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

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’

Take a winter road trip from Iceland’s second city, Akureyri, through a northern peninsula framed by fjords and punctuated by isolated herring-fishing villages.

Our selection of the best, fastest, toughest, quirkiest and most enjoyable UK races this month

2026 is shaping up to be an amazing running year! We’ve done our research and come up with the very best we can, from fun runs, to team relays, to city routes and coastal trails. We’ve also included s

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