Kinuachdrach Harbour

Kinuachdrach Harbour, a lush bay on the northeast tip of Jura, is a lovely quiet spot. It is a 20 minute walk south to Barnhill which is where George Orwell lived when he was writing Nineteen Eighty Four (and which is now a holiday rental property). He surely can't have had the idea of the book here, about as far away as one can get from civilisation in the UK and still have a roof over your head - it is the last but one house on the island. Mind you, Barnhill is a fairly substantial farmhouse, presumably belonging at the time to some fairly well-healed friend of Orwell's. There is no tarmac road so far north, just a cart track suitable for Landrovers and the like.