Saturday 2nd Sunday 3rd July 2022 Mainland Orkney Our time in Orkney was almost up but still we had so many places to visit so off we went trying to fit it all in. Firstly we visited the Brough of Deerness a walking route around some craggy coastlines offering beautiful views out over the North…

Friday 1st July – Saturday 2nd July 2022 Westray Once on mainland Orkney we decided we would try check out another Island so we settled on Westray, Orkneys most north-westerly Island. Taking an hour and a half on the ferry from Kirkwall, the car and passenger ferry docks at Rapness at the far south of…

Wednesday 29th & Friday 1st July 2022 Named ‘high island’ by the Vikings, Hoy certainly lives up to the title and we were hopping over for a stay which took us around 30 minutes by ferry from Orkney Mainland. Orkney’s second largest island rises dramatically from the sea. With almost-mountainous moorland and glacial valleys, it’s…

Orkney Tuesday 28th June 2022 I have put The Italian Chapel in as a single post with a small bit about the Churchill Barriers, as I think it deserves it. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. The Italian Chapel was something I have been wanting to see for sometime now.  I saw…

Orkney Monday 27th June 2022 I am loving Orkney already. Field after field after field can be see all around. There is so much farmland with houses dotted here and there. Lots of empty space. Then of course being so close to the sea, its very beautiful. Although one thing is missing for me….trees (and…

Saturday 25th – Sunday 26th June 2022 Scrabster – Orkney With one weeks annual leave and weather looking pretty rubbish all over Scotland for the whole week apart from one place, we were definitely heading to that place. In order to get pretty decent weather and by that I basically mean no rain, we just…

Friday 24th – Saturday 25th June 2022 Cairngorms What were you doing Friday 24th June 2022, midnight? Well let me tell you a little story about where I was….and so it begins! We were itching to go on a wild camp, somewhere in the middle of nowhere, somewhere remote, somewhere in the mountains. It had…