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…

The CL we stayed on last night had numerous ducks and chickens running around it. I was expecting to be woken at 3am (the time it gets light here) by the two cockerels, but much to my surprise we didn’t…

Today is what I think of, on these trips, as a “dead” day. We really wanted to be in Orkney but couldn’t get a ferry until tomorrow and it being the far north of Scotland there was not much to…