Our long period of good weather has come to an end with a bang rather than a whimper. Storm Hector. We woke up this morning wondering where the much vaunted Storm Hector had gone. There was plenty of rain but…

We’ve enjoyed our short time on Orkney and now wish we had planned to stay for longer. Orkney was not at all what we had expected. It is very different from most of the rest of the Highlands and the…

As we watched the BBC Weather forecast last night it became apparent that our ferry trip back to the mainland on Thursday would either be cancelled or would result in us losing our breakfast over the side! The forecast for…

Orkney is perhaps best known, from a tourist perspective, for its amazing Neolithic monuments. Most of these date back to between 3,000 and 2,500 BC. 5,000 years ago it is estimated that the Orkneys had a population of between 5,000…