Travel journal

Famed for its rugged coastline, native Irish speakers and fascinating geology, west and south-west Ireland is a real treat to explore, and the perfect place to discover on our small group tours!

Our small group tours of Scotland are designed to give you a true taste of the country, with handpicked experiences, lovely local experts and a perfect mix of culture, history and geology to really add an extra layer to your visit.

It takes a certain combination of factors to make a landscape creepy – endless fires, swarming snakes and sinister seas can have the right effect! Read on to find out about Earth’s most unsettling landscapes…

While a (relatively) small country, the UK packs in plenty of curiosities, including singing beaches, Scottish elephants and scores of shipwrecks. These are just some of the British Isles’ points of interest – read on to find out more.

Looking to hit the open road and go on an adventure? Here are 5 of the best road trips in the world, with drives through earth history and stunning landscapes.

Let’s take a walk through the deep time, human history and future of a peculiarly pickled region of the Pyrenees… Think of it as a taster for our tour package to the Spanish Pyrenees.

The gradual and incredibly powerful movements of glaciers and ice sheets over the millennia have left lasting marks on our natural landscape – read on to find some stunning locations created by ice.

Islander Jess Vian gives us a glimpse into daily life on the Isles of Scilly. In the process, she reveals a few stories about this beautiful and intriguing archipelago, from an incredible lighthouse-building family to rocks that look like chimpanzees.

Fossils are so much more than the ancient remains of eras long locked away in history. When you understand how they came to be here and how they amazed people then and continue to amaze now, you understand how fossils have the power to change the way we see the world around us, both physically and intellectually.

Jon leads our tour showcasing spectacular scenery and dinosaurs in Canada’s Rocky Mountains and Badlands, and provides participants with some unforgettable experiences while doing so. But what do leaders do for their own vacations?