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The 10 best beaches on the Isle of Wight
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The 21 best restaurants on the Isle of Wight
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What happened to the Mary Rose?
The year is 1545 and France has amassed a huge fleet bent on invasion along the southern coast of England. But this is the reign of King Henry VIII, stout of stature and spirit, who commands a powerful fleet which includes his beloved, formidably armed Mary Rose. The imminent Battle of the Solent, off the coast of Portsmouth, must keep the French at arm’s length. Henry VIII won the battle but lost his ship.
Ullapool | DiscoverBritain.com
The Highlands are certainly not short of exhilarating roads but can any better the thrill of the A835? Just a few miles beyond the Kessock Bridge, the iconic gateway that traverses the Moray Firth from Inverness into Scotland’s high north, you reach the Tore roundabout and are faced with a tricky choice.
The insider guide to Northumberland – the UK’s most overlooked national park
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The insider guide to Northumberland – the UK’s most overlooked national park
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The insider guide to Northumberland - the UK’s most overlooked national park
If you asked a child to design a place of empty landscapes, big skies, hills and rivers, dotted with picturesque villages and an extinct volcano thrown in for good measure, they would end up with something that very much resembled Northumberland National Park. Of the 13 national parks in England and Wales, Northumberland is the most northerly, most remote, and least visited. It’s the least populated of all the UK’s 15 protected landscapes.
Ten Places - Sail and Stroll
By Mark Rowe Why not take to the water as part of a summertime walk? From car ferries to rowing-boat ferries and everything in between, our island nation offers countless vessels which can easily be incorporated into a day's rambling. 1. Lake Windermere, Cumbria The Windermere ferries are a brilliant way to escape the throngs in the eponymous and ever-popular Lake District town.
Why you should explore the lost land of the auk – Britain’s most underrated destination
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Why you should explore the lost land of the auk – Britain’s most underrated destination
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Why you should explore the lost land of the auk - Britain’s most underrated destination
As I clambered over a step-stile, Papa Westray’s maritime heath opened up ahead, colonies of Scottish primrose creating a parti-coloured island view, gently sagging on three sides to the coast. There, sloping gulches of enormous up-ended slabs of rock cut deep inland. Great skuas, known locally as Bonxies – huge, unsettlingly beady-eyed birds – watched me warily. But it was another bird that I’d come to pay homage to.
Best Isle Of Wight Hotels 2023: Where To Stay For Great Food And Beach Views - The Independent
If you’re after a year-round holiday destination in the UK, the Isle of Wight is pocket-sized yet picturesque – and it’s only two hours from London. Once famous for being a bucket-and-spade, budget destination, the island – the second-most populous in England – has reinvented itself as a place for a stylish sojourn by the sea. It now offers an impressive array of food and drink spots (more than 50 independent producers, at the last count).
What to see and do in our 34 unsung AONBs
Poets always seem to know best. And when it comes to our natural instinct to explore, to travel, and to go places we have never been before, T S Eliot knew better than anyone that, ultimately, home soil is the most important travel destination of them all. “The last of Earth left to discover/Is that which was the beginning.” These lines from the Four Quartets are a crucial insight for all those who love travel.
The insider guide to Northumberland - the UK’s most overlooked national park
If you asked a child to design a place of empty landscapes, big skies, hills and rivers, dotted with picturesque villages and an extinct volcano thrown in for good measure, they would end up with something that very much resembled Northumberland National Park. Of the 13 national parks in England and Wales, Northumberland is the most northerly, most remote, and least visited. It’s the least populated of all the UK’s 15 protected landscapes.
The Mary Rose: A Tudor time capsule
Mark Rowe tells the story of Henry VIII’s cherished ship, the Mary Rose, lost to the sea for centuries before being reclaimed and turned into an incredible visitor attraction Words by Mark Rowe What happened to the Mary Rose? The year is 1545 and France has amassed a huge fleet bent on invasion along the southern coast of England. But this is the reign of King Henry VIII, stout of stature and spirit, who commands a powerful fleet which includes his beloved, formidably armed Mary Rose.
A journey through the heart of Celtic Wales
It feels as though I’m standing on top of a supertanker hewn from ancient rock. Far below, the flatlands of the Tywi Valley fan out around the serpentine, eponymous river. My berth is Garn Goch, the larger of two conjoined Iron Age hillforts atop an escarpment to the southeast of Llandeilo. Ravens croak, twittering skylarks lurch upwards, red kites tilt their fiery tails this way and that. Clumps of boulders, massing five metres in height, lend Garn Goch a staggering stature.
A journey through the heart of Celtic Wales
Mark Rowe travels through the heart of Celtic Wales to meet some of the people keeping local traditions alive Words by Mark Rowe It feels as though I’m standing on top of a supertanker hewn from ancient rock. Far below, the flatlands of the Tywi Valley fan out around the serpentine, eponymous river. My berth is Garn Goch, the larger of two conjoined Iron Age hillforts atop an escarpment to the southeast of Llandeilo.
The Adventures of the Karillapig
Have you ever wondered who lives on the dark side of the Moon? Well wonder no more as you are introduced to the one and only Karillapig. The Karillapig lives on the dark side of the Moon and is here on Earth to 1) Investigate our strange Earthly ways, and 2) Find out how exactly Earth beings achieved space travel.
Access to justice in Solomon Islands
A new survey into justice mechanisms in Solomon Islands shows that significant advancements have been made since the end of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands, but also that much more needs to be done, Tom Sloan, Sinclair Dinnen, and Mark Rowe write. Accessing the state justice system has been a longstanding challenge in Solomon Islands.
The best coastal views & great places to eat in North Devon
Another outstanding and luxurious choice for food and rest is the Dunkery Beacon Country House Hotel, set back just 10 minutes’ drive above Dunster in the village of Wootton Courtenay. Here John and Jane Bradley welcome you to one of the moor’s gems. Chef-proprietor John wins regional food awards year after year. Tasty and beautifully presented food in a contemporary setting can include Somerset rib-eye steaks followed by blackberry and apple crumble.
Walk to the future - Ramblers
01 June 2020 The global pandemic has underlined the importance of walking and accessing nature, raising some big questions – and unique opportunities. Mark Rowe considers the implications. By:Mark Rowe The global pandemic has underlined the importance of walking and accessing nature, raising some big questions – and unique opportunities. Mark Rowe considers the implications So then, how are your local walks going?
What to do in Exmoor
Why go Straddling Somerset and Devon, Exmoor is a national park of formidable drama, with steep-sided valleys, known locally as coombes, and russet-hued moorland punctuated by solitary trees that have been twisted and contorted by the wind. A red deer, sporting a crown of antlers, may emerge from the mist; a brooding raven may flap moodily by. This is an elemental landscape that reaches all the way to the sea, as the moors merge with the coast and plunge precipitously into the Bristol Channel.
How to spend a weekend on the Cumbrian coast
Donât turn left. As you travel from north to south along Cumbriaâs magnificent forgotten coast, resist the siren-like call of the honeypots of the Lake District. Forget chocolate-box views of neatly tended valleys and villages and instead expect big skies and dreamy seascapes. This is where Cumbria juts its chin out into the Irish Sea, where the outliers of Lakeland fells meet the water and turn to sand.
National Geographic Traveller (UK)
Home / Smart Travel / Stay at home: Bishop’s Castle Image: Alamy Share this Why go Tucked away in rural Shropshire, and just two miles from the Welsh border, Bishop’s Castle is a quirky rural pit stop, its jumble of townhouses and timber-framed buildings home to a number of artists and craftspeople. Check out the one-handed clock on St John’s Church— a fitting symbol of the town’s palpably slower pace of life. What to do Don your walking boots and head out into the Shropshire Hills.
The Big Walk More Moor
Two moors, two beautiful National Parks and two spectacular coastlines, with over 100 miles of breathtaking countryside along the way. Take a walk along Devon’s dramatic and historic Two Moors Way Words by Mark Rowe and photography by Steve Morgan How do you feel when you start a long-distance walk? Eager? Full of anticipation? As I stand on the shores of Wembury in south Devon, I feel both emotions, but I also find my feet wanting to stay put.
Stay at home: Dartmoor
The national park is remote, often brooding and severe but with gorgeous valleys and top-of-the-world viewpoints. Dartmoor also feels lived in. If you stay a while, you’ll become beguiled by a very different way of living, where self-sufficiency and blacksmiths, shoemakers, and weavers are commonplace. Wistman’s Wood — a haunting leftover of dwarf oaks from the Stone Age forest that once covered Dartmoor.
Stay at home: Isle of Wight | National Geographic Traveller (UK)
What to do The Isle of Wight’s many sandy coves and bays remain a magnet for the bucket-and-spade brigade.
Interview with Mark Rowe
We chat to Mark Rowe, author of our guide to the Outer Hebrides, about walking, wildlife, and his favourite place to eat on the islands. I first visited in the late 1980s. I was travelling round Europe on an Inter-Rail ticket and was in former Yugoslavia. I had 4 days left and as you do at that age, it seemed a good idea to get as far as I could before midnight on the last valid day! The ticket gave you half-price train travel in the UK and I took the Caledonian sleeper from London to Inverness.
The desolate and dazzling English-Scottish border
“The weather’s decent. Let’s pop up to the border and look at the volcano.” It’s not really a proposal you expect to hear in Britain. An hour later, having hiked from the small Northumberland town of Wooler to the summit of Humbleton Hill, we arrive at a cairn and are greeted by two cackling black grouse and the hunched silhouette of our volcano: the Cheviot. It’s the highest peak in an eponymous range of mountains that forms part of the border between England and Scotland.
Spain: Camino de Santiago | National Geographic Traveller (UK)
Also known as the Way of St James, the Camino de Santiago has been one of Europe’s most iconic routes since ninth-century pilgrims began making their way to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela to venerate the remains of St James (one of the 12 apostles, and the patron saint of Spain). There are 13 main variations on the route, including five originating in France, seven in Spain and one from the Portuguese coast.
Spain: Best walking trails | National Geographic Traveller (UK)
The Sierra offers insight into traditional farming life as well as glorious, quintessential Andalucian scenery, from whitewashed villages to chestnut forests and free-roaming Ibérico pigs. The hiking usually begins from the town of Aracena and its Moorish castle, passing through a succession of pretty villages, alongside waterways and over the watershed of the Sierra through a landscape crisscrossed with stone walls.
Malaysia: Caving with a difference | National Geographic Traveller (UK)
It’s almost impossible to have a bad meal in Malaysia — something brought home to me as I waited under leaden skies by a roadside, waiting for my bus to Batu Niah.
Family travel: A dash of Danish charm | National Geographic Traveller (UK)
“No, we’re not going to Legoland,” I explain patiently to my son, Thomas, as we disembark from our overnight train from Germany. Of course, Legoland is one of two reasons you’d take your children to Denmark; Tivoli Park in Copenhagen being the other.
Cotswolds: The honeyed stone heart of England
I leave the rather out-of-place multi-storey car park behind and squeeze through the packed streets — entering a world where artisan cheesemakers load their stalls to bulging, one with teetering wares that are all but toppling onto those of a pesticide- and fertiliser-free jam producer who flavours her marmalades with Southern Comfort. This is a real market, operated by farmers who rear real animals and depend on the weekly showcase as a meaningful platform for their living.
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There’s a lovely scene in Crocodile Dundee where Paul Hogan’s character, Mick Dundee, fresh from the Outback, leans out of a car window in Manhattan and introduces himself to a stereotypical, metropolitan business suit who’s clearly not at ease with the notion of talking to fellow human beings, particularly ones he’s never met before. “I’m in town for a couple of days, probably see ya around,” says Mick, with a wave. We laugh at him and — I guess — at ourselves.
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