When we first got to Shetland it was all about incubating the eggs, now its raising the young like this Kittiwake

John o’ Groats

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June 19th 2017
19 June 2017 When we are travelling in the van we normally top up the gas bottle every three weeks. Unfortunately there was no facility to do this in either Shetland or Orkney but our supply did not run out. We did a 20 mile detour southwards to a garage in the village of Watten outside Wick which had an Autogas pump. We can now venture into the wilds of Northern Scotland feeling far mor ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more