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Bardsey’s banshees

Gwynedd, UK

Make your world small and simple with a peaceable, wildlife-filled break on this tiny but rich Welsh island – the legendary resting place of 20,000 saints. Even the grey seals take things easy, sunbathing on rocks. Listen to the banshee wailing of Manx shearwaters in their subterranean burrows before the seabirds fly off to forage under the cover of darkness. Marvel at choughs – ragamuffin, aeronaut crows – dancing in the sky

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