
Six keepers' cottages, one rule: the lamp stays on.
The keeper's cottage has two rooms and a view that turns every forty seconds.
Written by
Owen Marsh
Section
Travel
Reading time
8 min
The keeper’s cottage has two rooms and a view that turns every forty seconds.
How it started
Every travel story in this magazine starts the same way: somebody says “you have to see this”, and we go. This one began on a hot evening in July, with a full tank and no plan.
By the second day we had a notebook full of names, three rolls of film and the strong feeling that the real story was a little further down the road.
What we found
The people we met were generous with their time and suspicious of our questions, in that order. They told us where to stand, when to look and which coffee to avoid.
“Lighthouses you can sleep in” is what we brought back. Read it slowly. It was written that way.


