EXCLUSIVEBritain - with a VERY big 新たな展開! Inside the British island that's one of the most 孤立するd places on Earth... though you can still get a good Sunday roast there (served with curry sauce)

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We are 深い in the South 大西洋 Ocean, 概略で halfway between Angola and Brazil in one of the most 孤立するd places on Earth.

‘It’s 急ぐ hour,’ says my guide, Aaron, as a 選び出す／独身 car passes by.

Until then, about 1,200 miles from the nearest 本土／大陸, we’d had the remote British 監督するs 領土’s twisty roads almost 完全に to ourselves, with 連続する 見解（をとる）s of chameleon-like landscapes that seem to switch in the blink of an 注目する，もくろむ from rocky plateaux to verdant valleys 十分な of 白人指導者べったりの東洋人 trees and bamboo thickets.

At Painter’s Palette, mineral deposits stain the cactus-strewn landscape the colours of a 傷をいやす／和解させるing bruise.

その上の on, clifftops 申し込む／申し出 広範囲にわたる sea 見解（をとる）s. Waves whip across 黒人／ボイコット-sand beaches.

Splendid 孤立／分離: Sarah Holt travels to St Helena in the South 大西洋, which is 1,200 miles from any 本土／大陸

Most of the time no one else is about. 孤独 is 平易な to find on St Helena, as you might 推定する／予想する on an island that’s about ten miles by five, with a 全住民 of 4,400.

Yet this distant British outpost is about to get new flights from Cape Town in?South Africa, beginning in December (現在／一般に they are only from Johannesburg).

My modern, comfortable hotel, the Mantis, is in the island’s tiny 資本／首都, Jamestown, squeezed into a 狭くする valley.

After a 推薦 from a 地元の, I make the 1.5-mile walk up the hillside to a 警戒／見張り called Munden’s Point to watch a 炎ing sunset.

I’m all on my own, again ― and it’s the same on a 引き上げ（る） to South Point, where the fuzzy felt hills and speckles of gorse remind me of むちの跡s, with more sheep than people.

Even a visit to Napoleon’s tomb, one of the island’s most popular tourist attractions, 証明するs to be （人が）群がる-解放する／自由な.

Sarah stays in St Helena's tiny 資本／首都, Jamestown (pictured), which is 'squeezed into a 狭くする valley'

Pictured:?Diana's 頂点（に達する）, the highest point on the island of Saint Helena at 2,684ft (818m)

St Helena is around 1,200 miles from the nearest 本土／大陸, between Angola and Brazil

The former French emperor was 国外追放するd to St Helena in 1815 after 敗北・負かす at the 戦う／戦い of Waterloo, and he remained here until his death in 1821.

The pathway to his former tomb in Sane Valley leads past 非常に高い Norfolk pine and eucalyptus trees, with bees, crickets and croaking frogs 供給するing the soundtrack.

The tomb is empty, as Napoleon’s 団体／死体 was returned to フラン in 1840.

St Helena is not a lonely place.

In Jamestown, people wave and say hello, いつかs stopping to 雑談（する）. Their accents remind me of 搭乗 school British one minute and Jamaican the next.

It’s called ‘Saint Speak’ ― off is pronounced ‘orf’, for example, and h’s are often omitted from ‘th’ words, turning ‘thing’ into ‘ting’.

?The remote island is about ten miles by five, with a 全住民 of just 4,400

Pictured: The 699 法外な steps of the Grade I 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d Jacobs Ladder, which lead to Jamestown

St Helena is British, but with a 新たな展開. Popping into The 領事館, one of Jamestown’s oldest hotels I get chatting to Lucy and the topic turns to food.

‘Ask anyone what they eat on a Sunday and they’ll say roast,’ she says. So far so 類似の, I think, before she 追加するs: ‘And curry.’ ‘On the same plate?’ I ask.

‘Yes, roast pork, chicken or beef and curry, with carrots and roast potatoes.’

St Helena’s 通貨 is 英貨の／純銀の, but images on the coins 異なる to those 支援する home.

Above is 農園 House, the 永久の 住居 of the 知事 of St Helena

Sarah visit the tomb of Napoleon (pictured), the French emperor who died in 追放する on the island in 1821

Jonathan is the world's oldest land animal at 191 years old?

On the 5p, for example, there’s a picture of St Helena 居住（者） ‘Jonathan the tortoise’, the world’s oldest land animal at 191 years old.

You can see Jonathan on a 小旅行する of 農園 House, a Grade I-名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d building with 280 acres of grounds that’s the 永久の 住居 of the 知事 of St Helena.

Jonathan, all 200kg of him, wanders about on the 前線 lawn.

Waters around St Helena brim with 海洋 life. On an RIB (rigid inflatable boat) trip, more than 400 pantropical イルカs suddenly surround our boat, leaping, 飛び込み and 宙返り／暴落するing by.

Between January and March, 訪問者s can swim with 浮遊生物-eating 鯨 sharks. From June to December tourists can take 鯨-watching trips, too.

Britain with a t wist, for sure. Peace and 静かな (and 孤独) in the middle of an ocean teeming with life.