Dark days light nights

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

After years of weighing up the pros and cons of owning a campervan, my wife and I finally bit the bullet last August and purchased a 10-plate T5 from a neighbour. Not knowing much about the practicali

With our son Ben nearing his second year at Sixth Form College, we were aware our summer holiday this year would need to accommodate his Duke of Edinburgh expeditions, numerous parties and music festi

The seasoned polar explorer Franklin lost two vessels and 129 men, himself included, in the late 1840s, searching for the route that would take 3,000nm off the sea route to the Orient. Even though glo

Sail Norway’s dramatic fjords high above the Arctic Circle and learn about the night sky on this small-ship cruise

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