Isles of Scilly

This summer, I will be traveling to Britain, Ireland, and Scotland to visit some of their historic sites. Today I have been learning about the Isles of Scilly, to decide if I should visit there. The Isles are an archipelago of six inhabited islands and several other rocky islets lying 28 miles off the coast of Cornwall. They are the most westerly part of England. The islands are protected by the ocean, and because of that, they rarely have frost or snow. Nonetheless, they do see occasional Atlantic storms.

The islands are definitely SMALL – just a few kilometers in area, if that! These are the type of islands that I think of when I imagine being lost on a deserted island – although these islands are definitely not deserted! Scilly has a fascinating history dating all the way back to the Stone Age, and including the Norse and Norman periods, the Middle Ages, and everything since.

I’ll definitely have to look into visiting Scilly. I can get Flights from Newquay, in Cornwall, to the islands, a helicopter from the mainland, or a ferry from Cornwall. It sounds like a neat place to visit!