Our Last Orcadian Day
June 16th 2008 Monday 16th June
Back to being colder and a little damp today. Again, plenty of wind. We started the day off by going to Mine Howe (Who remembers their Ancient Norse I've been teaching you? Howe means mound,). Indeed Mine Howe does appear first as a small grassy mound at the top of a very small rise. And mine means the same as in English so the place name means "the (mine) shaft in the moun
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