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James Litston explores the rural idyll of Rutland on an ebike. While there, he recommends visiting Egleton Birdwatching Centre and says the finest food to be found is in the town of Oakham.
Best UK photography locations (where you can still avoid the crowds)
May 25, 2021
With travel abroad still looking uncertain this year, top landscape pros compile a new bucket list of great locations in Britain that avoids the obvious honeypots and camera-wielding staycation crowds
Scotland
Eilean Bàn (White Island)
This six-acre island (situated between the Isle of Skye and mainland Scotland) is a haven for wildlife with otters, seals, cormorants, shags and herons regularly sighted from its shoreline.
Eilean Bàn is the former home of author Gavin Maxwell and, as such, there is a museum dedicated to him close to the water’s edge. The island supports one of the struts of Skye Bridge and has its own lighthouse, offering plenty of opportunities for wildlife, landscape and architecture images.
The hidden British delights we discovered during lockdown
From glorious coastlines to humble hills, these places are keeping us sane
Normanton Chuch
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Covid may have narrowed our horizons, but it cannot take our wanderlust. If there has been a silver lining of lockdown, it is the opportunity – nay, compulsion – to explore our own back yards. To take a second look at the spots that we never, pre-pandemic, gave a moment s thought to.
We once rushed through these places – on our way to somewhere bigger, brighter, busier – but now they have become our escapes, a little haven of discovery and adventure. And, it turns out, they were worth exploring all along.