The Falkland Islands bids farewell to the RSS James Clark Ross and a Marylebone gallery hosts a virtual exhibition of Antarctic photographs

In the fourth instalment of his diary, Dominic Hilton tries to understand Argentina’s ‘redhead curse’

The main rules of being an expat are 1) avoid controversy at all costs and 2) constantly belittle your home country

The polar cities of Arkhangelsk and Murmansk somehow attract a hardcore of visitors for whom winter isn’t a dirty word

From South Asia to the South Atlantic, in the time of Covid

In the third instalment of his diary, Dominic watches a man doing ballet on top of the British Ambassador’s Residence, and deals with his rude neighbour

Tom Chessyre on the glory of obscure railway museums

Heaven is the Outer-Hebrides – with the electric jolt of the sea trout on the line

The second instalment of Dominic Hilton’s Buenos Aires diary covers his first meal out in 10 months and how the Argentinian capital has been infiltrated by communists

Living without a TV had several notable side-effects: we’d read more, and sometimes, even have conversations