Islands are the stuff of legends and mythology, places of paradise and purgatory, where crossing the water is often a metaphor for transformation. Home to many of our most iconic s ...

During the sultry summertime on the Western Yar River in Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight, while egrets, oystercatchers and curlew hunt for shrimps and shellfish, a stand-up paddleboa ...

1 FOR... WHITE SAND & SHELLS Shell Beach, Herm, Channel Islands One of the most beautiful beaches in the Channel Islands, Shell Beach on Herm is so named because of the millions of ...

Caroline Wheater enjoyed getting to know Alderney in the Channel Islands Part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency, Alderney is closer to France than any other ...

1 LUNDY, DEVON Sparkling clear waters, kelp forests, shipwrecks and an abundance of marine life make Lundy’s Marine Protected Area one of the UK’s finest diving sites with up t ...

Nestled in the mouth of Loch Moidart in the Highlands, on Scotland’s West Coast, Eilean Shona (pronounced il-lan show-na, after the Old Norse for ‘sea island’) is situated in ...

WHAT’S THE BUZZ? One Holyrood has everything you want from a great B&B: personal, friendly service, lots of character, its own unique style and fabulous cakes, all at very reason ...

FOR... FREE-RANGE KIDS ST MARY’S, ISLES OF SCILLY WHY GO? With little traffic or commercialisation, Scilly is a place where kids can enjoy greater freedom in the fresh air. The p ...

Sian Lewis decided to try to learn how to sail a tall ship The Bessie Ellen is one of Britain’s last traditional trading ketches to still sail our seas. First built in 1904 and t ...

The sun has just set and I slide onto a bench in a white-washed cowshed. Over the summer months, on tiny Bryher, the smallest inhabited island in the Isles of Scilly, this humble b ...