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local artist Richard Pearce’s Golden Eagle Studio gallery can be visited with advance notice. Stay: There’s a campsite and two guesthouses, but the best option is Hell Bay. Decked out in the same style as Tresco’s self-catering options – tongue-and-groove walls and nautical-themed paintings – it has original Barbara Hepworths on the walls and a fine-dining restaurant. The hotel’s minimum age has risen to 14 this year, and a yoga studio and expanded garden now accompany the pool.


ST AGNES & ST MARTIN’S St Agnes’s population of just 85 guarantees a wonderfully soporific air. Skulking above its quay is the tempting Turks Head pub, while flowery lanes lead to farms. Secluded St Martin’s is similarly peaceful, and revered for its fine shores. See: St Agnes’s teeny Troytown


Farm sells delicious, unusually flavoured ice cream – the rose geranium is recommended. Clients can also walk to the stone stacks at Wingletang Down or across a tidal sandbar to empty isle Gugh. Visitors to St Martin’s should make for sandy beaches such as


Great Bay or Par – off which Scilly Seal Snorkelling runs excursions. Stay: At Troytown Farm, an old croft, a cottage and a flat in the main farmhouse can be rented by self-caterers. On St Martin’s, the plush Karma St Martin’s is a luxury beachside resort.


TW BOOK IT


Premier Holidays has a seven-night island-hopping tour combining St Mary’s, St Martin’s and Tresco (staying at the New Inn), from £979 per person, including return ferries from Penzance, with transfers payable locally. trade.premierholidays. co.uk


Prestige Holidays has a seven-night package, staying at Hell Bay in Bryher and Tresco’s self-catering Sea Garden Cottages, from £1,599 per person, including return ferries from Penzance. Transfers payable locally. ukprestigeholidays.co.uk


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