A safe passage through ‘orca alley’

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Like all good things that happen to us, it was an accident I started writing pilots for the Mediterranean. It all began when I was skippering a flotilla around the Saronic and eastern Peloponnese in G

Crossing the Atlantic via the Cape Verde islands is a detour well worth taking, says James Kenning

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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