Swallow Thurso
Traill St Thurso, Caithness and Sutherland, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, KW14 8EH, United Kingdom
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Inverness to Thurso, Scotland
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Thurso, Scotland
After leaving Inverness, Cherry handed me a small magnet of a painted picture of a thistle. She said that she knew how much I like thistles (not true, I just wanted one in a glass paper weight), so she got it for me. I thanked her. Apparently she is getting the room to herself even during …
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The end of the rode ?
... 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.
... places in their own right and well worth a visit if you're in the area. Worst bits - I'll keep my own counsel on those. I guess the guys will have their personal and collective views which they will doubtless mention in due course. I would however suggest that they would include the horrendous weather on Day 6 through Glasgow and Glen Coe and, of course, Simon's accident at Lockerbie.
Generally however, the ...
Day 172 - 19 August - Back to the Mainland
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 ...
One Man's POW is Another Man's Interior Decorator
The last stop before the ferry home was the site of the Italian Chapel on Lamb Holm, a tiny, uninhabited island. Although it was raining horses and cattle by that time, the beauty of the Italian Chapel was still evident. It's an amazing artefact of the second world war, and a shrine to the Italian POW's love for their country (not patriotism, but a deep rooted love and nostalgia for the culture and history of the world they were ...



