The MOTHER EARTH NEWS Vacation Tour to Scotland

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Photo 3: The ruins of Iona's Benedictine nunnery.
Photo 3: The ruins of Iona's Benedictine nunnery.
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Photo 1: MOTHER's visitors make short work of
Photo 1: MOTHER's visitors make short work of "destoning" the potato patch.
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Photo 2: Erraid's sturdy structures face the Isle of Mull.
Photo 2: Erraid's sturdy structures face the Isle of Mull.
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Photo 5: Dick oversees the fuel supply.
Photo 5: Dick oversees the fuel supply.
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Photo 4: It would take days to fully explore Erraid's rugged terrain.
Photo 4: It would take days to fully explore Erraid's rugged terrain.
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Photo 6: The glass-enclosed sanctuary offers a view of sacred Iona.
Photo 6: The glass-enclosed sanctuary offers a view of sacred Iona.
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Photo 7: Tour-participant Debbie helps Will clean the fishing nets.
Photo 7: Tour-participant Debbie helps Will clean the fishing nets.
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Photo 8: The Erraid folks, from left to right: (front) Luke and James; (center) Clare and Will; (back) John, Mari, Giles, Loren (with Ona on his shoulders), and Lynda.
Photo 8: The Erraid folks, from left to right: (front) Luke and James; (center) Clare and Will; (back) John, Mari, Giles, Loren (with Ona on his shoulders), and Lynda.

Tales from the MOTHER EARTH NEWS vacation tour To Scotland. (See the photos of the Scotland tour in the image gallery.)

“I invite you to come and share my life . . . and you can’t ask for much more than that.”
(an Erraid resident)

During MOTHER’s Findhorn vacation tour to Scotland last spring, we accepted a gracious invitation, from the folks at the Erraid community, to share their island lifestyle for a week. And, a few days after our arrival, our hosts laughingly admitted that the thought of having 20 American strangers invade their remote, tranquil domain had initially been “quite terrifying”.

Not that Erraid’s residents are unused to visitors . . . after all–in addition to caretaking this island off the northwest coast of Scotland for its Dutch owners–they run a guest program in connection with the Findhorn Foundation. (See “Findhorn: A Bright Light in a Dark World”, MOTHER EARTH NEWS NO. 71, page 32.) But the Erraid community consists of only eight adults and four children . . . and they’d never had a large tour group drop in on them before.

  • Published on Nov 1, 1982
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