Peering at the menu behind the counter, I worry for a moment that I’ve succumbed to sudden onset macular degeneration .........more

Our orange tent had tricked me with false sunrise. I shivered as mist lapped .........more

A skinny figure in an orange vest and straw trilby hurries towards me, hand outstretched...........more

Bald eagle, and oh, a wolf at 10 o’clock, I cry. Heads swivel; gasps of pleasure; clicks of cameras..........more

The brochure had promised amazing diversity and we were not disappointed. .........more

A savage dawn: bruised
heather hides scree gash; howling
burn bleeds peaty clots .........more

She’s in love with Jamie’s cheeky chapattis,
he adores Nigella’s chocolate mousse; .........more

The woman squinting through the narrow crack of Broom Cottage b & b's front door does not immediately strike us as the embodiment of Irish hospitality. .........more

He’s swept along through the shipyard gates
in a tight shoal of welders, platers, caulkers
and boilermen to wash up, Jonah-like, .........more

Post- Olympics they’ve gone crazy in our sleepy little village
there’s not been this much action since the Vikings came to pillage; .........more

In the warp and weft of her memory’s map,
fault-lines frayed through life’s unfolding, .........more

Waves lap at the doorways of the smart boutiques and dolphins frolic around the tables of the pavement cafes. .........more

Rough Guides Competition. .........more