{"id":108755,"date":"2019-07-05T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-thurso-and-dunnet-bay-caithness-life-at-the-edge-of-the-map\/"},"modified":"2019-07-05T23:07:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T16:07:06","slug":"lets-move-to-thurso-and-dunnet-bay-caithness-life-at-the-edge-of-the-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-thurso-and-dunnet-bay-caithness-life-at-the-edge-of-the-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Thurso and Dunnet Bay, Caithness: life at the edge of the map"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe ferocious seas and wide skies conjure up that falling-off-the-world feelingWhat\u2019s going for it? Nobody would think to look for me in Thurso. Well they would now. (Or is that my double bluff?) Passing through the town, once, on the way to Lybster, as you do, the thought occurred to me that this would be an excellent place to disappear to, were I on the run from Villanelle, or when the going got rough, or the end of the world beckoned (or all three). For here is the end of our particular world, the most northerly town \u2013 and, with Dunnet Head, the most northerly point \u2013 in mainland Britain. The ferocious seas and wide skies conjure up that falling-off-the-edge-of-the-map feeling, which always seems to accompany places that really are at the edge of the map (though which is probably psychosomatic). Here, the wild mountains and crofting villages a little to the west of Britain\u2019s northern coast give on to gentler rolling hills of bog, gorse, heather and Neolithic cairns, which end abruptly in sheer cliffs inhabited by gazillions of seabirds. Humans are outnumbered here and, faced with that and the falling-off-the-edge-of-the-map feeling, one can\u2019t help but get a little existential, staring out at the waves and the Orkney Islands and contemplating Brexit, Trump, the climate crisis and the state of the universe. What\u2019s it all about, eh? Surrounded by the surfers and soft white sand of Dunnet Bay, it\u2019s a fine place in which to hunker down awaiting Armageddon.The case against A long way away, obvs, unless you\u2019re from Kirkwall. It appears the memo has gone round Thurso: any colour so long as it\u2019s grey. Come on… get out the Dulux and paint the town red, or turquoise, or lemon yellow. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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