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.
The only ways to get here are to take the sleeper train to Fort William, or take the train to Glasgow and then drive. While both options are long, in each case you travel through these incredibly dramatic, mountainous landscapes. The sleeper train goes just past Ben Nevis, while the drive from Glasgow takes you through Glencoe.
