From: hjkhjkhd@hhhh.com   
      
   Two and half million quid mansion and a gold handicap of 17? More Bob Hope   
   than Bob Dylan, eh, protest kids?   
      
      
   The Times   
      
   January 17, 2007   
      
      
   The £2.2m Highland retreat that Dylan will call home   
   Shirley English   
      
      
      
   Discover the Cairngorms for yourself   
      
      
   Bob Dylan should know where the Highlands are now - he and his brother have   
   bought a patch of Scottish glen.   
   The singer, 65, and his brother, David Zimmerman, are said to have spent   
   £2.2 million on Aultmore House, an Edwardian hideaway in 25 acres of   
   woodland near Nethy Bridge, Inverness-shire, in the shadow of the   
   Cairngorms.   
   Dylan has long expressed a fondness for Scotland, but his knowledge of its   
   geography has been less than perfect. In his 1997 song Highlands he placed   
   them "way up in the Border country, far from the towns". His new home is 200   
   miles north of the Borders.   
   The singer spent a week last spring at the ten-bedroom Grade A listed   
   mansion, then a five-star B&B that could be rented out for £3,000 a night   
   and whose interiors had featured in the BBC drama Monarch of the Glen.   
   Aultmore was built early in the last century for H. Millet, the owner of a   
   premier Moscow department store.   
   The purchase, under the family name Zimmerman, caused a flurry of excitement   
   in Nethy Bridge last year. However, since then the millionaire musician,   
   writer and broadcaster has not made a return visit, although his brother has   
   been spotted in the village.   
   Knight Frank, the selling agents, said initially that a "very private   
    person" had bought Aultmore House. But yesterday they confirmed that it had   
   been purchased by "a member of Bob Dylan's family".   
   Despite his celebrity there is no guarantee that the singer, a keen golfer   
   who recently confessed to having a handicap of 17, will be able to join the   
   local Abernethy club. "Mr Dylan will have to apply in writing just like   
   everyone else and be vetted by the committee," Jack McCool, the club   
   treasurer, said.   
      
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