By 'eck! It's Yorkshire's Robinson Crusoe: Brit Who Bought A Cut-Price Island In The Seychelles 50 Years Ago... And Still Lives In Blissful Solitude With 120 Giant Tortoises -- Daily Mail
* Sprightly 86-year-old bought Seychelles island for £8,000 in 1962
* When he bought Moyenne, it was overgrown with scrub so dense that coconuts could not fall to the ground
Surely it’s what many of us dream about while trudging into the office during another April downpour.
Why not escape the rat race and the grey skies to live on a sunny tropical island?
Brendon Grimshaw has done just that. In 1962, the Yorkshireman bought Moyenne - a small island just half a mile wide - in the Seychelles for the princely sum of £8,000, and he has been living there ever since.
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My Comment: He looks good for a 86 year old man. Hmmmm .... must be the lifestyle that he chose.
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