He is jetting abroad to escape the pressure after a dramatic week which saw him quit as leader of Glasgow council.
Sources close to Purcell said he won't return for up to a year.
Earlier yesterday, Purcell followed up his decision to quit as £60,000-a-year leader of Scotland's biggest local authority by standing down as a councillor.
Purcell spent some time at the Castle Craig rehab clinic in the Borders after he quit as council chief .
He disappeared from the clinic on Sunday but turned up again soon afterwards.
A source close to Purcell said: "Steven has always had an interest in the southern hemisphere and it is thought he might be spending some time there.
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Meeting his suppliers?
I reckon he is in Tenerife. He is rumoured to have a bolthole there.
It is close enough to the Equator to confuse his family; the did say "Southern Hemisphere" and not "Antipodes"
Interest in the Southern Hemisphere, mmm well, points South, maybe,
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