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...
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