Isles of Scilly holidays

Country diary: Snoozing seals and close encounters | Amy-Jane Beer

Great Ganilly, Isles of Scilly: We swim through a noodle-soup of seaweeds and see sleeping seals that are camouflaged perfectly until they move

Amy-Jane Beer

22, Aug, 2023 @4:30 AM

‘We seem to have slipped into another time’: a walking holiday on the Scilly Isles

On a self-led tour of this sparkling archipelago, the views and sense of ‘otherness’ prove captivating

Raynor Winn

03, Jun, 2023 @6:00 AM

Scilly islanders head to pub as England settles in for TV Hootenanny

Landlords expect busy evening with residents making most of tier 1 regulations

Amy Walker

31, Dec, 2020 @1:49 PM

Idyllic and empty: a post-lockdown holiday on the Isles of Scilly

The ‘Scilly season’ started late, and nervously, this year but that makes the dazzling white beaches all the more alluring

Isabel Choat

29, Aug, 2020 @6:00 AM

Country diary: life lessons from a fearless song thrush

St Agnes, Isles of Scilly: The children swarm over a rock fortress with giddy pinnacles and unnerving drops

Amy-Jane Beer

25, Jul, 2020 @4:30 AM

Observer picture archive: Harold Wilson, 5 April 1969

Photographer David Newell-Smith joined the Prime Minister on a short Easter holiday on the Isles of Scilly

selected by Greg Whitmore, Observer picture editor

30, Mar, 2019 @5:30 PM

Scilly season: why spring is the best time to visit

Spring arrives early on Scilly and the charm of tiny, sleepy St Martin’s is that there is little-else to do but enjoy its flower-filled moors and coves

Patrick Barkham

04, Feb, 2019 @11:05 AM

Taking flight: an Isles of Scilly family holiday adventure

The new helicopter service is a fun way to arrive on Scilly; the short flight highlighting the contrast between the busy mainland and the remote bliss of the sand-fringed islands

Wyl Menmuir

09, Jun, 2018 @10:00 AM

Scilly games: the islands’ battle of the choppers

Two rival companies are bidding to start a new helicopter service to the Isles of Scilly this spring, the first since 2012

Will Coldwell

15, Feb, 2018 @4:38 PM

Party in the sea – between the Isles of Scilly

The Low Tide Event is the ultimate pop-up, a mini festival held only twice a year when the sea recedes far enough to expose a sandbank linking Tresco and Bryher

Richard Mellor

12, Jun, 2017 @10:00 AM

Helicopter service between Cornwall and Scilly to resume in 2018

New heliport in Penzance will restore service that last flew between islands and mainland in 2012

Steven Morris

02, Feb, 2017 @12:37 PM

Like Heartbeat but less frenetic: Scilly police book set to be big hit

Colin Taylor’s tales of keeping order on the remote islands off Cornwall have made him an international cult figure on social media