The perfect place to stay if you REALLY want to get away from it all: Inside a cosy bunkhouse on the remote Scottish island of Canna (全住民 - 20)

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The only time a （人が）群がる gathers on the 小島 of Canna is for the arrival of the フェリー（で運ぶ） five times a week in summer.

訪問者s bustle around the pier looking for their hosts like 避難民s in 戦時.

But once everyone is matched up and has gone on their way, peace 速く descends ― not that it ever really leaves this Hebridean hideaway.

At nearly five square miles in length, Canna is one of the Small 小島s, reached by the フェリー（で運ぶ） from Mallaig, an hour’s 運動 from Fort William.

The 全住民 of Canna 頂点（に達する）d at 436 in 1821 but, に引き続いて the Highland 通関手続き／一掃s in 1860, numbers dipped to 127. It now stands at around 20.

Paul Kirkwood visits Scotland's 小島 of Canna and stays at the remote bunkhouse pictured here

The only time a （人が）群がる gathers on the 小島 of Canna is for the arrival of the フェリー（で運ぶ） five times a week in summer, Paul 令状s

Paul 明らかにする／漏らすs: 'We soon got to know the island’s 訪問者s: a cyclist from New Zealand, a man who we’d earlier spotted （軍の）野営地，陣営ing 単独の on Sanday’s white sands, three students staying with a friend, and an intrepid young family of four who arrived by bike, kids in child seats and luggage on their 支援するs'?

Gareth Cole, chef at Cafe Canna, （機の）カム here with his wife in 2018 having 以前 worked in IT in London.

‘We’d only 以前 visited Canna on the 途中滞在 フェリー（で運ぶ）.

'We 事実上 had two hours on the island to decide if this is what we 手配中の，お尋ね者 to do and where we 手配中の，お尋ね者 to live.

'Thankfully we went for it and it has been 絶対 amazing.’

Isebail MacKinnon 作品 on the island’s only farm and runs the campsite and bunkhouse.

As part of the 小島 of Canna Community 開発 信用, she also manages the community shop and is 伴う／関わるd with the renewable energy 事業／計画（する）.

The 全住民 of Canna 頂点（に達する）d at 436 in 1821 but, に引き続いて the Highland 通関手続き／一掃s in 1860, numbers dipped to 127. It now stands at around 20. Pictured: The island's Sanday 橋（渡しをする）

The island (pict ured) is owned by the 国家の 信用 for Scotland, to which it was given in 1981 by the then laird, John Lorne Campbell, a Gaelic scholar and nature lover 決定するd to 保存する the island’s 生態学 and traditions, says Paul

At nearly five square miles in length, Canna is one of the Small 小島s.?It's reached by フェリー（で運ぶ） from Mallaig, an hour’s 運動 from Fort William?

Isebail MacKinnon 作品 on the island’s only farm and runs the campsite (pictured) and bunkhouse where Paul stayed

Her family is from Canna and she returned there in 2016 after working in London and Africa.

‘I can see a lot of similarities between living off the west coast of Scotland and living in Ghana and Uganda, as 兵たん業務 in both places are a bit challenging,’ she says.

My wife and I stayed at the bunkhouse, a 中央の-18th-century former bothy, perched alone at the foot of a basalt cliff with just a windswept sycamore tree for company.

Accommodation is simple, with two bunk beds and a separate にわか雨 and 洗面所 封鎖する, but the 見解（をとる）s over Canna and the 小島s of Sanday and Rum more than 補償する.

…を伴ってd by her dog, Isebail brought a breakfast basket each morning. In the evening we dined at the cafe, a 15-minute walk across fields.

The menu features 地元の lobster and steak from the farm’s Belted Galloway cattle.

The bunkhouse accommodation is simple, says Paul, 'with two bunk beds and a separate にわか雨 and 洗面所 封鎖する, but the 見解（をとる）s over Canna and the 小島s of Sanday and Rum more than 補償する'

In the evening Paul dined at the cafe, a 15-minute walk across fields. Above - the bunkhouse picnic （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する

The birds 供給する the only commotion you’re likely to 遭遇（する） on this island, whose emptiness is the essence of its 控訴，上告, says Paul

Tourists take in the 見解（をとる） on Canna's 劇の coastline

The two-bed 寄宿舎 in the Canna bunkhouse costs from £40

One night we were joined by a group who arrived by rigid inflatable boats from ヨットs 錨，総合司会者d in the harbour.

We soon got to know the island’s 訪問者s: a cyclist from New Zealand, a man who we’d earlier spotted （軍の）野営地，陣営ing 単独の on Sanday’s white sands, three students staying with a friend, and an intrepid young family of four who arrived by bike, kids in child seats and luggage on their 支援するs.

The island is owned by the 国家の 信用 for Scotland, to which it was given in 1981 by the then laird, John Lorne Campbell, a Gaelic scholar and nature lover 決定するd to 保存する the island’s 生態学 and traditions.

His former home, Canna House, is 存在 回復するd and a 訪問者 施設 is under construction.

廃虚d Coroghan 城 sits at one end of the beach 近づく the pier on a rocky outcrop that looks like a sandcastle.

You can 引き上げ（る） up Compass Hill with its 見解（をとる）s over the island, or out to the lighthouse and 支援する, past sea stacks which teem with puffins in spring.

The birds 供給する the only commotion you’re likely to 遭遇（する） on this island, whose emptiness is the essence of its 控訴，上告.