I’d like to quote a paragraph from the travel report: It’s interesting to read that almost nothing has changed in the last six miles or so and only little has changed in the journey from Kintyre to Jura. On the website orwell today you can find a travel report of a couple who made a pilgrimage to Barnhill in August 2004. From there it’s a beautiful walk into solitude and remoteness, following the same track George Orwell had followed in 1945 for the first time. Barnhill still is a very remote place, cars are not allowed and to get there you have to leave your vehicle four miles before Barnhill on the side of the road, or better track. The fact that Orwell wrote his book in Barnhill, situated in the north of Jura, is a reason for some to undertake a pilgrimage to the Isle of Jura and follow into the footsteps of this famous writer. This book gives the reader a completely different and controversial view of how a society can work, or should I say can’t! The story is told from the point of view of Winston Smith, a functionary of the Ministry of Truth whose work involved the “correction” of all records each time the “Big Brother” decided that the truth had changed.” I have read the book and found it fascinating but scary at the same time and I think anyone should read it. Freedom was only total obedience to the Party, and love an alien concept, unless it was love for the Party. In his book Orwell tried to “depict a totalitarian state, where the truth didn’t exist as such, but was merely what the “Big Brother” said it was. Jura is also known as the island where George Orwell lived from 1946-48 while writing his novel 1984. Jura is not only visited by people for the obvious reasons such as its overwhelming nature, the wildlife, or the fact that the island has three famous mountains called the Paps of Jura which are almost a destination in its own right.
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