The annual National Historic Ships UK Photography Competition offers a window into our maritime past and how it touches the present day

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

10 MARCH

If there is one county to explore on a foodie theme it has to be Cornwall. Seafood tops the list, of course; with more than 400 miles of coastline – the most in any county in Britain – and major and m

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Having never set foot on a catamaran, when I arrived in Thailand for a 10-day sailing holiday, I had no inkling that this trip would rapidly unfold into one of the most spontaneous, varied, and exhila