Nature on the Isle of Man

Experience the Isle of Man’s traditional railroad, the Train Journey. The train pulls out of Port Ealing station and announces its departure with a cheerful whistle. As the train picks up speed, smoke rolls past the windows, adding magic to the landscape: meadows, hedgerows and patches of woodland in full bloom with purple mauve. This…

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Delicious sauce

It’s a sauce that tastes on the salty side, but works well with lighter ingredients – sticky potatoes, hard-boiled eggs – and sweet ingredients like roasted peppers and cooked tomatoes. Of course, you can also use it as a sauce for fish – spoon it on top. Learn to make this unique sauce, you only…

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A quiet seaside town in Ireland

On a weekend morning in June, in unusually wet and windy weather, I traveled to Union Hall countryside in West Cork to experience a short vacation that left me feeling surprisingly excited. Access to this picturesque little fishing village is via a single track Poulgorm Bridge. This narrow bridge was built around the 1890s and…

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