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Isles of Scilly holidays

August 2023

  • A seal off the Isles of Scilly.

    Country diary
    Country diary: Snoozing seals and close encounters

    Great Ganilly, Isles of Scilly: We swim through a noodle-soup of seaweeds and see sleeping seals that are camouflaged perfectly until they move

June 2023

  • The white sandy beach and dunes at the northernmost Channel Island of St Martin’s .

    ‘We seem to have slipped into another time’: a walking holiday on the Scilly Isles

    On a self-led tour of this sparkling archipelago, the views and sense of ‘otherness’ prove captivating

December 2020

  • People enjoy drinks at the Mermaid pub on St Mary’s on the Isles of Scilly.

    Scilly islanders head to pub as England settles in for TV Hootenanny

    Landlords expect busy evening with residents making most of tier 1 regulations

August 2020

  • Beach at Pelistry Bay St Marys Isles of Scilly England Uk<br>B3YJW9 Beach at Pelistry Bay St Marys Isles of Scilly England Uk

    Idyllic and empty: a post-lockdown holiday on the Isles of Scilly

    The ‘Scilly season’ started late, and nervously, this year but that makes the dazzling white beaches all the more alluring

July 2020

  • Song thrush beside a gas canister

    Country diary
    Country diary: life lessons from a fearless song thrush

    St Agnes, Isles of Scilly: The children swarm over a rock fortress with giddy pinnacles and unnerving drops

March 2019

  • Harold Wilson in silhouette.

    Observer picture archive
    Observer picture archive: Harold Wilson, 5 April 1969

    Photographer David Newell-Smith joined the Prime Minister on a short Easter holiday on the Isles of Scilly

February 2019

  • Hottentot Figs (Carpobrotus edulis) in marram grass on Par Beach, St. Martin's, Isles of Scilly. May 2010<br>E45WGE Hottentot Figs (Carpobrotus edulis) in marram grass on Par Beach, St. Martin's, Isles of Scilly.

    Observer spring breaks
    Scilly season: why spring is the best time to visit

    Spring arrives early on Scilly and the charm of tiny, sleepy St Martin’s is that there is little-else to do but enjoy its flower-filled moors and coves

June 2018

  • The view across the Isles of Scilly from the island of Tresco.

    Taking flight: an Isles of Scilly family holiday adventure

    The new helicopter service is a fun way to arrive on Scilly; the short flight highlighting the contrast between the busy mainland and the remote bliss of the sand-fringed islands

February 2018

  • Island Helicopters plans to start flights to Scilly in May

    Scilly games: the islands’ battle of the choppers

    Two rival companies are bidding to start a new helicopter service to the Isles of Scilly this spring, the first since 2012

June 2017

  • A bar at the Low Tide Event.

    Party in the sea – between the Isles of Scilly

    The Low Tide Event is the ultimate pop-up, a mini festival held only twice a year when the sea recedes far enough to expose a sandbank linking Tresco and Bryher

February 2017

  • St Martins, looking towards Tresco, Isles of Scilly.

    Helicopter service between Cornwall and Scilly to resume in 2018

    New heliport in Penzance will restore service that last flew between islands and mainland in 2012

June 2016

  • Isles of Scilly police including Sgt Colin Taylor (centre).

    Like Heartbeat but less frenetic: Scilly police book set to be big hit

    Colin Taylor’s tales of keeping order on the remote islands off Cornwall have made him an international cult figure on social media

April 2016

  • Patrick Barkham

    Notebook
    We’ve betrayed our children for the love of cars

    Patrick Barkham
    A break in the Isles of Scilly showed me how children thrive away from traffic. Just a shame that we had to navigate the M5 to get there

June 2015

  • Great Bay beach on St Martins, one of the Isles of Scilly.

    Isles of Scilly holiday guide: what to do, plus the best beaches, restaurants and hotels

    Azure seas, sub-tropical gardens and white sand beaches and just 15 minutes from Cornwall … Gavin McOwan on the Isles of Scilly’s top places to eat, sleep and enjoy

October 2014

  • Bryher, one of the five inhabited islands in the Isles of Scilly.

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: How one Scilly isle became many

    Paul Brown on how changes in sea level drowned the fertile valleys of the island of Ennor to create the rocky islands we call the Scillies

February 2013

  • Scilly illustrated map

    Exploring the Isles of Scilly: camping and self-catering havens

    Scilly is a stunning archipelago off the south-west tip of Cornwall offering a unique, far-flung getaway from the UK mainland. Clare Gogerty starts her tour at the Troytown farm and campsite on the remote island (even for Scilly) of St Agnes

June 2012

  • View of St Mary's. An island part of the Isles of Scilly

    Isles of Scilly fear costly transport links will hurt economy and tourism

    Scilly councillors warn that without government intervention, islands could become 'a haven for the rich'

February 2012

  • Old Grimsby Harbour at Tresco island Isles of Scilly

    Joanne O'Connor's great escapes
    Goings-on in the Scilly Isles; a writer's hideaway; and three of the best retro retreats

    Reasons to visit the Isles of Scilly; beat a retreat to write; and three of the best vintage vantages

March 2011

  • Archipelage still

    Joanna Hogg's guide to the Scilly Isles - interactive

    The acclaimed new British film Archipelago is set on Tresco, one of the most stunning of the Scilly Isles. Director Joanna Hogg picks out her favourite places

December 2009

  • Battery Rocks in Penzance

    Penzance fights harbour plan for transport lifeline to Isles of Scilly

    • Residents oppose project to build terminal for larger boat
    • Planning delay could sink £40m project
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