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Glittering ISLES

Sailing out of the River Clyde as the summer solstice sun dropped slowly behind the mountains, lighting up velvet-green countryside and rocky islands and reflecting off the gently rippling water was breathtaking.

It takes a couple of hours to get from Greenock, near Glasgow, to the Atlantic Ocean and it was gone nine as we glided past the Isle of Bute, Arran and the Mull of Kintyre in the twilight.

The British Isles are astonishingly beautiful, and a two-week cruise on , named by the Duchess of Cambridge in 2013, helps to piece together the cities, coast and countryside to reveal the full

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