The British coastline adopts a unique atmosphere from October onwards, as the beaches empty and the skies darken. It’s one of the best times to experience the coastline in all its beauty, and you’ll often get it all to yourself.

The Solway Coast lies at the very beginning of Scotland, as you travel from the south. As Carlisle and The Lakes make way for Dumfries and Galloway, the first bit of coastline you reach belongs to Solway….

Nestled in the mouth of Loch Moidart in the Highlands, on Scotland’s West Coast, Eilean Shona (pronounced il-lan show-na, after the Old Norse for ‘sea island’) is situated in a hidden inlet. To the north and west lie Skye and the Hebridean islands, while to the south, on a small piece of rock, sits ruined Castle Tioram, home of the Clanranalds…

Northumberland is the northern most county in England. It’s also the least densely populated, with only 62 people per square kilometre inhabiting its windswept shores. These two facts were at the forefront of my mind as I ventured to explore the landscapes of Bamburgh and Seahouses, about an hour’s drive from Newcastle

‘A week’s wild camping and sea kayaking around the Summer Isles in Scotland plunges Jacob Little deep into an unspoilt coastal environment, allowing him to tune into nature and tune out of his hectic, day-to-day life….’

On the coastal edge of cultured and laid-back southeast Ireland, Jacob Little discovers that the market town of Wexford offers good food, music, bracing seaside and a strong sense of history…