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Scillies

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Scillies [ˈsɪlɪz] NPL Scilly Isles [ˈsɪlɪˌaɪlz] NPLIslas fpl Sorlinga
Scillies, Scilly Isles
plScillyinseln pl


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Whilst disembarking on your next visit to the Scillies, if you should accidentally bump into a person in uniform tapping the ground with a white stick and cursing in a strange foreign tongue, you have just met their new air traffic controller.
The Scillies are as far removed from that lifestyle as it is possible to get.
Don't expect meals on your De Havilland Twin Otter Skybus - there's barely time to watch the Cornish coast disappear before the Scillies twinkle below.
 
 
 
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