A walk on the Wild Side – Smuggler’s Cove.

I can't remember exactly how many smuggler's coves I've visited, but it's a lot - their appeal is irresistible. In the Caribbean they are perhaps at their most romantic; whilst in the Britain they're the sort of places you might expect to see on an episode of Poldark. Along England's  south west coast, where men in tricorne hats once shot unreliably at one other with flintlock pistols,  smuggler's coves are two a penny. My favourite cove is Lulworth in Dorset, it is amongst the most beautiful of any to be found in Britain and part of the Jurassic Coast World…

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The Skookumchuck Narrows – Going With the Flow on The Sunshine Coast.

My daughter thought that her mother and I could do with a break from the human clutter of British Columbia's Lower Mainland, and kindly booked us accommodation for three nights on the Sunshine Coast: a pleasant destination that lies across water to the north west of Vancouver; and we would benefit by visiting during May - arguably the best month to be anywhere that is natural in BC. Jen hasn't been well, so this will be a pleasant break for her; I was just pleased to escape the tedious chore of fencing the garden, and it wasn't long before we…

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