‘Should go far’ was the footnote to an end-of-term school report supposedly handed to my parents in 1967. It’s doubtful, however, that staging marathon trips in someone else’s car was what the teacher

CRUISING STORIES

My last email ended with this: We are both very much looking forward to our Tasman Sea crossing to Nelson, New Zealand. The sea with its infinite cleansing powers should wash away all that earth life

We have just had a relaxing autumn break in Wiltshire and Somerset. Travelling from home in the Midlands on a Sunday we had a steady journey to Devizes Camping and Caravanning Club site. We had pre-bo

Celebrating 100 years of the BBC Shipping Forecast, Jane Russell takes us on a series of coastal cruises through the forecast sea areas, exploring some of the special places on offer in each of them

Becoming an Arctic explorer was nothing like I imagined. I don’t know about you, but as a child I always assumed that anyone that ventured this far north would need to be wrapped in padded layers of f