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    PLACES APART

    Aug 14, 2020 6 minutes
    Photography: Helen and Paul Webster
    “Islands are places apart, awey from the commonplace, places where we leave out normal lives behind.”

    THERE’S AN INDEFINABLE magic about islands. Even otherwise ordinary places are transformed by a feeling of otherness when you have to cross the sea to reach them. Islands are places apart, away from the commonplace, places where we leave our normal lives behind. Just think of the words we commonly associate with them: island escape, island adventure, treasure island, island paradise.

    Nowhere is this more true than with the islands of Scotland. They possess some of the finest mountain and maritime landscapes in Europe. The variety in such a compact area is immense, from the fertile fields of Orkney to the barren peatlands of Lewis, and from the sandy beaches of Tiree to the Cuillin of Skye, the most Alpine mountains in Britain. There are endless layers of human history to uncover too: the remarkably preserved Stone Age settlements of Skara Brae or Jarlshof, the long era of Norse rule, the richness of Gaelic culture, the human

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