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To the top of mainland Scotland
... for overnight accommodation and refurbishing the old hotel and building new chalets. There are some lovely island which you can visit on day tours, these tours take up most of the day and require an overnight stop at John O'Groats ,so it makes sense to build a few chalets. Had a lovely long chat to the lady and her son, so much information they provided for us. Good to stand there and find out what the ...
Good morning day 1
Weather is looking good so far but can change quickly when we hit the big climbs of the day. We aim to have breakfast at 7. Gordon our host for the night is cooking a big fry up. And aim to be on the road for 8. Traveling west to tongue then south to binary bridge 106 miles. From jogle ...
Returning to Westray
... laugh at Jocks jokes and stories.
We spent another 7 days on Westray with relatives and still havent seen everthing we would like to so possibly there may be a return in the future.
We spent plenty of time at various houses enjoying the hospitality of our distant relatives.
We also had the opportunity to visit Papay for a night and day, it was unfortunately foggy the whole time we where there but this did not stop us exploring the Knap of Hower which is ...
Day 2, Orkney and the Gunn's
... Chuck (the clan piper) played both at the castle and in the small church, he found a new talent here and started the legend of the coo caller as each time he played the cows came running to see what was going on much to our parties (and Chucks) amusement.
The guides painted a fairly discriptive picture of a blood thirsty bunch of people (vikings after all) the easiest way then, as now to deal with issues was well to deal with the cause which seems ...
Day 1 Kirkwall
... to tell local stories and be the caller for the dancing, our bar staff for the evening where David and Amy Stevenson (yep more relatives who we had not previously met) there where other locals on hand too help out with the dancing, the food was all local fare,lots of fun was had and plenty of laughter as we got lost in the dance moves (even with a ...
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