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ESCAPE FROM LA, TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE IN THE WORLD



Back home in LA, Jessica Fox worked for NASA by day, and for a film-maker by night.

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But, when the elite seek out those ideal places to live, they don't choose LA.

They choose places like Wigtown.

Jessica Fox swapped California sunshine for Wigtown.

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Near Wigtown

Jessica describes the Wigtown area:

"We walked in silence through a soft mist. 

"As we turned a corner, a view unfurled of silvery marshland. 

"'This is the most beautiful place in the world,' I gasped."

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Jessica Fox and her partner, Shaun. Photograph: Martin Hunter.

You know Wigtown? 

It's that place near Newton Stewart. 

Only a relatively short hop from London.



Jessica now lives above a secondhand bookshop, in an old Georgian building.

Jessica had typed "used bookshop Scotland" into Google.

She discovered Wigtown: Scotland's National Book Town, "a royal burgh of 1,000 residents and 12 bookshops beside the sea in Galloway." 


Miss World, in Wigtown. www.t-pageant.com ..

Arriving in Wigtown's charming main square, Jessica "found the town was everything I had dreamed and more - colourful stone houses, bookshops and vistas of mountains, sea and marshland."

There was "the merry chaos of the book festival, the hills to climb, crumbling castles to explore and people to meet.... I threw myself into the world of Wigtown, even playing the first ever cross-dressing Jewish Santa for the Christmas fair."

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Wigtown

• Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets by Jessica Fox is published by Short Books, £12.99. To order a copy for £10.39, including free UK p&p, go to guardian.co.uk/bookshop or call 0330 333 6846


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