“It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” Is there a more annoying phrase? It’s always said by people with an irritating abundance of personal freedom. You rarely hear it, for example, from those ...

Thirty miles off the coast of Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly (pronounced silly…cue lots of puns) are the UK's most southern islands and arguably also the most beautiful. Blessed with their own micro ...

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The ethereal shimmer of the quartz-encrusted sand as you step off the boat in the Isles of Scilly is the stuff of fairytales. Rather than mermaids, though, the oiled bodies on rocks are those of fat, ...

An Isles of Scilly harbour-front hotel has used funding from Lloyds to open new lodges this month, as the most recent push in its expansion journey. The four new lodges at Tregarthen's Hotel in St ...

Thirty miles off Land's End, on the southwestern coast of England, lies an England that time delightfully forgot, where there are no cars and people are friendly and the countryside is filled with ...

From the ramparts of the Star Castle Hotel, on the island of St Mary’s, the sea is iridescent, shimmering with all the shades of a peacock’s feathers. Beyond the chalk-white sails of passing-by yachts ...