Kayaking

Six days of expedition kayaking beneath thousand-metre granite faces rising straight from the Arctic sea.

The Gorges de l'Ardèche descent — 32 km under the Pont d'Arc natural arch over two days.

Five days down the Krutynia — a hundred kilometres of clear shallow river linking lake after lake.

Whitewater kayaking down the emerald Soča from Bovec — a world-class, World Cup river.

Five days on the Czarna Hańcza, finishing through the hand-cranked lock gates of an 1820s canal.

The archetypal Adriatic island seascape, minus the crowds on the main island.

Five days paddling mangrove rivers and traversing subtropical jungle on an island that is ninety percent forest.

A fast, snag-strewn forest river that Karol Wojtyła paddled long before he was Pope.

Cove-hopping under pine cliffs on Catalonia's wild coast.

Paddling out to wild Atlantic islands and the beach that tops the lists.

Flatwater paddling under 400-metre canyon walls on the Portuguese border.

Paddling the largest glacial lake in Iberia, in a green corner of Zamora.

A Sudeten river cutting rock gorges past medieval castles, finishing on a historic dam lake.

A clear, sandy-bottomed river winding through pine forest, one of the gentlest classic paddles in Poland.

A fast, narrow lowland river with tight bends and overhanging trees, livelier than it looks on the map.

A narrow, fast and overgrown forest river, often called the wildest paddle in western Poland.

A fast forest river through northern Wielkopolska, with a strong current all the way to the Noteć.

A meandering river and canal system through the Lubusz lakeland, ending at the old fortified region.

A fast mountain river through the Kłodzko Valley, with a gorge section at Bardo.

A nineteenth-century canal where boats cross hills on rail cradles, between lakes and forest.

The river of Warmia, from a spring gorge south of Olsztyn through castle towns to the north.

Paddling Lake Wigry and the Czarna Hańcza through a national park with no motorboats on the water.

A clear forest river with a sandy bed, running from the Knyszyn Forest down to Wasilków near Białystok.

Paddling the Biebrza through the largest natural marsh in Central Europe, best at spring high water.