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Metal Roof Colors Guide: How to Pick the Right Color in Alabama & Florida (2026)
Picking a metal roof color in Alabama or the Florida Panhandle is less about taste and more about heat, HOA covenants, and what holds its color when the sun is on the roof 280 days a year. Here's how Ridgeline customers actually choose. Start with the climate, not the color chart Roof color affects attic temperature by 25-40 degrees on a summer afternoon. In Huntsville and Mobile that's the difference between an HVAC system that keeps up and one that runs nonstop from May through September.
Metal Roofs That Look Like Shingles: Real Options for Alabama & Florida Homes (2026)
If you want the lifespan of a metal roof without the warehouse-barn look, you have options - but only two of them are worth the money in Alabama and Florida. Here's the real difference between metal-that-looks-like-shingles products and which one fits your home.
Can You Paint a Metal Roof? Costs, Risks & When It’s Worth It (2026)
Short answer: yes, you can paint a metal roof, but it's almost never the smart play. Most "I want to paint my metal roof" situations are really one of three other problems in disguise. Here's how to tell which one you have. The three real reasons people ask this When Alabama homeowners ask if they can paint their metal roof, it's usually one of these: The factory finish is chalking or fading. The roof is still structurally sound but it looks tired. The color doesn't match the house anymore.
How to Pay for a New Roof in Alabama & Florida: Programs, Plans & Direct-Pay Terms
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Exploring Scotland's Islands: A guide to their landscape, history, culture and nature
By (author) Terry Marsh Explore the enchanting islands of Scotland with this absorbing and beautiful guide. Around the coast of Scotland there are hundreds of islands, from bare, rugged skerries to lush dominions of history and deep-rooted culture.
The Best Mountains To Climb In The UK - The Independent
From K2 to Kilimanjaro, there are dozens of famous mountains across the world that each year attract thousands of visitors in attempts to scale their heights. With the world’s highest peaks reaching over eight thousand metres, such mountains are a serious – and expensive – challenge, with only the experienced able to attempt them.
The West Highland Way: Milngavie to Fort William Scottish long-distance route
Home > Travel > The West Highland Way: Milngavie to Fort William Scottish long-distance route By (author) Terry Marsh A guidebook to walking the West Highland Way, one of Scotland’s Great Trails. Covering 155km (97 miles) from Milngavie to Fort William, the route is suitable for walkers of most abilities and takes around a week to complete. The trail is described from south to north in 7 stages of between 14 and 33km (9?20 miles).
West Highland Way Map Booklet: 1:25,000 OS Route Mapping
By (author) Terry Marsh A booklet of all the mapping needed to complete the West Highland Way, one of Scotland’s Great Trails. Covering 155km (97 miles) from Milngavie to Fort William, the route is suitable for walkers of most abilities and takes around a week to complete.
Rothay Manor Hotel
Terry Marsh visits the lovely Rothay Manor Hotel following the opening of its new Pavilion extension. Close by the River Rothay on the outskirts of Ambleside, the Rothay Manor Hotel, known before it became a hotel as Rothay Bank, was the sometime residence of John Crosfield, a retired wholesale grocer from Warrington. The house was built at his behest around 1835 in the pre-railway days, though he was still trading as a merchant in Warrington in 1841.
The Girl in the Picture
This is our UK/International web site. Do you want to go to the US/Canada site? When Alice, a divorcee of five years, discovers a photograph among her late father’s possessions, she wants to know more. Her father’s handwriting tells her that the girl in the picture is her great-great-grandmother. The child on her knee, her son. Set in the county of Lancashire, and in two time periods, the story of the girl in the picture, Mary Ellen, is of her time in domestic servitude.
Why Utilities organizations need a CDO to achieve resiliency
Add to Calendar Why Utilities organizations need a CDO to achieve resiliency Join us for an exclusive session with Peter Jackson, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Exasol, Jamal Syed, President and CEO at HEXstream, Randy Howard, GM at Northern California Power Agency, and moderated by Andreas Walter, GM North America at Exasol. You will also be joined by Heads of Data and Analytics from leading Utilities discussing their challenges and sharing what has worked to drive business value with data.
Walking on the West Pennine Moors - 30 day walks Lancashire
eBook also available on Size 17.2 x 11.6 x 1.1cm This guidebook describes 30 walks on the West Pennine Moors, around Blackburn, Darwen, Chorley and Bolton, home to some of the most inspiring and exhilarating walking country. The walks range from short, easy rambles to more challenging hikes covering a variety of terrain, all of it easily accessible for day walking.
Guide to Madeira
Often cited as a destination for Saga louts, or a welcome port in many a cruise ship’s storm, Madeira has come in for some unfair criticism over the years for, it is claimed, favouring the more mature rather than the 18-30 brigade and families. Here is my personal guide to Madeira, a very special drop in the ocean. Churchill thought it was wonderful, and visited many times, and maybe that invited the original sin from the elder generations.
Riding the legendary Ghan from Adelaide to Darwin
Terry Marsh experiences a memorable three-day journey cocooned in all-inclusive luxury aboard Australia’s legendary Ghan Express. Darwin’s railway station is about 20 kilometres out of town and receives only two trains a week, which must be a huge disappointment to the city’s trainspotters. Still, it’s a massive improvement on what they had before 3 February 2004, when the inaugural journey northwards from Adelaide and Alice Springs completed the north-south rail link.
Review: Travel guide to Rocamadour by Terry Marsh for TripReporter
Travel guide to Rocamadour. Looking from a distance rather like a bad architectural pile-up in imminent danger of collapse, the lovely village of Rocamadour in the department of Lot rises high above the Alzou canyon, a tributary of the Dordogne river. The best view of Rocamadour is from the roadside just below L’Hospitalet, and it will come as something of a shock, a tiny village with a worldwide reputation built into a cliffside in what seems like a perpetually perilous state.
Waterhead Hotel, Cumbria
Opened in the early part of the 20th century, the Waterhead Hotel, south of Ambleside, was one of a new ‘breed’ of hotels purpose-built to accommodate the rising tide of affluent tourists to the Lake District. It benefited, too, from the ferry service that ran from Newby Bridge at the southern end of Windermere lake to Waterhead at the northern end. A cutting-edge enterprise then, it remains so today, under the umbrella care of the English Lakes Hotel group.
The Devonshire Arms Revisited
I’ve always been wary of going back to hotels and restaurants I’ve previously enjoyed because of the risk of finding that it no longer matched our expectations. First impressions are often dusted with fairy magic – bright, exciting, wonderful. Second impressions often lead you to discover that the fairy princess is now one of the ugly sisters. But we had no cause for concern. Our revisit to the Devonshire Arms in Wharfedale, North Yorkshire was every bit as pleasurable as last time.
Knockinaam Lodge
On 6 June 1944 and during the long summer that followed, men from all over the world went to fight in Normandy to defeat Nazism and re-establish freedom across Europe. So, coincident as it was, it nonetheless seemed fitting that 75 years later to the day my wife and I turned up at a remote hotel on the south Galloway coast, Knockinaam Lodge.
Just Wild about Mull
Separated from the Scottish mainland by the Sound of Mull and the Firth of Lorn, the island of Mull, with an area of just under 90,000 hectares, is the fourth largest of the Hebridean islands, framed by a coastline deeply penetrated by a ragged 480km (300 miles) of sea lochs and inlets. This is an island of enchantment and considerable diversity.
Fenwick Arms, Claughton, Lancashire
With a pedigree that is more than 250 years old, the historic and atmospheric Fenwick Arms in Lancashire’s Lune valley has a clichéd old world charm that might be expected. Set along the A683 between Lancaster and Kirkby Lonsdale, the Fenwick, as my wife and I discovered, is a great place to relax in front of a log fire and enjoy a daily changing menu. If the man I chatted with, leaving as we arrived, is telling the truth, it’s the best pub food for miles.
The Kitchin, Leith
Each wedding anniversary my wife and I seek out a fine dining restaurant in which to celebrate. And even though we are both capable of throwing together some decent scran at home and swigging a fine bottle of wine with gusto, the differences between that and dining in a Michelin-starred restaurant are considerable, to say the least. For a start, we have to do the whole thing ourselves, set against the fact that there is something rather appealing by having everything done for us, once in a while.
Rosslyn Chapel, Midlothian
Long before Dan Brown and the Da Vinci Code heaped attention on this extravagantly ornate chapel set on a low hill above Roslin Glen in the Midlothian countryside south of Edinburgh it had been a popular destination for generations of curious travellers. The chapel was founded in 1446 as a place of worship, a flamboyant expression of Gothic architecture that in time was described as a Third Temple of Solomon for the Knights Templar as well as a Grail chapel.
Mousa, Shetland Isles
The island of Mousa is a special place for several reasons, and anyone visiting Shetland during the summer months should find time to take the short boat ride from Sandsayre on ‘The Mousa Boat’. To begin with, Mousa lies directly on the 60th parallel: 60 degrees north of the equator, 30 degrees south of the north pole. Of course, if your intention is simply to go farther north than 60 degrees then the south mainland of Shetland works just as well and avoids the boat trip.
Merrell’s MQM Flex Gore-Tex Trail Shoe
They are described as a ‘trail’ shoe; the fastest, lightest hiker shoes on the market. But wandering around Funchal in Madeira all day is quite a trail, too, at the end of which my feet are often in need of refreshment. But this new hybrid shoe from Merrell – a cross between a running shoe and a mainstream walking shoe – certainly eased things considerably and made for a more pleasurable experience, without the throbbing toes.
Insider guide to Madeira’s restaurants
Terry Marsh is a veteran of Madeira having spent over fifteen years writing about the island. Here, he gives us an insider guide to his favourite restaurants and foods you can find on Madeira. My wife is sipping the daily cocktail – a Hardly Wallhanger, or something like that. Yesterday it was the Tequila Sunrise; tomorrow it will be a Pina Colada.
JNcQUOI Restaurant | TripReporter
My wife says she’s been dining out with a dinosaur for years, but this was the first time I had. The dinosaur in question was the centrepiece of the restaurant JNcQUOI in central Lisbon. I’m not sure what thought process led to someone thinking that the skeleton of a dinosaur was the perfect thing for a restaurant, but it didn’t look all that threatening. In any case, I was more interested in what was on the menu, not what might have been.
Insider Guide to Orkney
For today’s visitors, Orkney is a charming and beguiling place; charismatic, enthralling, enlightening, and tantalisingly close to the Scottish mainland, just 10 miles away. After the ruggedness of Highland Scotland, Orkney seems tame, a low-lying landscape of fecund fertility with a sense of place, where softly undulating hills merge with sky and sea in a synergy of harmonious relationships.
Reviewed: The Salutation Hotel
Having occupied one corner of the centre of Ambleside for more than 360 years, it is not surprising that the Salutation Hotel has acquired both a history and a reputation. Today, it is an ambitious, bright and lively spa hotel with more than 50 agreeable rooms with all the accoutrements that might be expected of a contemporary hotel in a commercially competitive era.
Trip Review: Up Helly Aa, Shetlands | TripReporter
A hundred years from now, Shetland’s fire festival, Up Helly Aa, will be the stuff of legend; a litany of morphed tales of Viking lore handed down over the generations, titivated and embellished in the process…rather like all legends, in fact.
Wiggly, Wobbly, Wonderful Mont Saint-Michel
Sitting at the mouth of the Couesnon river, off the coast at Avranches, Mont St-Michel looks like a rather bad architectural pile up, not unlike a reject from the ‘Great British Bake Off’. Today, of course, it is an icon of France, one of the country’s most instantly recognisable landmarks, attracting millions of visitors each year who come to expend disproportionate amounts of cash on parking, food and drink, and dubious souvenirs.
Reviewed: Cringletie House Hotel | TripReporter
It ought to be axiomatic that there are times when, given the pace of modern living, we just have to step off the travellator of life, and take a break. Let the rest of the world muddle on, while we ‘Take Five’, or whatever it needs to revive a flagging spirit. This is what my wife and I found ourselves doing at the Cringletie House Hotel, a few miles north of Peebles – that’s cringle-tee, by the way.
Reviewed: The Grant Arms Hotel | TripReporter
One ‘word’ admirably sums up the Grant Arms Hotel in Grantown-on-Spey – WYSIWYG: What you see is what you get. There are no pretensions here ? even though Queen Victoria and Prince Albert once stayed ? just the welcoming and quiet efficiency of a mainstream 50-room, 3-star Gold hotel and restaurant.
Isle of Eriska Hotel Hilltop Retreats | TripReporter
I awake to a gentle dawn chorus of willow warblers in the surrounding lichen-clad silver birch; a delightful prod into another day, backed by silence rather than urban cacophony. Out in the Lynn of Lorn, the low-slung island of Lismore rides at anchor, and, beyond, the bosomy hills of Morvern rise gently to airy Beinn Mheadhoin. It’s a peaceful scene, and a perfect way to start the day.
New Tank Museum to open in Cambrai northern France
In June 2017, the famous World War One tank known as ‘Deborah’ will begin her final journey to a purpose-built new home at the soon-to-be completed Cambrai Tank 1917 museum. Deborah, a 26-ton female Mark IV British tank, is the star exhibit at the new museum dedicated to the Battle of Cambrai, which will open on November 26, 2017, one hundred years after the battle in which Deborah and 475 other British tanks fought.
The Petwood Hotel
Arrival at The Petwood Hotel was greeted by disconcerting ambiguity. A surfeit of RAF personnel and people dressed in outmoded fashions had me wondering if I had passed through a time warp back to a parallel universe set in 1940s.
Washingborough Hall Hotel
Lincolnshire is not short of stately homes, country houses and castles, notably the Elizabethan mansion of Doddington Hall, and the ghostly haunt of the Pilgrim Fathers, Gainsborough Old Hall. But just two miles or so from the city centre, the compact village of Washingborough, with its stone-built cottages clustered by the church and along the High Street, can boast Washingborough Hall, a late Georgian manor house, dating from the 1700s, and a Grade II Listed Building.
More Secret Skye
Following on from his first Secret Sky piece, Terry Marsh opens the lid on more Secret Skye locations on the wonderful Isle of Sky. Of course, there is precious little of Skye that is ‘secret’, but there are places to which only the adventurous among visitors reach, places I should, perhaps, leave you to find for yourself. So, in offering just a few more, you can be sure that I have kept quite a few in reserve.
Isle of Skye review by Terry Marsh
Described on a visit in 1933 by the then Duke of York (later King George VI), as ‘the isle of kind and loyal hearts’, Eilean a’Cheo, the Isle of Mist, is second in size only to the Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Such has been the sway of the Isle of Skye on the senses of visitors that it has assumed other names, too: the Isle of Enchantment, the Isle of Mystery, the Isle of Fantasy.
Devonshire Arms Hotel
Settled peaceably near the intersection between the A59 and the river Wharfe, the Devonshire Arms Hotel has an air of lordly splendour, a commanding presence with a pedigree that is getting on for 300 years old, and possibly more.
Three days in Lyon
The greatness of Lyon’s past is amply matched by its contemporary cultural dynamism and diversity. Sited at the meeting point of two great rivers, was always a guarantee of prominence, and today Lyon is France’s second city. Here is my travel guide to three days in Lyon Few would disagree that for the visitor, Lyon offers so much more than Paris. But in spite of its urban sprawl there is an intimacy and warmth about the bouchons of Lyon that is often lacking in Parisian equivalents.
Hotel Les Esclargies
The chic Hotel Les Esclargies in Rocamadour is my kind of hotel. Spending a fair amount of time in luxury hotels gives you an eye for what really matters and what is just ostentatious fluff. But what serves me best is an uncomplicated place of simplicity, with a certain amount of elegance, and a shedload of peace and quiet.
Restaurant Favre d’Anne
Only a short time after returning to Angers following a year’s sabbatical, which cost him the Michelin star he rightly deserved at the original Restaurant Favre d’Anne, the eponymous Pascal Favre d’Anne had regained his distinction. If you think about it, that tells you a great deal. The new restaurant is bright, compact without being overly intimate, and, as with many restaurants these days, has an open plan kitchen wherein the team can be scrutinised as they prepare dishes.
Review: Hotel d’Anjou by Terry Marsh for TripReporter
Set on the boulevard Maréchal Foch, the Hotel d’Anjou is a perfect base from which to explore the city of Angers. Each of the 53 rooms has individual style with historical furniture, not that far from the original design of 1865. The furniture may be antique, or it may be simply neo-antique, but that doesn’t really matter. It’s all very charming, bon chic bon genre without even so much as a nod to Paris.
Northcote Restaurant
Not for the first time, my wife and I ventured to Northcote restaurant in the delightful Ribble valley, just twenty minutes from our home. Chef-patron Nigel Haworth, has held a Michelin star for many years for, as the Michelin guide says, ‘Refined, sophisticated cooking [that] shows depth of flavour and a lightness of touch’.
How To Hire A Car In France With A British Driving Licence
Avoid driving license confusion: Your licence and driving in France Changes to your licence: As of the 8 June 2015, the paper counterpart to the photocard driving licence was abolished. This change affects people with driving licences in England, Scotland and Wales. Please note, however, that there is still a requirement for a paper counterpart in Northern Ireland. If you have a paper counterpart at home, the advice from the DVLA is to destroy it; it is no longer needed.
Guide to Aveyron
Much less well-known or visited than it deserves to be, Aveyron is a department of remarkable contrasts; of verdant undulating, never-ending landscapes largely unspoiled by Man; distinctive, authentic and as close to La France profonde as it is possible to be. Terry Marsh uncovers his Guide to Aveyron.
Strasbourg. City guide by Terry Marsh for TripReporter
Little more than two hours from Paris by TGV, Strasbourg is an inspiring city with an age-old centre, a go-ahead culture, chic boutiques, High Street stores, and a wealth of fine dining and high-end restaurants serving imaginative offerings of regional and international dishes.
Tour de France 2016 Departs From Mont St Michel Normandy
On 2 July 2016, the Tour de France Grand Départ pedals off from the legendary Mont St-Michel in the Manche region of Normandy. With 355km of coastline and the largest network of country roads in France, the Manche is an ideal setting for the start of the Tour de France. Stage 1 (2 July) will start from the spectacular UNESCO-listed Mont-Saint-Michel, one of the most loved and iconic landmarks in France.
Shetland. Islands with Latitude
In 1999, when I first visited Shetland, I was presented with a certificate confirming that I had been farther north than 60°; it was a marketing ploy, but I was pleased to receive it – and still have it. Latitude, clearly, was anything but a geographical platitude to these people of the far north of Britain, closer, as they are, to the Arctic Circle than they are to London, and on a level with Hudson Bay in Canada, St Petersburg in Russia, Stockholm in Sweden and Helsinki in Finland.
Angel’s Restaurant
Special wine is for special occasions; and the same is true of dining out. So, it was with no small measure of joy that on the proverbial dark and stormy night, in search of epicurean delight that didn’t require an advance visit to the bank for a mortgage, my curious finger flipped its way through the Michelin Red Guide to alight on Ribchester and Angel’s Restaurant, not far from my Lancashire home.
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