Puff your way up 530 steps to the top of St. Paul's Cathedral for a heavenly view of London.

Let the train take the strain while you admire the views on the Ffestiniog Railway.

Get your Gaelic up to scratch with a course on the Isle of Skye.

Tube ride a Cornish wave in Newquay, a the capital of English surfing.

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