Orkney
The Orkney Islands lie off the northern coast of Scotland and are easily reached either by air or by ferry. There are over 70 islands making up Orkney, and around 20 of those are inhabited. The islands have been inhabited since early times, and today...
My resolution this year is to read more, and one of the books that’s been on my list for a long time is The Living Mountain. What a wee gem of a book this is! Written in the 1940s and only about 100 pages long, this is Nan Shepherd’s breathtakingly See More
The Isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides looking so peaceful and picturesque in the winter sun today! There are various suggestions as to where the island’s name came from, but one suggestion is from Old Norse meaning ‘bare island’. Kisimul Castle, which sits on a small rocky outcrop in See More