2 Ergebnisse.

The British Isles including Ireland are a unique tapestry of islands off the Continental shelf of NW Europe. Though there are thousands of islands making up this archipelago, a modest 221 (excluding Great Britain and Ireland) are permanently inhabited, mostly in the Gaelic, Irish and Welsh or Celtic west.

John had always wanted to walk the coastline of the UK and after successful hip surgery, after a foot and mouth epidemic that had all but closed the countryside was declared over, he set off on foot from Land's End to circumnavigate an island with a longer coastline than France or India with a variety of landscapes, seascapes and cultures.