In conversation, Harald is a modest, mild-mannered man and to hear him outlining his 2022 cruise is the perfect expression of that. “It was mid-May that I left Medemblik for Den Oever and then to Texe

Simon Ellis completes the final leg of his three-month sabbatical cruise along the South Coast of England

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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

30-minute birder Amanda Tuke sees the benefits of being distracted by birds at home, and on the coast

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