Anne Hailes: Beatrice Grimshaw, the pioneering Victorian Co Antrim cyclist, journalist, author and lone traveller in the South Pacific
Imagine sailing the South Pacific, disembarking at Tahiti in the pearly light of dawn, alighting onto the docks in Papeete the island capital. The waving palms laden with immense clusters of nuts, bananas with broad green leaves 12ft long, rare stephanotis, tuberose, gardenia and trees with wonderful scarlet blossoms and the smell of coconut in … [Read more…]