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Scottish Sun
3 days ago
- Scottish Sun
I visited the sunny Scottish island that feels more like a chic Caribbean beach holiday
Tiree is the Caribbean beach holiday destination you can reach without a passport SHORE BET! I visited the sunny Scottish island that feels more like a chic Caribbean beach holiday Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) I HAD only been awake for an hour and I'd immersed myself in Scandinavia and the Caribbean, with a side helping of haggis. Such is the joyful confusion of taking a holiday on Scotland's sunshine island of Tiree. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 4 A beautiful thatched cottage on the island of Tiree - the 'sunniest place in Scotland' Credit: Alamy 4 There are plenty of waves to be enjoyed for surf fans Credit: Alamy 4 Visitors can see the island by cycling its scenic routes Credit: Alamy Dubbing somewhere the 'sunniest place in Scotland' sounds like faint praise — a bit like awarding a prize for the sandiest part of the Sahara or best-ever episode of Crossroads. But, thanks to the Gulf Stream, Tiree — with its population of barely 600 — really does have more hours of sunshine than anywhere on the UK mainland per year, despite its chilly-looking position in the Inner Hebrides islands. Checking into the Reef Inn after the three-hour ferry crossing from the pretty mainland town of Oban, I felt I'd been transported to a chic boutique bolthole in Helsinki or Stockholm. While so many hotels in the Scottish Highlands and Islands have maintained a traditional decor of wall-to-wall tartan and complimentary shortbread, the Reef Inn does things differently. Pale wood floors, sheepskin throws, a white four-poster bed and funky Scandi-retro furniture fitted in fabulously well with the views out over an unusual landscape. Unusual because Tiree doesn't have the soaring mountains, blind glens and deep forests you would expect from the Hebrides. This island is table-mat flat, giving the views from my window a gorgeously calming air, with the rolling grasslands and the odd cottage being the only distraction from the panoramically large blue skies, dotted with the smallest ice cream scoops of cloud. After a delicious breakfast of potato scones and vegetarian haggis, I drove to explore Tiree's main draw — its quite stupendous beaches. Turquoise waters There are dozens of coves, bays and yawning stretches of sand tucked into the folds of Tiree, but none are more beautiful than Balephetrish. Located on the western edge of this tiny, 12 mile by three mile island, I began strolling along an immense curve of sand the colour of vanilla and milk, and as soft as gossamer, all backed by Mohican tufts of marram grass. Discover the Scenic Arran Coastal Way It's a gorgeous day and yet, as the turquoise waters kiss the shoreline, I'm the only person here barring one man grappling manfully with his surfboard, perhaps in training for the Tiree Wave Classic event which is held every October. I don't even have to scrunch up my eyes to pretend that I'm in one of the quieter, more chic Caribbean islands, like Anguilla or Grand Turk, except there's no sun loungers and nobody trying to get me to buy overpriced cocktails. Tiree offers something far more disorientating than a shot of rum; this is an island that's home to some deeply strange structures known as 'brochs'. I'm seriously starting to wonder why I ever submitted to an eight-hour flight to Barbados Built sometime between the first century BC and the first century AD, it's believed that these circular stone structures were lived in by invaders from England, who ruled over the local population. The broch I clambered around, called Dun Mor Vaul, still has its lower circular stone walls intact. With just a few hardy sheep for company, the view from the summit here is enchanting; a soft, whispering breeze rustles the clusters of thrift sea pink flowers, while skylarks and oystercatchers sing their way out over the silver and tin coloured waves. 4 A cruise ship passes close by the island Credit: Alamy Back on Balephetrish Bay later that day, I sigh as the sand slips between my toes and the sun casts its beam upon my shoulders. I'm seriously starting to wonder why I ever submitted to an eight-hour flight to Barbados. Tiree is the Caribbean beach holiday destination you can reach without a passport. And it turns out that haggis, heat and the Hebrides make for a surprisingly seductive combination.
The Irish Sun
3 days ago
- The Irish Sun
I visited the sunny Scottish island that feels more like a chic Caribbean beach holiday
I HAD only been awake for an hour and I'd immersed myself in Scandinavia and the Caribbean, with a side helping of haggis. Such is the joyful confusion of taking a holiday on Scotland's sunshine island of Tiree. Advertisement 4 A beautiful thatched cottage on the island of Tiree - the 'sunniest place in Scotland' Credit: Alamy 4 There are plenty of waves to be enjoyed for surf fans Credit: Alamy 4 Visitors can see the island by cycling its scenic routes Credit: Alamy Dubbing somewhere the 'sunniest place in Scotland' sounds like faint praise — a bit like awarding a prize for the sandiest part of the Sahara or best-ever episode of Crossroads. But, thanks to the Gulf Stream, Tiree — with its population of barely 600 — really does have more hours of sunshine than anywhere on the UK mainland per year, despite its chilly-looking position in the Inner Checking into the Reef Inn after the three-hour ferry crossing from the pretty mainland town of Oban, I felt I'd been transported to a chic boutique bolthole in Helsinki or Stockholm. While so many hotels in the Scottish Highlands and Islands have maintained a traditional decor of wall-to-wall tartan and complimentary shortbread, the Reef Inn does things differently. Advertisement READ MORE TRAVEL REVIEWS Pale wood floors, sheepskin throws, a white four-poster bed and funky Scandi-retro furniture fitted in fabulously well with the views out over an unusual landscape. Unusual because Tiree doesn't have the soaring mountains, blind glens and deep forests you would expect from the Hebrides. This island is table-mat flat, giving the views from my window a gorgeously calming air, with the rolling grasslands and the odd cottage being the only distraction from the panoramically large blue skies, dotted with the smallest ice cream scoops of cloud. After a delicious breakfast of potato scones and vegetarian haggis, I drove to explore Tiree's main draw — its quite stupendous beaches. Advertisement Most read in Beach holidays Competition Turquoise waters There are dozens of coves, bays and yawning stretches of sand tucked into the folds of Tiree, but none are more beautiful than Balephetrish. Located on the western edge of this tiny, 12 mile by three mile island, I began strolling along an immense curve of sand the colour of vanilla and milk, and as soft as gossamer, all backed by Mohican tufts of marram grass. Discover the Scenic Arran Coastal Way It's a gorgeous day and yet, as the turquoise waters kiss the shoreline, I'm the only person here barring one man grappling manfully with his surfboard, perhaps in training for the Tiree Wave Classic event which is held every October. I don't even have to scrunch up my eyes to pretend that I'm in one of the quieter, more chic Caribbean islands, like Anguilla or Grand Turk, except there's no sun loungers and nobody trying to get me to buy overpriced cocktails. Advertisement Tiree offers something far more disorientating than a shot of rum; this is an island that's home to some deeply strange structures known as 'brochs'. I'm seriously starting to wonder why I ever submitted to an eight-hour flight to Barbados Built sometime between the first century BC and the first century AD, it's believed that these circular stone structures were lived in by invaders from England, who ruled over the local population. The broch I clambered around, called Dun Mor Vaul, still has its lower circular stone walls intact. With just a few hardy sheep for company, the view from the summit here is enchanting; a soft, whispering breeze rustles the clusters of thrift sea pink flowers, while skylarks and oystercatchers sing their way out over the silver and tin coloured waves. Advertisement 4 A cruise ship passes close by the island Credit: Alamy Back on Balephetrish Bay later that day, I sigh as the sand slips between my toes and the sun casts its beam upon my shoulders. I'm seriously starting to wonder why I ever submitted to an eight-hour flight to Barbados. Tiree is the Caribbean beach holiday destination you can reach without a passport. Advertisement And it turns out that haggis, heat and the Hebrides make for a surprisingly seductive combination. GO: TIREE GETTING THERE: Caledonian Sleeper runs trains six nights a week (not Saturday) from Euston to Fort William, from £270pp return based on two sharing a cabin. From there, you can take trains to the ferry port in Oban, where CalMac operates vessels to Tiree (£29.65 for a foot passenger return). See and . STAYING THERE: Double rooms at the Reef Inn from £165, including breakfast. See . MORE INFO:
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Driven to Wisconsin after helping win U.S. Revolution, Mohicans now have bought land back home
One of the most storied tribes in Indian Nation has taken another step toward reclaiming history that was ripped away from it more than 200 years ago. The Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Tribe of Wisconsin recently closed a deal to purchase 372 undeveloped acres of Monument Mountain, which carries sacred meaning and is part of its original homeland in Massachusetts. The Mohican Tribe had been located on what is now parts of Massachusetts and New York for thousands of years before being forced to move by European colonists, and eventually settling in Wisconsin more than 200 years ago. The tribe has been reclaiming some land in New York and Massachusetts in the past few years. More: This tribe helped win the Revolution, then were expelled and migrated to Wisconsin. What's changed now? 'It represents a 'landback' movement to reclaim land in a way that differs from the Western colonial way of thinking about it,' Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation President Shannon Holsey said in a statement. 'We are trying to reclaim our ways of being, which was never based on money. It's the reclamation of our kinship systems, our governance systems, our ceremony and spirituality, our language, our culture and our food and medicinal systems. Those are all based on our relationship to the land.' Mohican people still make pilgrimages to Monument Mountain as it has always been a place where tribal members would leave stone offerings imbued with prayers to Creator. The stones had been formed into a monument, giving the mountain its name. The mountain's peak reaches 1,642 feet and includes public hiking trails offering views of a river valley and the Berkshires highlands and Catskill Mountains. In 2023, Massachusetts Commonwealth legislators voted to award the Mohican Nation $2.6 million to assist it in purchasing the mountain. With the award, the tribe is now responsible for implementing tribal conservation and forest management strategies on the mountain. The award is part of ongoing efforts by Massachusetts officials to renew relationships with the tribe. That's a shift from the tribe being unwelcome more than 200 years ago. The town of Stockbridge, Massachusettes, was founded in 1739 as a kind of experiment in which Mohicans and colonists would live, work and govern together. Mohicans also helped to win the American Revolution, serving as scouts and warriors for the Continental Army. General George Washington visited Stockbridge shortly after the war to thank the Mohicans personally for their services. More: Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican officials aim to prove feast with George Washington happened But the founding of a new nation also attracted many more European immigrants who coveted property owned by the Mohicans and other Indigenous peoples. The Mohicans were driven away from Stockbridge and from New England, eventually settling on Menominee land in Wisconsin, where they were joined by a group of Delaware people known as the Munsee. 'I feel like we have an opportunity to welcome people back,' said Patrick White, selectman for the Stockbridge Town Board, to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel last year. 'I personally have had enough of the division (in America).' In 2021, the conservation group Open Space Institute returned part of an island from the Mohican ancestral homeland in New York to the tribe. The 156-acre portion of Papscanee Island, in the Hudson River, that was returned to the tribe remains a nature preserve with a public hiking trail. More: New York island returned to Wisconsin-based Mohican Nation after hundreds of years Sign up for the First Nations Wisconsin newsletter Click here to get all of our Indigenous news coverage right in your inbox Frank Vaisvilas is a former Report for America corps member who covers Native American issues in Wisconsin based at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Contact him at fvaisvilas@ or 815-260-2262. Follow him on Twitter at @vaisvilas_frank. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Mohican Tribe in Wisconsin reclaims sacred mountain in Massachusetts
Telegraph
27-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Move over stealth wealth, ultra-rich dressing is back
Let's be clear, haute couture has always been for the ultra-wealthy. The clue's in the word haute. But with the leaders of the planet's richest, most powerful tech companies doggedly sticking to a wardrobe that looks more Aldi than Armani Privé and film stars not paying for anything they wear on a red carpet (although often they are paid), it has been hard to see couture's purpose of late. Meanwhile, ready-to-wear labels such as Lora Piano, Brunello Cuccinelli and The Row, all makers of sublimely luxurious, loosely cut clothes that to the untrained eye might look like quite nice blankets, have cleaned up. Yet with In the seven years she has headed the creative side of Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri, often derided by the social media gallery for being 'too commercial', has made Dior one of those high end luxury brands that sells not just accessories, but a lot of tailored clothes. She placed its meticulously tailored Bar Jacket (first introduced in 1947 as part of Dior's iconic New Look) front and centre and constantly updated it. It is already a Now she's turned it into something quirkier and more gothic: a frock coat, sometimes jet beaded and long enough to be worn as a (mini) tuxedo dress. At first sight these frock coats appeared to be cut away at the front, and buttonless. But as she explained backstage, the nehru neck lined gilets and filmy chemises underneath were buttoned into the frock coats. They could be worn as a combination or separately. More practicality. The frock coats were part military, part Mad Hatter – there was definitely something of the Victorian Alice in Wonderland afoot. Black goth jackets with puff sleeves, trompe l'œil feathery capes (the feathers were fabric fronds), airy crinolines and Mohican hairdos intercut white broderie anglaise baby dolls. All nicely discombobulating. It was Yves Saint Laurent, barely into his 20s, who, in 1958, came up with the baby doll silhouette when he was at Dior. Although it has been far eclipsed as a Dior signature by Dior's 1947 New Look, the baby doll (or trapeze as it was known) has been much copied ever since. Bypassing the waist in a triangular whoosh of fabric, it's so different from the chiselled bar jacket it's hard to imagine the same customer wearing it. But as Chiuri says, 'fashion is all about shape shifting and transforming our bodies.' It was smart of her to pivot to a more youthful mood – and smarter still to ensure there was plenty of recognisably Bar Jacket tailoring. There are plenty of inexpensive dupes of The Row's tailoring which are fairly convincing until you feel the fabric. But I've never seen a bar jacket copy that comes close to the real thing. Chiuri is a maestro of unmistakably expensive but never vulgar polish. Under its brilliant Roseberry is a big talent who, since he joined it in 2019, has taken Schiaparelli from an also ran heritage house to one that attracts a disproportionate amount of media attention. In the beginning, he achieved this with slickly orchestrated gimmicks guaranteed to stir up controversy. Remember the dresses he designed two years ago featuring what looked like This collection was gimmick free however, unless you count that tiny waist (the nearest I've ever seen on a catwalk, to the waists in John Singer Sargent portraits). Instead there were plenty of cantilevered bustiers, cleverly framed behind drape-fronted corsets – and sweeping skirts. I'm sure Roseberry was working on this collection long before
