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SIMPLY SCILLY

Visiting England’s Charming Isles of Scilly

By Sharon Whitley Larsen
’ve been in the Known as “Dungeon Dave,” his first visit The unique, walled Star Castle, built in 1593
to Scilly (pronounced “silly,” which means
dungeon for “blessed” or “holy”) was for his sister’s wed- for Scilly’s defense during Queen Elizabeth I’s
reign, has been a hotel since 1933.
24 years! ” ding in 1986. Barely three miles long and two miles wide,

Thus proclaimed Briton Dave Hailing from Liverpool, Huddy recalls spot- St. Mary’s is the largest of five inhabited is-
ting the island’s beauty as he arrived by ferry
lands (with a total pop. about 2,000) among
“I Huddy, explaining to me how he “for just the weekend.” Now he bartends at more than 200 remote islands and rocks
came to live on tiny St. Mary’s (pop. 1,600) the popular, 400-year-old Star Castle hotel’s southwest of the English mainland, 28 miles
on the Isles of Scilly, inhabited since the Dungeon Bar, which once housed prisoners. off the coast of Land’s End.

Stone Age.

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