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TRAVELS WITH TOM

St Columba’s 1,500th birthday was another celebration dampened by Covid last year, however, you can still visit his island monastery on the magical Isle of Iona.

As Samuel Johnson put it in 1773: “That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of

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