Thanks so much for taking the time to post a comment on my blog. I read your words first with keen interest, and then with amazement when you mentioned having known Iain. That really made my day Isolation Shepherd is one of my favourite books and I regularly recommend it to friends and family.

I often wondered where Iain and his family went after the flooding of Strathmore, very interesting to here that he settled around Inverness. I can’t help wondering if it ever felt like home in the same way as high in the glen.

Thanks so much for your comment,
Mike

I spend a fair part of summer running and walking round the Strathmore area. Love it, it’s a special place. make sure you get the chance to spend some time there.

all the best Cath

What can I say? Thanks very much for taking the time to write such a nice message, with many thoughts and feelings that echo my own and I’m sure those of a lot of folks who read the book. It’s always nice to hear from someone new who’s stumbled across the blog via one of my alternative posts.

The north and west really are magical places. I’m yet to set foot in the hills of Iain Thomson, but I’ve been dreaming about it for quite a while now. They are some of the most remote and beautiful hills and mountains to be found in the highlands. I have the OS map of the region stuck up on my wall to remind me that there are still some large tracts of land in this country without any roads.

Have a nice day, and thanks again for visiting.

What am I, a Danish lass, doing here on a fishing website!! Well, I am reading the wonderful book “Isolation shepherd” at the moment, and happened to find your comment here about the very same book.

I can only agree with you in your words about home… home doesn’t necessarily have to be a physical place, but can just as well be a sense or a feeling.
To me Scotland and especially the West Highlands and Skye are “home-places”… but when not being able to travel there, I can move into my other home, which is the feeling of Scotland that I always carry with me in my heart and soul.

I had 14 glorious days in Scotland this September and travelled around in the North West region and Skye. I found the book in a small bookstore in Durness, but did’nt get to read it until yesterday at my nightshift at work.
I haven’t put it down (almost) since then, and it is one of the best books I have ever read. I can picture the scenery and everything in my imagination, and it feels as if I am there myself in person.

I could easily see myself living such a life… at times very hard and probably always simple, but having this sense and feeling of belonging to because I would be able to feel at one with the mighty nature.

I can move into a book if it is interesting enough… Isolation Shepherd has become a home to me for as long as I am reading it.

Just a few words and thoughts from Denmark.

Karen Elise Sørensen.