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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

• 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

By SIMON REEVE
PUBLISHED: 19:45 EST, 25 April 2012 | UPDATED: 03:01 EST, 26 April 2012
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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.

Life's a beach: Brendon Grimshaw on Moyenne, the Seychelles island he bought in 1962 for £8,000

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1tCclGfFR

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What a way cool story! I think the 22-acre island would be a little small way out in the Indian ocean all alone!!