My second question concerns broadband.
I've found a considerable amount of information and opinion online concerning broadband services in the Western Isles. However, much it is negative. Though, I have no idea how much of that is exaggerated.
I do not need broadband for work if I move there. However, I do need it for communicating with friends and family back on the "mainland", and around the world. I use Skype in particular; but also the BBC iPlayer and several other online multimedia services.
I require reliability, and a sufficient speed of connection, above all. Is this difficult or impossible to achieve in the Western Isles?
Sunday, 30 October 2011
Saturday, 29 October 2011
Western Isles or Outer Hebrides?
My first question ... which of these should I use? Which is appropriate and agreeable?
Hello ... world?
My name is Peter. I live in Coventry, in Warwickshire. It's not the nicest place in the world; roads, traffic, pollution, the blank faces of people in the streets. An eternal greyness hangs over the city, sucking the life and colour from the populance.
I travel and escape; travel to escape.
I've been thinking for a while of moving, now I'm coming up to early retirement. After extensively walking, trekking, hiking across Wales, Ireland and Scotland, the area I am considering most seriously is the Western Isles - known also as the Outer Hebrides.
I've visited there on several occasions now. Lewis, Barra, and on my most recent visit, Berneray; a most enigmatic island in the Sound of Harris. There, in particular, I met and heard stories of the most wonderful, kind and generous people; but also of some less desirable people. It hasn't left my mind, and I will write - type? - more on this forthwith.
The aim of this blog is to explore the possibility of moving to the Western Isles. A permanent relocation, not a holiday home, of which I do not approve. A house should be lived in, a home, not made an empty shell for the convenience of the wealthy and the dispossession of the poor.
I welcome comments. However, after reviewing the somewhat ... excitable and occasionally dark nature of other forums and blogs concerned with the Western Isles, I wish to make it clear that malicious or abusive comments will not appear. It's my blog, and if you don't like this policy, then as the youngsters say: jog on.
Onwards...
I travel and escape; travel to escape.
I've been thinking for a while of moving, now I'm coming up to early retirement. After extensively walking, trekking, hiking across Wales, Ireland and Scotland, the area I am considering most seriously is the Western Isles - known also as the Outer Hebrides.
I've visited there on several occasions now. Lewis, Barra, and on my most recent visit, Berneray; a most enigmatic island in the Sound of Harris. There, in particular, I met and heard stories of the most wonderful, kind and generous people; but also of some less desirable people. It hasn't left my mind, and I will write - type? - more on this forthwith.
The aim of this blog is to explore the possibility of moving to the Western Isles. A permanent relocation, not a holiday home, of which I do not approve. A house should be lived in, a home, not made an empty shell for the convenience of the wealthy and the dispossession of the poor.
I welcome comments. However, after reviewing the somewhat ... excitable and occasionally dark nature of other forums and blogs concerned with the Western Isles, I wish to make it clear that malicious or abusive comments will not appear. It's my blog, and if you don't like this policy, then as the youngsters say: jog on.
Onwards...
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