Orkney – Final Thoughts
For the last of my reports from Orkney, I have just a few images to share from the amazing geology on the island and a couple of the stained glass windows in St. Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall. The rocks vary so much over the islands there was always something else to see. Can you spot the […]
Orkney – The Broch of Gurness
On to the Broch of Gurness on Orkney, the third part of my brief visit to the islands. Brochs are an Iron Age building that can look a little like a modern power station cooling tower. Large, circular, tall and tapering they are all over the place on Orkney – although mostly as a ring […]
Orkney – Standing Stones
In the second of my posts about Orkney I am looking at just some of the amazing standing stones to be seen there. There are many of these on the islands and I only saw a few of them in the time I had. All the images below come from The Ring of Brodgar and […]
Orkney – A Personal Visit
I had always wanted to go to the Orkney Isles and in October I finally got the chance to spend a few days there. There is so much to say about the islands that I am going to write a few smaller blog posts now each focusing on something different. In this post, I want […]
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