Saturday, January 27, 2007
Raasay and the Road to Somewhere
Remote places are hard to get to and the problem is usually the final approaches.
People don’t always like to live in places that can’t be reached by wheeled transport and that is why the north end of the island of Raasay gradually became de-populated (apart from the earlier Highland Clearances). Calum MacLeod lived at the north end of Raasay and after several attempts at persuading his ‘local’ council to build a road, he got down to doing it himself. It took him 10 years with a wheelbarrow, shovel and pick-axe. Of course, the story is a little more involved.
Posted on 27 Jan around 10pm •
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