. By day three of waiting for my flight to Greenland, I am feeling a strong sense of iktsuarpok. The majority of visito

If you’re driving north, be careful of the reindeer,” said Father Christmas as I sat beside him at Santa Claus’s Main Post Office in Rovaniemi. “We have 230,000 reindeer here in Finland,” he said, “bu