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Day: June 5, 2016

Far-flung isle

Many years ago I read an article in the Sunday Times magazine about the island of St Helena. It told of a place that to me seemed some sort of paradise. It was the one of the remotest inhabited islands on the planet, a lump of rock in the middle of the south Atlantic, andRead More

Luke McKernan June 5, 2016April 29, 2018Comments (7)

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