I recently designed a little logo for Sarah Paramor Baskets. Sarah and her husband Aron moved to Applecross in Highland, population of 240(!) 3 years ago from London. Now they live in cute house surrounded by ducks, geese, chickens and 2 dogs Onion and Compost. Aron has set up new business Applecross Ices which recently swept 8 awards in highland ice-cream show! Sarah has started to learn basket weaving in her spare time using local willow. They kindly invited us this Easter so we drove all the way over 2 days going over narrow rocky cliff edges to Applecross. Everything about the life there were extreme polar opposite of London one. We've enjoyed fresh local seafood, large open beaches, collecting freshly laid eggs in the morning, mountain walks, breathing in pure air, coming across with sheep everywhere.
I thought gaining new skills to sustain living and to be able to trade and offer what you can do to your community is such satisfying thing! I'm not quite ready to give up waking up in the morning and popping in to local shop for croissants and a cup of latte. But this holiday really opened my eyes to see there are wonderful ways of living outside of London worth considering for the future.
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