Staffa

The investigation is related to a fire which broke out on an industrial estate on Staffa Road in Leyton in March, which the prosecution said was started using an accelerant such as petrol.

Boat excursions to Staffa, a nearby island, offer the geological marvel Fingal’s Cave and puffin sightings.

Those more interested in nature than history will enjoy trips to the wildly scenic Isle of Staffa, with the famous basalt columns of Fingal’s Cave — and, in summer, a colony of puffins.

Turner seems to open up new avenues of perception, plunging viewers into clouds of iridescent mist, sometimes mingled with black smoke from a passing steamship, as in “Staffa, Fingal’s Cave.”

Little wonder that Mendelssohn himself, on a trip to Mull, Iona and Staffa, was inspired to write the Hebrides Overture.