Sea of tranquillity
anctuary and solitude. Paul McCartney was seeking both in the mid-’60s, at the height of Beatlemania, when he bought High Park Farm on the Kintyre Peninsula. Its “end of world remoteness”, in his words, provided the isolation he craved after becoming one of the planet’s most recognisable faces. We can hardly relate to that, but we can understand that feeling of wanting to get away from modern life, even if just for a moment. Those same qualities are what make the stunning locations in this magazine special, even if, as p12 and the Lake District shows, a dose of mayhem once in a while is healthy, too.