Dark nights don’t have to be spooky, thanks to these sparkling UK sites

Exciting ways to get away from it all

During the 1960s, I lived on a farm on the outskirts of Huddersfield. One night something happened to a friend and me which we were unable to explain. The farm was at the top of a hill and there were

This phenomenon turns seas and other large bodies of water into a mirror-like surface

Smothering, transformative and beautiful, fog’s close-set shroud has inspired titans of literature, cinema and art–and forces the rest of us to look at the world a little closer, writes John Lewis-Stempel

Discover the best of our coast by night with a host of incredible after-dark adventures