Article originally featured in the January 2024 issue of Yachting Monthly. Artist Joanna Martin sailed south along the wild west coast of Ireland, where the power of the ocean meets rugged cliffs and deserted shores. She joined husband Mark and son William for part of...
6th August 2023 I have been supplying cards and prints to Kilchoman Distillery for a number of years and every time I pack up an order I try and picture where it is going. So on our way home we sailed to Islay and I was determined to visit the distillery. It turned...
These are my 5 gift recommendations for lovers of wild coastlines and the birds found there. 1. Curlew Moon Gift Box I only have 4 of these left! A copy of ‘Curlew Moon’ by Mary Colwell, an engraved Curlew enamel mug, a pouch of delicious NearyNógs stoneground...
Having spent a day and two nights in Florence we travelled by train at 120 km/hr to Venice. I have often thought about Venice, where the roads are made of water and transport is by boat, and here I was at last. City of Light To me this is a place about light,...
Earlier this month I visited Italy for the first time. The first two nights were spent in Florence in an Airbnb apartment close to the centre of the city on Via Sant’Antonino. Despite it being October the weather was like a heatwave at home. After dragging our...
Sailing Wildlife Adventure: Day 16 – What an experience this was… Lunga is part of the Treshnish Isles and as usual we didn’t know much about it, we hadn’t visited it before because the weather had been so bad. Today again the sea was a flat...
Sailing Wildlife Adventure: Day 9 – We continued walking across the Island of South Uist towards the western coast where there are endless white beaches (20 mile long). The grassland alongside the beach is called ‘Machair’, a Gaelic word meaning...
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