Susanne Masters

An adventure travel hotspot and also home to unique wildlife.

New Year is often a catalyst for new direction, and spa gardens offer inspiration for nurturing wellbeing at …

A luxury hotel with a medieval castle at its heart, staying here lets you be part of the story.

Collector's edition of Elsewhere, gathering stories, photographs and reflections from two decades of swimming…

Botanical ingredients can enhance texture, add tannins, and thicken thin spirits. Here's what to know.

Margate's shell grotto....

As swimmers, we see more kelp than most people.

If you love the succulent taste of scallops but abhor the destruction wrought by dredging as a fishing techni…

Rock stacking; an urge to make a mark that has consequences, both for navigation aids and disturbing niches t…

Gentian has been used to bitter liqueurs and vermouths for centuries. Here's what to know about this alpine p…

Lowland meadows used to be managed as floodplains; cut for hay in summer and then used for grazing. they made…

As leaves fall it's time for lichens to shine, not just in forests but also their waterside haunts.

Hadrian marked Northumberland with a wall for the same reason that we went there; it lies between Scotland an…

Summer is when valerian blooms and catches swimmers' attention, autumn is the time for harvesting roots...

Public consultation on trawling ban.

Planning experimental design to evaluate influences on wildlife trade, I remembered seeing Atlantic horseshoe…

Around the autumn equinox in September and spring equinox in March is when tidal bores can be at their most p…

Great seagrass survey, and wild dye plants.

Illegal for over 300 years, poitín went legit in 1997 and was granted protected status a decade later. But on…

Floral ingredients have been used in distilling for centuries. But do you really know how to get the most fla…

Grab a few fig leaves.

Raising the treeline - montane trees.

Midsummer and the trees are verdant with fresh leaves in their full mature size. If you want to do more than …

Lost Footpaths