TRAVEL
August 8, 1999 | PATRICIA LEE LEWIS, Patricia Lee Lewis leads creative-writing retreats from her home in Massachusetts
There is a Gaelic prediction that whoever goes to Iona will go not once but three times. It is a tiny island, barely 1 1/2 by 3 miles, set across a narrow sound from the large island of Mull in the Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland. But the richness of its landscapes and its ancient history, and something mysterious and ineffable in its spirit, call the traveler to return.