K icking out behind me, I sail through cool water as I look ahead – through the glass pyramid of the spa and up, up, up, to a sky that looks more like a Renaissance painting than a real backdrop, bedecked with luminous, peach-hued clouds that are lit by the waning sun as it makes […]
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During lockdown, many of us made the pilgrimage back to our family homes – and rediscovered them through fresh eyes. Part guide, part love letter, “Home towns” is a new series in which we celebrate where we’re from. After all, it could be a while before we can go anywhere else… Hippies, hikers, kooky cafes, […]
As the UK readies itself for another rise in domestic tourism, it’s a good time to end our toxic relationship with disposable camping, says Lizzie Cernik Source link
I maginative artworks of local fish decorate Loch Fyne Oyster Bar in Clachan, Argyll. Some are abstract, others anatomical, but together they convey the otherworldly beauty of the underwater life here in the southwest of Scotland. These are the same prints and paintings that I remember curiously sizing up when I visited as a child. […]
O n the single track road towards Burgar Hill Wind Farm, colossal 100m-high turbines cast silhouettes like triffids. Stand directly beneath them and the visceral swoosh of the blades as they pass overhead is among the strangest travel experiences you can have in Britain. It’s here on this exposed hilltop, one of the windiest places […]
During lockdown, many of us made the pilgrimage back to our family homes – and rediscovered them through fresh eyes. Part guide, part love letter, “Home towns” is a new series in which we celebrate where we’re from. After all, it could be a while before we can go anywhere else… As a teenager growing […]
I t’s been more than 13 months since I’ve seen my mum (or to use her proper name, mammy). It’s the longest I’ve ever gone without seeing her. We have been separated before – there was that year in Australia when I was 19, then six months in South America in my mid-twenties, which I’m […]
N o hills in sight, gaping skies, straight strips of tarmac, flurries of flowers, whimsical windmills and picturesque canals; I realised after moving to the Netherlands that the landscape was almost a mirror image of my home county in the UK, Lincolnshire. I felt a sense of comfort navigating such a familiar setting, the only […]
What’s cooler than owning your own private island? Owning your own private principality, of course. Lynn Houghton discovers the bonkers tale behind the little kingdom Source link
While hotels in England won’t be allowed to open fully until 17 May at the earliest according to the government’s roadmap out of lockdown, in line with the guidance that single households can book self-contained accommodation from 12 April many hotels are pivoting to offer standalone, self-catering options until they’re able to completely reopen. From […]