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.
我第一次知道這個地區是因為大約20年前，我的父母在莫爾文半島買下了德里明莊園(Drimnin Estate)。我記得第一次去那里的時候：感覺就像我們開車到了一個荒無人煙的地方——但這是一種美好的感覺。就像西部高地的大部分地區一樣，莫爾文是一個美麗的與世隔絕的地方。人們想當然地認為，僅僅因為他們從格拉斯哥開了三個半小時的車過來，這里就是荒涼的無人區，但事實并非如此。人們做著正常的事情——只是去超市和酒吧要花更長的時間。