I first got to know this area because my parents bought the Drimnin Estate, on the Morvern Peninsula, about 20 years ago. I remember going there for the first time: it felt as if we were driving into the middle of nowhere – but in a good way. Like much of the West Highlands, which is a vast area, Morvern is beautifully isolated. People assume, just because they’ve driven for three-and-a-half hours from Glasgow, that life doesn’t exist here, but it does. People do normal things – it just takes them longer to get to the supermarket and the pub.
我第一次知道这个地区是因为大约20年前，我的父母在莫尔文半岛买下了德里明庄园(Drimnin Estate)。我记得第一次去那里的时候：感觉就像我们开车到了一个荒无人烟的地方——但这是一种美好的感觉。就像西部高地的大部分地区一样，莫尔文是一个美丽的与世隔绝的地方。人们想当然地认为，仅仅因为他们从格拉斯哥开了三个半小时的车过来，这里就是荒凉的无人区，但事实并非如此。人们做着正常的事情——只是去超市和酒吧要花更长的时间。