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AUTHORKirsty Fergusson is an award-winning travel writer who spent several years living near St Buryan in the far west of Cornwall. She began work as a freelance garden writer in the 1990s after working as head gardener on a historic Dorset estate and for six years was weekly garden columnist to...

AuXhory Adrian Phillips joined the staff at Bradt Travel Guides in 2001 after completing a PhD in English literature. Two years later, he left his desk for several months to research Bradt guides to Hungary and Budapest with Jo. Hungary: The Bradt Travel Guide subsequently won the award for Best...

ntroduction The flight to the island of Maic was full. As the tiny propeller plane bounced over Atlantic air currents, I was the only passenger to gaze out with a lick of fear at the mighty mid ocean below. Inside the plane everyone else seemed to have forgotten the sea. All was exuberance,...