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Jul 2, 2024 | 
msn.com | Mark Rowe
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Mark Rowe
If you asked a child to design a place of empty landscapes, big skies, hills and rivers, dotted with picturesque villages and an extinct volcano thrown in for good measure, they would end up with something that very much resembled Northumberland National Park. Of the 13 national parks in England and Wales, Northumberland is the most northerly, most remote, and least visited. It’s the least populated of all the UK’s 15 protected landscapes.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
ramblers.org.uk | Mark Rowe
By Mark RoweWhy not take to the water as part of a summertime walk? From car ferries to rowing-boat ferries and everything in between, our island nation offers countless vessels which can easily be incorporated into a day's rambling. 1. Lake Windermere, Cumbria The Windermere ferries are a brilliant way to escape the throngs in the eponymous and ever-popular Lake District town.
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May 10, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Mark Rowe
10 May 2024 • 11:00am Osborne House is denying the King Charles III England Coast Path access Credit: Jim Holden/English Heritage Trust English Heritage has been accused of making a new nationwide walking trail “unfit to be called the King’s Coast Path” by blocking access to Osborne House, Queen Victoria’s summer retreat on the Isle of Wight. Ramblers have threatened a judicial review unless an agreement on a proposed footpath can be found. The National Trail was renamed the King Charles III...
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
msn.com | Mark Rowe
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
msn.com | Mark Rowe
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Mark Rowe
23 April 2024 • 5:00pm While the auk was made extinct in the 1800s, visitors to Orkney can still spot puffins Credit: Alan Tunnicliffe Photography As I clambered over a step-stile, Papa Westray’s maritime heath opened up ahead, colonies of Scottish primrose creating a parti-coloured island view, gently sagging on three sides to the coast. There, sloping gulches of enormous up-ended slabs of rock cut deep inland. Great skuas, known locally as Bonxies – huge, unsettlingly beady-eyed birds –...
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
scribd.com | Mark Rowe
If you’re after a year-round holiday destination in the UK, the Isle of Wight is pocket-sized yet picturesque – and it’s only two hours from London. Once famous for being a bucket-and-spade, budget destination, the island – the second-most populous in England – has reinvented itself as a place for a stylish sojourn by the sea. It now offers an impressive array of food and drink spots (more than 50 independent producers, at the last count).
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Sep 10, 2023 | 
msn.com | Phoebe Smith |Paul Bloomfield |Richard Madden |Mark Rowe
Poets always seem to know best. And when it comes to our natural instinct to explore, to travel, and to go places we have never been before, T S Eliot knew better than anyone that, ultimately, home soil is the most important travel destination of them all. “The last of Earth left to discover/Is that which was the beginning.” These lines from the Four Quartets are a crucial insight for all those who love travel.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
discoverbritainmag.telegraph.co.uk | Mark Rowe
Mark Rowe tells the story of Henry VIII’s cherished ship, the Mary Rose, lost to the sea for centuries before being reclaimed and turned into an incredible visitor attractionWords by Mark RoweWhat happened to the Mary Rose? The year is 1545 and France has amassed a huge fleet bent on invasion along the southern coast of England. But this is the reign of King Henry VIII, stout of stature and spirit, who commands a powerful fleet which includes his beloved, formidably armed Mary Rose.
