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| Eilean Shona |
Listening to a radio programme yesterday, there was a walking programme. The interviewer was talking to Richard Branson's sister Vanessa, who like her brother owns an island but she had brought one in Scotland - Eilean Shona. Intrigued I went visiting this tidal island. So pretty, with about five cottages but so rigged out in House Beautiful the cottages, you wouldn't know you were living in the wilds of Scotland, and of course a price to go with all that classy furniture and paintings. https://eileanshona.com/ Holiday homes for the rich. I had to read through a long Daily Mail sob story from Vanessa. Her husband's infidelity led to a lot of tears, why she didn't leave him early on I will never know, maybe it was the four children they had conceived between them. But in exploring islands, if you are rich, this is a place you might want to visit and you do not have to take a sea journey across the Minch.
Why Neverland? Eilean Shona was where J.Barrie wrote Peter Pan one summer.
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I hope you're on commission. I've never heard of the Branson clan - would that be MacBranson.
ReplyDeleteDoubt it, though might be if I could get a free week in one of the cottages. Richard Branson owns an island in the British Virgin Isles, wonder if he named his companies after that.
DeleteI used to buy LPs by mail order from Richard Branson from an advert in Melody Maker in the early 1970s. He traded under the name of Virgin Records which he called his first record shop because he was a new to the business, "virgin". It was many years before he made enough money to buy an island in the British Virgin isllands.
DeleteA coincidence of course I suppose Rachel. He took the name Virgin for everything he touched
DeleteWas it you who said there are over 6000 islands off the Scottish mainland?
ReplyDeleteYes but not just around Scotland. Many are just large rocks that qualify, others are larger of course.
DeleteYet another pretty house in an appealing position.
ReplyDeleteYes Pat, the 'big' house is very comfortable but price on application! Being a tidal island, there is a causeway but everyone seems to go by boat.
ReplyDeleteI just went to see where the island is - within Loch Moidart south of Arisaig and Mallaig. I doubt that Vanessa Branson's upmarket advertising mentions the midges that blight that area each summertime. She looks disturbingly like her brother.
ReplyDeleteYes the midges, or mozzies that some people call them, are the miserable part of visiting places in Scotland. Yes she must have spent a fortune on her website, why does the water look turquoise I wonder.
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