California dreaming

Your article on Loch Lomond (Stay at Home, October 2022) was a reminder of the beauty on our doorstep here in the UK. I studied Travel and Tourism in Glasgow, where I grew up, and dreamed of the sights I’d experience overseas. I worked in Switzerland and the Maldives before backpacking around Australia, and high on my bucket list has always been the giant redwood trees in California. Little did I know that less than two hours’ drive from hometown, at Benmore Botanical Garden, are the redwoods I’ve longed to see. LYNNE MCCONWAY