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Galley Cove Beach is one of West Cork’s quietest and most rewarding stretches of sand, a small sheltered cove near Crookhaven that most visitors drive straight past. The water is calm and remarkably clear, the crowds are thin even in August, and the headland directly above hides one of the most surprising stories on the […]

Three Castle Head is one of the most extraordinary places in West Cork, and one of the least visited. At the far western tip of the Mizen Peninsula, beyond Crookhaven and beyond the reach of the tour buses, a rough walk over open moorland leads to Dunlough Castle: a 13th-century ruin perched above a dark […]

Mizen Head is the most south-westerly point of mainland Ireland and one of the most dramatic places to visit on the entire Wild Atlantic Way. The big draws are the 1910 arch bridge spanning a churning Atlantic gorge, the cliff walk above 100-metre drops, and the old signal station, now a museum, perched at the […]

A Mizen Peninsula day trip from Cork is one of the best ways to experience West Cork, taking in dramatic Atlantic cliffs, a medieval castle ruin, a hidden beach, Ireland’s true southernmost point, and the famous Mizen Head bridge, all in a single day. This guide lays out the full route from Cork city, with […]

Brow Head, near Crookhaven in West Cork, is the true southernmost point of mainland Ireland, not Mizen Head, as almost every guide assumes. It’s a wild, unmarked headland reached by a short walk from the coast road, with sweeping Atlantic cliff views, a ruined Napoleonic signal tower, and a remarkable connection to Marconi’s earliest wireless […]

The mighty volcano of Santorini erupted around 1600 BC, sinking the centre of the island and giving birth to one of the most spectacular landscapes on earth. White-washed villages cling to the rim of the caldera, blue-domed churches catch the afternoon sun, and the deep, deep blue of the Aegean stretches all the way to […]

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Most people drive straight past Ross. The Midland Highway bypasses the village entirely, so unless you know it is there and make the deliberate turn, you will never see it. That is actually part of why it is still worth seeing – the bypass that inconveniences drivers is the same reason Ross has remained one […]

I love Lombok. Every time I go, I make the same quiet promise to myself — that one day, when life allows it, I’ll buy a piece of land near one of these beaches and stay forever. It’s the natural beauty, yes, but more than that it’s the quietness. The absence of the mass tourism […]

I have visited 43 countries and passed through more cities than I can count. Launceston is not a city that announces itself loudly. It does not have a famous harbour or a skyline you recognise from postcards. It is compact, quiet, and slightly hilly – the kind of place that rewards walking rather than rushing. […]