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On a recent visit to Madeira, I noticed that I share my 65th birth year with their beautiful Royal Botanical Gardens. Dennis Stuart, Aberdeen Rather bravely, my husband retired early, later becoming a

From dilapidated cottages to the site of a notorious nuclear disaster, what is behind the longing to seek out abandoned places, asks Katie Scott