How about ensconcing yourself in a lighthouse? Even better, how about the extreme northeast part of Britain past the wonderfully named village of John O’Groats? There’s Duncansby Head lighthouse.
Duncansby Head
For a century and a half, Robert Stevenson and his descendants built nearly every lighthouse in Scotland. Visits with his father to remote lighthouses inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write books like Kidnapped and Treasure Island.
This light was built in 1924 by David Stevenson. On the eve of the Norway invasion, a German bomber machine gunned this lighthouse. It looks more peaceful today.
Duncansby Lighthouse