The greatest thing about the Garden of Eden and other legendary utopian spots are that they are exceedingly difficult to get to. Whether this is because they don’t actually exist or purely down to geographical adversities, it is this isolation from the rest of ‘us’ that makes them so special.
And so it is with any real paradise. Tropical islands are practically privatised and then priced to exclude the vast majority of people, while affordable destinations are so over-subscribed that most have lost the castaway essence that first attracted us to them – for a prime example look at Thailand, or closer to home, the once desirable Costa Del Crime.