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#NatGeoTravelStories // Follow our account this weekend as @JimRichardsonNG shares 12 travel recommendations from his Islands of Obsession photo series taken in Scotland's Hebrides and Orkney Islands.

#9 Visit the Laird of Muck -
The Isle of Muck is a Small Isle. I mean by that, that it is not only small (two and half miles long, scarcely one mile wide) but also that it is one of the Small Isles which one gets to by ferry from the port of Mallaig. This is not so easy because ferries like these don’t run every day, and must shuttle their time between these several islands, only docking at each one three for four times a week. So maybe you’ll get there on Tuesday, but maybe the return ferry won’t make it on Thursday and you’ll be stuck there till Saturday, or the next Tuesday. Your reward for such forbearance is that you’ll not only visit one of the nicest wee isles to be found, but one, also, that has it’s own laird, a living and breathing medieval lord. This would be Lawrence MacEwan, sharp-eyed master of his island realm (that’s Lawrence atop Muck, Eigg is in the background) a warm and gentle farmer and patron to the island's 39 residents. To see island life through his eyes is to come to an understanding of feudalism that is positively heartwarming. With a lord like Lawrence, who needs elections? You can stay in the Gallanach Lodge (run by Lawrence’s daughter Mary) but you’ll not get much cell phone service. You’ll probably waste a day waving your phone around in the air, trying to keep up with the outside world, to find not only that you can’t, but you don’t want to. Island time will take over, you’ll throw the phone in the bay with the lobsters and you’ll be happy. Long live the Laird of Muck. islandobsession #scotland

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