Rocky mountain high

It’s the busiest time of year for Britain’s beautiful places. Yet as these locations prove, you can find silence, sensational scenery and space to breathe.

…it would be LIATHACH . Boisterous, delicately flavoured and fabulously moreish, this is the all-you-can-eat banquet you should sell a relative to attend. Here’s why.

Melanie O’Shea is a freelance travel and adventure writer based in Penzance, Cornwall. She recently completed Macmillan’s Gower Peninsula, 26-mile ‘Mighty Hike’. In 1926, three avid mountain walkers g

2025 marks 200 years since the birth of the modern railway, which gave millions of city-weary walkers a way to escape to the country.

You’ll find wild scenery, castles and more in this magical region

Places we've been, things we've seen, and mountain-related stuff we like