- February 17, 2021A great spot to visit on any tours of Scotland. Its near Caithness. This castle was the holiday home…
- February 16, 2020The Roman geographer Ptolemy in his first century AD map called it the ‘clean-cut cape’: Duncansby Head looks like…
- September 30, 2019Mainland is the largest in Orkney and Kirkwall is the county town. Roughly one-third of Mainland’s 14,000 population lives in…
- February 1, 2019In both First and Second World Wars, Scapa Flow was a busy naval base, and in both wars its defences…
- November 28, 2018Of the 49 islands which constitute Orkney (not ‘the Orkneys’, or the ‘the Orkney Islands’), Hoy is the 2nd largest,…
- January 19, 2015Shetland Islands, Scotland The rugged and remote Shetland Islands – a collection of mighty, wind-ravaged clumps of brown and green…
- September 5, 2014Orkney captures the imagination and the eye, its balding turf reflective of constantly changing shades of light as clouds scurry…