The moon makes a silver path over Tor Bay. It’s framed by clouds of steam, glowing lilac in the train’s floodlights. This is the view from my toasty carriage on the Dartmouth Steam Railway’s Train of Lights. It’s one of many things I would have missed if I’d come in …
Read More »Steam trains, shipwrecks and Peter Pan’s garden: 10 great UK family days out for half-term and autumn
Ride the Flying Scotsman, Dorset The famous engine will be 100 years old next February, and to kick off celebrations marking its centenary, the locomotive will be steaming up and down the heritage Swanage Railway during half-term. The public will be able to book tickets to ride behind the Flying …
Read More »Seals and shipwrecks: lapping up the beauty of the northern Aegean
I tiptoe along the dune-edged path, bare feet scratched by bone-white slivers of shell as the sun rises above the Aegean’s waves. Ahead of me a Mediterranean monk seal lounges on one of the sunbeds of Marpunta, a remote resort on the windswept southern tip of Alonissos. I watch as …
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