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Jura Lodge, Scotland

You have to really want to get to the Isle of Jura in the Inner Hebrides on the west coast of Scotland. Even the ever-optimistic PR people admit that “there is no quick way to get there.” The fastest way from London takes up a day and involves two planes and a ferry. George Orwell, who wrote 1984 here, described Jura fittingly as “an extremely un-getable place.”

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