Polrudden Guest House
Travel Blogs from Kirkwall
To the top of mainland Scotland
... made it all look even better. We got back to Inverness and booked into in the same caravan park. We mostly stay in Caravan Club parks now, have not come across a bad one yet and the facilities are always very good. We were made to feel very welcome again and nearly got our old site back, had to park 2 sites further up. All settled again and planning where to go tomorrow
A .nice, long day and very enjoyable
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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
... at the Barn. Thank you John and Isabell for allowing us to hast this in the Chalmersquoy residence. We had Haddock and chips from the local fish and chip shop as well as a number of salads and deserts supplied by Joy and my sister Margaret. The night went off well and everyone had a great evening wuth plenty of stories and jokes being told. There where also a number of occasions that the three kiwis had absolutely no idea of what had been said due to the accents of the Westray ones.
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Day 2, Orkney and the Gunn's
... involved secure strongholds, archers, swordsmen and battle axes.
The local community on Wyre put on a buffet lunch for us which was all local foods, fresh salmon, crabs claws and crab meat, pork, ham, breads, cheese etc. Yum
We then spent some time wandering about the island looking for and at historical sites. The local cattle are very friendly and are happy to come up to you for a pat/ investigate. I think this may be due to them ...
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 ...