CHUCKING IT ALL. HOW DOWNSHIFTING TO A WINDSWEPT SCOTTISH ISLAND DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO IMPROV - Tecno-Libro

Named one of the twelve best travel books of 2009 by Worldhum, Chucking it All exposes the gritty reality behind all those twee bestsellers which extol the joys of sunny rural idylls. . With its remorseless true-life account of downshifting to a remote Scottish island, Chucking it All uncovers the frightening realities of relocating to a magical island lost in the mists of time as you follow the warts-and-all adventures of urban misanthrope, Max Scratchmann, as he valiantly tries to forge a new life in the windswept Orkney islands, and grumbles his way through unending winters with eighteen-hour nights, nocturnal visits from drunken farmers and booty calls from desperate divorcees. . From struggling to fit in as a temporary postman in a wilderness where houses don t display numbers or names, to attending drunken country ceilidhs with the island singles club, or finding himself up to the neck in local politics while performing