When I told friends that I was going to Skye for a week’s holiday, they warned me that rain, hail or thick fog would descend and ruin the trip. “It always rains in Scotland” was their warning cry. But they were wrong – when I arrived, it didn’t […]
St Michael’s Mount is one of Britain’s most stunning coastal locations. It’s the jewel in Cornwall’s crown. This small island is cut off from the mainland several times every day so it has a character all of its own. A flotilla of small boats carries passengers from one side of the […]
It’s bird bonanza time on the Farne Islands as migrating birds flock onto the islands for the summer season. This makes the Farnes one of my top summer holiday trips. For our feathered friends, this is more than a bird vacation. They are here for romance and – let’s be […]
Acadia National Park is one of those awesome places that crams a lot of stunning scenery into a relatively small space. This beautiful park has everything from mountains and gentle hills to a rocky coastline and an archipelago of islands. I was lucky enough to visit the park […]
The West Frisian Islands are Holland’s wildest and most remote travel destination. They are what you might call ‘the back of beyond’. You can’t get much further north than this archipelago of islands which form a chain off the tip of Holland in the Wadden Sea. The islands are on UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites […]
I love islands. There’s something about their isolation and separateness from the modern world that intrigues me. It’s almost as if they exist locked inside a time capsule, bound by their own sense of space and time. Horizons unlimited. Sometimes they’re wild and forgotten places but they can […]
“Don’t miss Stockholm – it’s Europe’s most beautiful city,” a group of Dutch tourists gushed when we were travelling around Scandinavia on a recent tour. Although we were six hours drive away, we decided to blast it up north in the camper van. How could we miss a city […]
Grace Darling was one of the most famous heroines of the Victorian period in England. She was a national treasure, an icon, a heroine. Everybody knew the name of this ordinary woman who lived in a lighthouse on a remote island in northern England. Grace’s courage in saving […]
There’s nothing quite like a crisp winter day on Lindisfarne with bright sunshine and clear skies. Lindisfarne is an exhilarating place any season of the year but December is one of my favourite months. The crowds have gone, the beaches are empty and the village has the sleepy air […]
Today’s weather has been very odd with three seasons in one day. A blast of Arctic winds brought snows, sleet and wintery weather. By lunchtime it had brightened up and an autumnal glow descended on North East England. When the sun emerged and the temperatures warmed up, it […]
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