If your sweetheart turns to you tonight and whispers "shall we try for a little one?", don't dismiss them out of hand. It could be they're talking about an Irish island.

As long as you're not sticklers for electricity or hot running water, you'll embrace the majestic 1,100 acres (4 1/2 square kilometers) of emerald isle as your domain.

As well as sublime views, the generous rain keeps the landscape lush and those stiff Atlantic breezes power the wind turbine that generates enough electricity to charge up your phone.

Great Blasket Island

@gbisland

** Job Vacancy ** 

A unique position required - looking for long term management of Island Accommodation and Coffee Shop. Couple or two friends. 

 1st April 2020 - October 2020 accommodation and food provided. 

Email Alice on info @ greatblasketisland.net for more information

The roles, suited to a couple or two friends, involves the management of the island's coffee shop and three vacation cottages from April to October this year. Accommodation and food are provided and wages discussed on application.

Candidates should be aware they'll be facing some tough competition.

"We've had about 7,000 applications," Alice Hayes tells CNN Travel on January 16, having posted the job vacancy online just six days earlier.

Hayes and her partner, Billy O'Connor, live on the nearby Dingle Peninsula and O'Connor runs regular boat tours to the island in summertime.

Together, the couple refurbished the islands' cottages, one of which was home to legendary storyteller Peig Sayers, whose Irish-language autobiography "Peig," published 1936, has been a standard text for generations of Irish students.

Sayers had "a very tough and difficult life on the island," says Hayes, and her famously bleak book documented "the hardship she went through."

The island's 2019 caretakers were Lesley Kehoe and Gordon Bond. Like Sayers, they shared their Great Blasket experiences with the world -- although their Instagram and Twitter accounts presented a rosier view of Atlantic living.

However, wannabe caretakers should take note: "What you see on social media isn't what it's all about."

While she posted "pictures of bonfires, fields and sunsets," what you didn't see is Kehoe "running round the cottages making beds" or "queues coming out of the coffee shop."

"You can easily forget that it gets up to 400 visitors a day," she adds. "it can be incredibly busy."

As for off-the-grid living, Kehoe says that while you can use your cottage's kettle to boil water for showers, after a few days she steeled herself and got used to showering cold.

Start your morning that way, she says, and "at least you know that's the coldest you'll be that day."

The water is fed by an island spring and that pure water and fresh air has its benefits. "My skin, my hair, my general health was incredible," says Kehoe.

There's no electricity or Wi-Fi on the island, but, surprisingly, the mobile internet reception is excellent, thanks to a mast a few miles away on the mainland.