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Thursday 13 April 2017

Brough Of Birsay

Las Ramblas head North for a short walk in the Orkney's. Linda, Neil, Alfie, Marion, Bruce, Jill, Kay, Kevin & Alfie (The Dog). Unfortunately Tammy Wynette missed the tide and had to wait by the Ice Cream Van on the Mainland.

Route
The Brough of Birsay is an uninhabited tidal island off the north-west coast of The Mainland of Orkney, Scotland, in the parish of Birsay. It is located around 13 miles north of Stromness and features the remains of Pictish and Norse settlements as well as a modern light house.
Whale Skull
Ships Figurehead
Coast
Not so Ancient ruins
Brough of Birsay
Crossing at low tide
Arriving on the island
Norse settlement
Pictish carved stone
Heading uphill
looking over to the Kitchener Memorial
Cliffs
Considering a troglodyte lifestyle 
Heading home

Sunday 2 April 2017

Early morning head clearer along the Ness

Bruce takes an early morning stroll along the River  Ness, Die Roten Rosen failed to appear they may have still been stuck in an Inverness Bar.

The River Ness is a river about 12 miles or 20 km long, which flows from the northern end of Loch Ness in, through Loch Dochfour, north-east to Inverness, with a total fall in height of about 16 metres before discharging into the Beauly Firth. The river is the origin of the name of Inverness which is from the Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Nis, meaning "Mouth of the Ness".
Inverness Castle & Flore MacDonald Statue

The Three Graces

River Ness

Toward the City

Castle From the river

And again

Oh well better go and earn some money