Even for a veteran traveller like myself, there’s a frisson of excitement on the quayside in Buenos Aires as we hand over luggage and passports. Plastic smartcard in hand, I mount the gangway with ...

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To mark Cape Horn’s 400th anniversary this month, James Draven voyages there, meets the world’s most southerly lighthouse keeper, and keeps his breakfast down, just I don’t get seasick. Not under ...

It claims to be the only expedition cruise company to offer trips showcasing the headland - the northern edge of the notoriously choppy Drake Passage - which is inaccessible by land. Cape Horn is on ...

Early in the morning, shortly after five, the tension is mounting. Dawn is breaking, and the sea lies deep and dark as foam dances on the waves. Behind the window in the cabin, it is cosy. Barren ...