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  • We like the look of the Island Retreats trip, a low-key journey from Portsmouth to the Scilly Isles, Channel Islands, Brittany and Normandy.

    Sea change: 10 quirky cruises 2011

  • I had a fantastic holiday to the Scilly Isles with two other dads and our three kids about ten years ago.

    Kara Ross: Q10 With Rankin Kara Ross 2011

  • The biennial race takes the fleet 608 miles along the south coast of the UK, across the Celtic Sea to the Fastnet Rock off south west Ireland, before returning around the Scilly Isles to the finish in Plymouth.

    Fastnet race yacht capsizes off Ireland 2011

  • This brave follow-up is even more uncomfortable and less narrative-driven, as a well-to-do family's get-together in the Scilly Isles turns into a slow, sparse drip of resentments, silences, joyless activities and blithe snobbery.

    This week's new films 2011

  • I had a fantastic holiday to the Scilly Isles with two other dads and our three kids about ten years ago.

    Kara Ross: Q10 With Rankin Kara Ross 2011

  • The official warmest place in the UK is the Scilly Isles, as recognised by the Met Office.

    Weatherwatch: Forget the Balearics – come to Bognor 2011

  • One February dusk I saw one drop hurriedly from the blasting Atlantic sky into a tiny garden of three or four stunted trees on Bryher on the Scilly Isles—about as far from the unending forests of the taiga as I could imagine.

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

  • The story line in some ways feels like a seven day tour with Sunday being Monte Carlo, Monday in Cornwall, Tuesday in the Scilly Isles, etc.

    Name to a Face-Robert Goddard « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009

  • I fancy most of us gave a good sigh of relief when at last we were clear of the Scilly Isles.

    The South Pole~ On the Way to the South 2009

  • The moon shadow crossed the Atlantic from a point east of Cape Cod, Mass. -- glimpsed only by an occasional ship and those who had paid top dollar to watch it in the Concorde -- and then made landfall on the Scilly Isles, which guard the English Channel.

    Eyes On The Eclipse 2008

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