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

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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

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Jersey-based Graham Root joins the Our Boats crew with his first ever motorboat…

When we started motorhoming in 1991 we never went to the same place twice, at least unless by mistake, as we managed to do once in Germany! My late parents rarely showed any interest in anywhere but F