Waterworld

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

Set against an archipelago of forested isles and the waves of the Baltic Sea, the Finnish capital lives in harmony with nature — locals take artistic inspiration from their wild surrounds and warm up in cedar-lined saunas

National parks were established to enable everybody to have access to some of the UK’s most impressive landscapes. They provide thousands of kilometres of right-of-way routes, including over 800 miles

There is something for everyone at our wonderful wetland sanctuaries

Piteälven, one of Sweden’s great rivers, has carved out 400km of sweeping landscape through Swedish Lapland by sheer brute force. In following these watercourses, Mark Waring learns lessons in fully appreciating this remote and seldom-visited wild land from the Norwegian border high in the Scandinavian mountains to the Baltic Sea

The 14-island archipelago of Islas Secas, once deemed uninhabitable for humans, is now a breathtaking, private island hideaway, says Mark Hedges