Category Archives: Features
Find your bucket list of islands to visit
Introducing the definitive guide to the island bagging in England, Wales, Channel Islands and isle [...]
Slow travel destinations – islands of Britain
Do you ever wonder how you can responsibly travel in the UK? You’re in good [...]
Virtual Island Bagging Britain Step-up Challenge – north-west England, Wales and Ireland
Completion of our virtual island bagging Britain journey Last days step-up height achieved: 16,267 metres. Cumulative [...]
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Virtual Island Bagging Britain Step-up Challenge – Inner Hebrides
Days 28 – 44 of our virtual island bagging Britain journey Last 16 days step-up [...]
Virtual Island Bagging Britain Step-up Challenge – North Uist to Skye
Days 18 – 27 of our virtual island bagging Britain journey Last 7 days step-up [...]
Virtual Island Bagging Britain Step-up Challenge – Harris, Lewis and St Kilda
Days 12 -17 of our virtual island bagging Britain journey Last 5 days step-up height [...]
Virtual Island Bagging Britain Step-up Challenge – Wick to Ullapool
Day 11 of our virtual island bagging journey Today’s journey: north coast of Scotland, west [...]
Virtual Island bagging Britain Step-up Challenge – meeting Bryn
Day 10 of our virtual island bagging journey Today’s journey: meeting Bryn and high points [...]
Virtual Island Bagging Britain Step-up Challenge – north Shetland & meeting Bryn tomorrow
Day 9 of our virtual island bagging journey Today’s journey: high points of the islands [...]
Virtual Island Bagging Britain Step-up Challenge – west Shetland
Day 8 of our virtual island bagging journey Today’s journey: high points of the islands [...]
Virtual Island Bagging Britain Challenge – South Shetland
Day 7 of our virtual island bagging journey Today’s journey: high points of the islands [...]
Virtual Island Bagging Britain Step-up Challenge – Orkney to Shetland
Day 6 of our virtual island bagging Britain journey Today’s journey: high points of the [...]
Virtual Island Bagging Britain Step-up Challenge – Orkney
Day 5 of our virtual island bagging Britain journey Today’s journey: high points of the [...]
Virtual Island Bagging Britain Challenge – Essex to Orkney
Day 4 of our virtual island bagging journey Today’s journey: heading north from Sheppey Island [...]
Virtual Island Bagging Britain Challenge – Bristol Channel, Dorset & Hants and South East
Day 4 of our virtual island bagging journey Today’s journey: heading east from Looe Island, [...]
Virtual Island Bagging Britain Challenge – Scilly Isles, Cornwall and Devon
Day 2 of our virtual island bagging journey In our dreams we left Saye Beach, [...]
Virtual Island Bagging Britain Challenge – Channel Islands
Day 1 – Channel Islands In our dreams I left Portsmouth this morning after a [...]
The Virtual Island Bagging Britain Challenge 2020
Island bagging in its purist form is to climb to the high point of an [...]
Run into 2020 with our top island trail races
Islands are fast becoming the go to destination for trail runners looking for inspiring places [...]
The outdoor island events of 2020 not to be missed
Inspiration for an outdoors 2020 with some of the best events on the islands of [...]
Get Outdoors in the Outer Hebrides
Walk free-range coastal paths and mountain tops, swim and kayak off wild Atlantic beaches, be [...]
Top British islands for spotting whales, dolphins, killer whales and basking sharks
What better way to spot whales, dolphins, killer whales (orcas) and basking sharks than onboard [...]
Islandeering: the book
It’s out! Massive thanks to Wild Things Publishing for producing such a beautiful book and helping [...]
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Islandeering: turning what you’ve been told on its head
Caution: the following ignores all grown up advice Remember these words? Stay away from the [...]
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Take a ‘ball and chalk’ around an island in London
“I’ve been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh [...]
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What an extra £2 will give you on Brownsea Island
‘Quick if you look to the right you’ll see the Red Arrows’ said the head [...]
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Cycle around Harris in a day
Almost seventy glorious kilometres of empty roads, with over one vertical kilometre of climbing; tranquil [...]