A British Island Adventure

Due to the vagaries of the Small Isles ferry, we spent a bit longer on Rum than we anticipated. You might think that eight days would be ...

We all have big plans and dreams, but sometimes life takes over. Literally in our case, as our first child, Gracie Bee, was born in M...

The April issue of Country Walking magazine is a fantastic themed issue on 'Treasure Islands' – featuring walks around British...

  Could Nowhereisland be our 487th British island? Well, no. Although it visited British waters this summer it is not ours to own. The...

Everyone had told us how good the Isles of Scilly are but its charms just seemed too obvious and too easy compared to the remote, less po...

Barra was the one island we had always wanted to visit before we began A British Island Adventure. Drawn as we were by its tropical whit...

There are two main ways to get to Skye from the mainland: the old fashioned way by ferry from Mallaig to Armadale or the modern way acr...

Chesil Beach We couldn't leave it there, we had to go back – lured by the South West Coast Path around the edge of Portland. Ch...

Grove housing, Portland Yes, Portland is an island! Well, kind of. It is tied to the mainland by one of the most famous tombolos in the...

Wakering Steps Along with a handful of other anorak clad hikers, we were picked up by coach outside the church at Great Wakering in Ess...