It’s a muggy day in Athens. After a transfer bus takes us from the capital to Piraeus Port, we get off in one sweaty heap. But the weight of the merciless climate lifts when a magnificent vessel flood

CRUISING STORIES

I never sailed the Amazon and I never reached Brazil Oh, I’d love to roll to Rio, some day before I’m old! (Songs of Rudyard Kipling) We’d been to Rio de Janeiro once before and many years earlier, by

Exciting ways to get away from it all

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

THE TINY ISLAND OF NIUE CAPTURES MIRANDA BAKER’S HEART AFTER AN ADVENTUROUS SOUTH PACIFIC PASSAGE VIA THE MID-OCEAN REFUGE OF MINERVA REEF