{"id":67170,"date":"2017-09-22T22:29:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T15:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-the-kintyre-peninsula-argyll-and-bute-gorgeous-isnt-it\/"},"modified":"2017-09-22T23:07:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T16:07:10","slug":"lets-move-to-the-kintyre-peninsula-argyll-and-bute-gorgeous-isnt-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-the-kintyre-peninsula-argyll-and-bute-gorgeous-isnt-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to the Kintyre peninsula, Argyll and Bute: \u2018Gorgeous, isn\u2019t it?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nPaul McCartney came here to get away from Beatlemania, and it\u2019s still the perfect place to escapeWhat\u2019s going for it? OK, let\u2019s get Paul McCartney and That Song out of the way straight off the bat. Millions of lives were tragically blighted in the 70s by Mull Of Kintyre, number one in the pop charts for about 47 years. Watching the video with wiser, middle-aged eyes, though, I appreciate it anew. Not the dirge. That still plods like a knackered horse. But the place. Look behind Paul and the bagpipers: that\u2019s Saddell Bay, north of the Mull. Gorgeous, isn\u2019t it? No wonder McCartney bought High Park Farm up here in the 60s to escape Beatlemania, grow a beard, learn how to milk sheep and love mud, like some kind of proto-downshifting-hipster. He doesn\u2019t come much any more, but the Kintyre peninsula \u2013 20 miles of heather, oystercatchers, astonishing beaches and a fair few whisky distilleries dangling from Britain by a thread \u2013 still feels the perfect place to escape the universe. All together now, \u201cMuuuuuuull of Kintyre\u2026\u201dThe case against That song will roll around your head for ever. The Mull of Kintyre Test (Google it). It\u2019s a long way from anything but the Isle of Arran. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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