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Driftwood said:
It's a fair bit of the road too....This is as far as I went, with the loose gravel road

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The last piece of road up the island is chained off 4 miles before Barnhill and becomes considerably rougher. Its a nice walk assuming the midges aren't about. I like the alteration to the sign!

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Driftwood said:
Did you go all the way up to Corryvreckan? I would like to see that
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I did about 20 years ago and all I could see was a mass of broken water I think you have to catch it at the right time for the full effect.

When I got back to the car that time I headed to Craighouse in the dark and caught up with a raincoated figure on an old BSA despatch riders bike. I followed him for a while and then he pulled over and waved me past. Got back to my digs and asked my host who owned the BSA? He said nobody owned one on the island and out of interest he rang the ferry man at Port Askaig if anything like that had crossed over recently and got a no. Just then his friend called and hearing the conversation said there was the remains of an old BSA on the beach near Barnhill which had belonged to Orwell up until his final departure! Had I seen a ghost?
 
Under no circumstances, look at the following picture - if you are easily upset or squeamish - Kabul - mid 90's - Hazara woman caught in the cross fire between the Muj factions fighting in northern Kabul. I nearly took one too - I remember it clearly. They - the Muj groups - mostly drug dealers, gangsters and war lords - were so occupied with shooting each other - they took their eye off the ball and didn't see the Taliban coming. That was also true of most journalists at the time - time to run away! Either get on one of the last Red Cross flights out or bolt north to the Uzbek border. The latter solution would bring its own problems - thankfully - I was a part of the former. So - 30 or so, years later - the same thing is about to happen. The Taliban are rolling across the country - unfettered - and unopposed. A heavily armed and medieval version of Islam. Obviously - in a modern sense - it started with the Soviets - then the west - did anybody read any history books? Evidently not. Even Alexander the Great gave the place a wide berth. I'd love to go back there - I've seen some impressive shit in my time - but the country really puts the hooks into you - pity the poor Afghans - why should you care? - As John Donne said - 'No man is an island.' Their pain is our pain - or ought to be - billionaires in space? - yes - leave them there. You can't breathe money. Yours - I.

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