Iona

Watch P&O’s biggest-ever cruise ship, Iona, being built in seconds thanks to timelapse footage

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Watch P&O’s biggest-ever cruise ship being assembled in mere seconds thanks to mesmerising timelapse footage Speeded-up footage shows the vessel, called Iona, coming together over two years The huge ship weighs 185,000 tonnes, measures 1,131ft in length and boasts a total of 17 guest decks  P&O says the ship will have ‘a cool gin distillery, exciting … Read more

Ten of the best majestic Scottish islands from Iona and Islay to South Uist   

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The writer Lawrence Durrell called it ‘islomania’, a condition he described as ‘an affliction of the spirit’ that led sufferers to find islands ‘irresistible’.  He caught the bug on Corfu, but I defy you not to turn into an islomaniac after a visit to one of the many beautiful islands off the coast of Scotland. … Read more