‘Laundering’ your money
For more holiday ideas see pages 42, 43, & 45
industrial village, with 2,500 inhabitants, while bringing worker’s rights and welfare benefits. SEEING IT: The village is still tenanted by around 130 people, while the mill, which closed in 1968, has been restored into a hotel and tourist attraction. See newlanark.org.
Far out St Kilda, Scotland
The last residents on St Kilda left in 1930, after life there became impossible. The remote island in the North Atlantic was evacuated, with its community of 36 people unable to put up with the harsh winter and sustain their traditional livelihoods.
It was one of the planet’s toughest places to exist, but people had been living there for
4,000 years and the abandoned cottages remain.
The island is wrapped in mist and surrounded by towering sea cliffs – difficult conditions for boats but ideal ones for rare and endangered sea birds.
A NEW company is set to offer sanitised foreign cash. Clean Currency will provide brand new, sterile banknotes in both euros and in dollars. Staff wearing PPE and working in a sterile area will handcount the fresh currency
More than a million live here. St Kilda is run by the National Trust for Scotland, see nts.org.uk.
SEEING IT: Several boat operators offer trips to St Kilda, either from Skye or the Outer Hebrides, but going ashore is very much dependent on weather. See gotostkilda.co.uk.
What’s up, dock Liverpool
Designating this maritime city as a World Heritage site is testament to its importance in building the British Empire and in the migrations of the 18th and 19th centuries that populated the US.
Trade enriched generations of merchants and shipowners, which is why there are so many listed buildings lined up along the water’s edge. and create bundles of 250 notes, which are made up of five and ten denominations. They will then be placed in tamper-proof packaging and sealed for transportation. For more details see cleancurrency.co.uk.
SEEING IT: After decades of decay, the Royal Albert Dock is a place of culture and relaxation, with Tate Liverpool, the Beatles Museum and the Slavery Museum. See albertdock.com.
Big pit Blaenavon, Wales
Turning coal and ore mines into tourist attractions is no easy task. Blaenavon’s mines, quarries, primitive railway system and furnaces are just that, demonstrating how South Wales played a key part in keeping the wheels of industrialisation turning. You can go underground, ride the railway, see the living conditions of miners, and visit the Big Pit National Coal Museum.
SEEING IT: Blaenavon is set in hills covered in heather, with nearby pretty towns of Crickhowell and Abergavenny. See visitblaenavon.co.uk.