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

It’s easy to get downhearted during these long weeks in the dead of winter, but all sorts of little treats can pop up to help us through. A wet day only six hours long doesn’t have a lot to offer to t

Daniel Pembrey picks out his top travel books of 2025

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Becoming an Arctic explorer was nothing like I imagined. I don’t know about you, but as a child I always assumed that anyone that ventured this far north would need to be wrapped in padded layers of f

Join an expedition ship for an awe-inspiring trip to untouched Antarctica and encounter penguins, seals, whales – and icebergs