Travel journal

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.

Our tour experts are often in the news: read a recent article from one of them, Rob Knipe.

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…

Cultural and Historical Adviser Professor Mark Hammond discusses the unique approach the company is taking to the relationship between geoscience and history.