I'd kind of vaguely expected it to be like travelling to the Shetlands - but in fact, it's much harder. There is one ferry a day from the mainland, in the summer. You can fly from Lands End - if it isn't foggy, which causes the flights to be cancelled (on the ferry on the way home, we met a bloke who had planned to fly out for four days: flight cancellations meant that he arrived three days late, and had to take the ferry home.)

There's no roll-on, roll-off - cars are winched on and off the Scillonian, for those people who live there - and it costs forty quid as a foot passenger!

I'm kind of surprised that they get as many tourists as they do...