We Came by Sea europa point The divided but interconnected waters

The divided but interconnected waters of the Irish Sea – from the narrow North Channel through St George's Channel to where the Celtic sea opens out into the wide Atlantic – have a turbulent history to match the violence of its storms

Chapter 29 Wind Heeling

detailed maps accompanying each route and some wonderful photography

- Bedfordshire

RNLI Chief Executive

We Came by Sea europa point The divided but interconnected watersEvery day and every night when the sea was calm they came, and most days the newspapers and the websites said the same thing: 'migrants' in 'small boats' were crossing the English Channel. Rescuers were 'overwhelmed', coastal towns were 'up in arms'. Over and over, the headlines and the photographs told us this story. But no story has only one side, as Horatio Clare discovered when he began his journeys between Dover and Calais, where he met and