The plane has been there since 1973. To look at the thing now – the torso of an aircraft, riddled with bullets, left to erode on a black beach in southern Iceland – you’d imagine something sinister happened. A tragic crash, a plane shot down in battle, a Bermuda-triangle-style missing airliner. The eeriness of this rusting wreck is its greatest allure. If you’d prefer to keep it […]
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To The Lighthouse – Switching Off in Suffolk
“There’s something about being near the ocean”, said the taxi driver. He was a retired police officer, a sturdy, almost gruff fellow – he hardly seemed the sentimental type. But the sea does something to us all. “I can just sit and watch the waves, and feel content”, he said, sounding surprisingly wistful. This is precisely […]