Exciting new loans at Orkney Museum We’re excited to share that for the first time in over 35 years, the Burray Hoard, Orkney’s second largest Viking Age hoard, will be on display in Orkney Museum.Discovered in 1889, it hoard dates to 1000 AD, and contains nearly 2kg of silver. Items from the hoard form a part […]
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Skye Walk The path from Elgol to Camasunary is not for those who march across the moors in birkenstocks or claim to climb the Cuillansin their flip flops.It’s for the surefour footedand thoseunconcernedwith falling.
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The Hidden Isle I created a stir in Orkney! I infiltrated the community of Longhope as a stranger and lefts as one. I surreptitiously was dressed as a “tourist,” and left in the uniform of a police constable in the Northern Constabulary. I had been instructed to uphold the law, with regard to drink driving
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The Rock The Rock is not a Rock; it’s a thousand and one Rocks.The substrates; the gneiss Rock, the deep peat, the prehistoric Rocks.The local Rocks: the crofters, the cruise ship tour guides, the Leòdhasach Scottish Makar, the villages hollowed out by holiday lets, Rocks. The teenagers working in the chip shops, the Townie whose
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Ode to an Island The Isle of Wight was once my home, its coastline wild and free,and memories of that time, well spent, will always stay with me.Of Alum Bay’s, coloured sands, its needles, and a famous lighthouse stands.Tennyson Down, the whale-backed ridge of chalk, where people go to attempt thestrenuous walk.Ventnor, with its climate
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MY WORLD UPSIDE DOWNFROM THE BEAUTY OF THE WAVESSEE YOU AGAIN SEA
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The Magic of Gozo Tucked quietly away from its larger sibling, Malta, the island of Gozo unfolds like a well-kept secret – unhurried, soulful, and irresistibly authentic. So close, yet so distinct from mainland Malta, Gozo offers a complete change of pace – where wheat-coloured cliffs meet sapphire seas, time seems to linger a little
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Persepectives If I was a tropic bird I would know about the calls of my kin as I launch from my rocky perch,unfolding angelic wings and soaring over the cliffs above Munden’s Point on a cushion ofsalty updraft. My eyes scanning across the sparkling expanse of endless ocean to catch theglint of silver baitfish before
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On a May Morning On a May morning there’s talk of the festival, an after party and sore heads, while gulls siren and pass overhead, leaving curlews the fields and oystercatchers the shore, and petrels the wide grey sea, passing over turf roofs thousands of years old, and memories of hearth and an ember that
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Saltstänkta år hemmet mitt är en ljuv morgonbris,doften av fläder och julis ljusdet är daggen i september,dimman över viken när solen går upp det är kylan i januari,våren som vägrar kommaiskallt hav och frusna drömmar vattnet som knappt är salt här borta pinar vinden med,men flädern blommar redan i majoch det grönskar i mars himlen
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