It has a bus driven by a puffin, an upside-down lighthouse, 80,000 guillemots and a colony of golden hares that refuse to conform. Tim Earl takes us to Rathlin, the island where even Prince Edward found that the rules are a bit different…
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Jungle out there
June 22, 2010 – 10:00 am
MY BELOVED Madagascar suffered a crippling blow last year when political unrest led to the country being closed to most tourism.
Knocking on wood
May 29, 2010 – 9:00 am
PANDEMONIUM is not a word normally associated with cemeteries but one we visited in Estonia was certainly a place of ‘wild and noisy disorder’.
Laud of the rings
May 1, 2010 – 10:00 am
IN THE days when I was teaching birdwatching night classes it was not unusual for me to raise a laugh. Laughter is a good way of reinforcing a point.
The extra Nile
April 3, 2010 – 3:00 pm
THE tour-leader gene was rampant as I walked the Old Winter Palace gardens in Luxor.
The whale named ‘mouse’
March 6, 2010 – 10:00 am
A SONG thrush is singing despite the heavy frost which has coated fields around the upper parishes as I write this feature.
Time to get involved
February 6, 2010 – 2:30 pm
THE UK is awash with plans to establish marine nature reserves and conservation zones all around the country. Its Marine and Coastal Access Act has established four teams to identify conservation zones to protect seas around the coasts.
Destination: South Atlantic
January 9, 2010 – 2:30 pm
I WILL be attempting to find an orca (killer whale) or two for my clients as you read this article.
South for the winter
December 5, 2009 – 10:00 am
THERE was no doubt that seeing a giant anteater was my guests’ most wanted wish on a recent trip to Guyana. What they saw on the savannah close to the Brazilian border was altogether unexpected and wonderful: a female carrying its baby on its back – a rare and exciting sight.
Tennerfest serves up to half a million meals
November 12, 2009 – 2:29 pm
AFTER another successful year, the Tennerfest ends today. It was launched on Thursday 1 October.
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