Starting Somewhere, Sometime

There's nothing like a well-rounded date to start on anything - so 11 May 2011 is apt, for it indicates two sets of straight lines within the repeated number eleven. They symbolically head out and back to the Scottish islands, which I have found absorbing for some 25 years, on which I have written for eight years and about which I have edited this magazine, owned by me for almost 18 months. Here's to the start of a journey ... in this case from Barra Airport.

Scottish Islands Explorer - started on 2 January 2000 - a real millennium magazine