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You can see it from almost everywhere in Hobart. That great grey-blue wall of rock rising behind the city, often with its top lost in cloud. kunanyi / Mount Wellington is the backdrop to the whole town, and the first thing most visitors decide is that they have to get up there. I am Fuad, The post kunanyi / Mount Wellington from Hobart: What the Summit Is Really Like appeared first on A Walk in the World.

Some places you remember for a single view. Bruny gave me a dozen. Sea cliffs dropping straight into the Southern Ocean, a thin ribbon of sand with ocean on both sides, an empty beach curving away into low cloud, and a lighthouse balcony with the whole wild south of the island laid out beneath it. The post Bruny Island Day Trip From Hobart: A Tasmanian Foodie Escape Worth the Ferry appeared first on A Walk in the World.

Brow Head, near Crookhaven in West Cork, is the true southernmost point of mainland Ireland, not Mizen Head, as almost every guide assumes. It’s a wild, unmarked headland reached by a short walk from the coast road, with sweeping Atlantic cliff views, a ruined Napoleonic signal tower, and a remarkable connection to Marconi’s earliest wireless The post Brow Head: The Southernmost Point of Ireland That Almost Nobody Visits appeared first on A Walk in the World.

A Mizen Peninsula day trip from Cork is one of the best ways to experience West Cork, taking in dramatic Atlantic cliffs, a medieval castle ruin, a hidden beach, Ireland’s true southernmost point, and the famous Mizen Head bridge, all in a single day. This guide lays out the full route from Cork city, with The post The Mizen Peninsula Day Trip From Cork: Five Stops, One Perfect Day appeared first on A Walk in the World.

Mizen Head is the most south-westerly point of mainland Ireland and one of the most dramatic places to visit on the entire Wild Atlantic Way. The big draws are the 1910 arch bridge spanning a churning Atlantic gorge, the cliff walk above 100-metre drops, and the old signal station, now a museum, perched at the The post Mizen Head: Crossing the Bridge at the Edge of Ireland appeared first on A Walk in the World.