Have had some bad connection luck over the last few days — hard to predict reliable internet service when one is on the road — but I’ve a quick ten minutes here to describe my time in Orkney.
As if…
In the last two days I’ve been from Inverness through John O’Groats, onto an enormous ferry ALL BY MYSELF to sail to Orkney, and toured around several of the islands.
It’s been breath-taking and VERY surprising.
I’ll leave you with this picture of the standing stones at Brodgar, and will add more soon. Getting kicked out of the library at Kirkwall…!
More soon…
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Colour me jealous.
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Wow! It looks absolutely amazing!
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A view from a-broad eh? Alas not an original thought. I believe Bette Midler titled one of her albums thus…. You get a gold star for the ferry aloneness. I'd be curious to know why "surprising".
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Surprising? Well…the climate, the topography, the people…none of which reflected quite the way I expected. The weather — far more temperate, though I definitely expected the windiness. I've never been to so treeless an environment — it was amazing to look across the landscape! The people's connection to Norway and the lack of Gaelic really surprised me, too. I love going new places and learning so much. The pivotal role that Scapa Flow played in both World Wars — truly astonishing. I loved every minute of being on Orkney.
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