To the Orkneys!
June 14th 2008 Saturday 14th June
Today we are to begin a 2½ day tour of the Orkney islands. The Orkney islands are about 7 miles (at the nearest point) off the north coast of Scotland at a latitude of around 59o N. (By comparison, Edinburgh is at 55o N, and is around 400 miles distant). The Orkneys are a group of 70 or so islands, 17 or 18 of which are inhabited. (The residents of one island are in the pr
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