John Lennon’s love of Durness
Written by Karen Bryan
Evidently John Lennon was a great fan of Durness in Sutherland in the Highlands of Scotland. He spend childhood holidays there and then returned with his wife Yoko Ono and their children in 1969. These celebrity visits are being used to promote the area to tourists.
Would you be more likely to visit an area because of celebrity connections? I don’t think that it would directly infuence me much. However I suppose that this sort of thing can trigger more publicity in an area and if you see photos or film footage of an area then it could attract you to visit.
[...] Tomorrow I’m to the Scottish Highlands for a weeks holiday. The itinerary is an early start tomorrow to avoid the delays caused by the weekend road works on the Forth Road Bridge, overnight in Inverness. On Sunday drive head north from Inverness and then west along the north coast of Scotland to an overnight stop in Durness. I’ve not visited the area around Durness before and I wasn’t influenced by the fact that John Lennon had been there. On Monday it’s south down the west coast to Ullapool for 4 nights. On Friday drive to Oban to stay overnight and back home on the Saturday. [...]