Castle Arms Hotel Thurso

Mey Thurso, Caithness and Sutherland, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, KW14 8XH, United Kingdom

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The end of the rode ?

A travel blog entry by christefercrocu

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... 2 keep her now ! ...

in a kupple of dayz... we will get the Tax E ... from ear ....2 Gill 'z bay ...joost a long the way... and get the ferry over 2 the Orkney eye landz.... frm wear we land... Saint margarets Hope ... we kan get a bus 2 the kapitol.... Kirkwall.... sum ...

Day 9 - the return journey.

A travel blog entry by robertosborough

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... met along the way were obliging and helpful - singling out for special mention, the guys at the garage in Shrewsbury who sorted out the towing electrics, the staff at the Days Inn in Lockerbie, the very kind lady who came to Simon's assistance following his tumble outside her house at Lockerbie, the paramedics & staff at Dumfries Hospital A&E who patched him up and put him together again, Sheila at the Helmsdale ...

Day 172 - 19 August - Back to the Mainland

A travel blog entry by wagaitwanderers

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This morning we returned to the same cafe as yesterday for brunch and ran into one the guys from the hostel who we chatted with last night, so he joined us for a feed. Chatted more until our parking ticket was due to expire so we left him to his desert and went for a drive to north end of the mainland island.

We stopped at Brough Head near Birsay where there was an island with an ancient settlement that can be reached via a causeway at low tide. Unfortunately the tide was up so ...

Day 171 - 18 August - A look around Orkney

A travel blog entry by wagaitwanderers

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... stopping the German U-boats from getting in. We also came across a chapel built by Italian POW's which was quite intreresting.

After this we went for a drive up through the middle of the mainland to have a look at the standing stones of Stenness. It's a stone henge that is quite a bit older than THE stonehenge but thanks to an overzealous farmer armed with explosives, there are only 4 left. Nearby is a very ancient settlement called Barnhouse village which was ...

Orkney Islands

A travel blog entry by cdennison

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The Orkneys are a series of islands at the top of Scotland. Kirkwall is on Mainland, Orkney's largest island. It is sparsely populated and its roads have no stop signs or streetlights. The landscape is lush and rolling, the harbour is very wide and deep and was an important strategic port during the second world war. Although we had great weather the day we were there It gets quite cold here and ...

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