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Burnt out? Eight locations to help you get away from it all
Move to a lighthouse on a remote Australian island

Taking care of a remote lighthouse… totally alone
Jesse Siebler and Taylor Stevens tend to a lighthouse on the isolated Maatsuyker Island
Go surfing beneath the Northern Lights in Iceland

Catching waves under Iceland’s Northern Lights
Heidar Logi is one of a small group of surfers who braves the freezing waters of Iceland
Take care of a flock of sheep

The shepherdess who has 1,000 sheep and nine children
Amanda Owen's mother wanted her to be a model, but she preferred sheep, cows and children
Go on foot to discover nature's lost words

Collecting lost words from around the world
British writer Robert Macfarlane travels the world on foot to gather disappearing words
Lose yourself in an imaginary forest

Losing and finding yourself in a forest
Siouxzi Connor looks at the connection between identity and nature in her new book
Hunt out places that have been abandoned

Photographing the abandoned
Roman Robroek finds and photographs the abandoned and forgotten places of Europe.
Go cloud watching in Ireland

I run Ireland's cloud-spotting society
Cloud-lover Hans Wieland is always looking to the skies
Travel back in time to the Wales of the 1950s

Dylan Thomas's Wales
Vintage photos of some of the haunts enjoyed by the celebrated Welsh poet