Neil Macpherson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Nov 20, 2022
Seafront houses in Stromness, #Orkney, with their individual slipways, reflected on a mirrorlike sea.
A calmer day than today!
Show threadMarplesmarbles
@Hadenuff I visited Orkney on a day trip back in ‘19 When I go back, I plan to stay longer😁I absolutely loved Orkney💕💖💕
Nov 20, 2022 at 5:50pmWeb
Show threadNeil Macpherson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Nov 20, 2022
@Marplesmarbles A day definitely not enough! I hope you manage to get back for a couple of weeks (at least)!
Show threadCatherine BrownNov 20, 2022
@Marplesmarbles @Hadenuff Orkney was the best place I ever went for work - keep trying to persuade OH we should go for a week…. So much to see!
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@Marplesmarbles @Hadenuff I did a week
So much to see. Bruised on the ferry up to Westray
Show threadMarplesmarblesNov 20, 2022
@JohnLoader6 @Hadenuff I stayed in Wick(down road from Old Pulteney Distillary. The Harbour chip shop was amazing😋😋😋The taxi to & from John O Groats was the pricy bit(no buses available) ferry over to Orkney, then bus tour through Orkney. Kirkwall, Stromness, Ring of Brogar, Scara Brae, Churchill Barriers, Italian Church. Didn’t want to leave😁
Show threadNeil Macpherson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Nov 20, 2022
@Marplesmarbles that's how we first came to Orkney, 8 years ago. Did the day trip, fell in love and moved here. Never looked back. 🙂
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@Marplesmarbles @Hadenuff Church brilliant. 50 years after creation the original artist returned to tidy the paintings. After his death Highland Park invited his family to help make a new limited edition whisky. They did. It was called Capella. Limited edition and we drank 3 though not all together. Profits I believe went to chapel maintenance
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@Marplesmarbles @Hadenuff Wick airport has a spooky claim to fame. It holds the UK record for planes crashing to and from the airport. The place is used by delivery pilots between US and Europe, often single engines. They have to go up the coast of Canada, possibly Greenland and then Wick refuelling everywhere they can. The weather is atrocious in the North Atlantic so many don't make it
Show threadNeil Macpherson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Nov 21, 2022
@JohnLoader6 @Marplesmarbles Wow, I didn't know that. I'll stick to using Gatwick! 😄
Show threadMarplesmarblesNov 21, 2022
@JohnLoader6 @Hadenuff Wow😳I didn’t even know Wick had an airport! That said. I only recently discovered Cumbernauld had an airport as well! #EveryDayIsASchoolDay
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@Marplesmarbles @Hadenuff cruises not bruised though my wife went a bit green
Show threadNeil Macpherson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Nov 20, 2022
@JohnLoader6 @Marplesmarbles 😄 the Westray ferry ran aground last week. A few red faces and probably bruises. They floated it off on the tide.
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@Hadenuff @Marplesmarbles Whilst we were on it we saw old Naval Landing Craft coming in with artics on them. I gather they work on the salmon farms
Show threadSue BarnishNov 20, 2022
@Marplesmarbles @Hadenuff
I visited about 10+years ago on a flying day visit. I went because my Great Uncle, stationed on Orkney during the war, described it as the last place God made. A day was definitely not enough time. I loved every minute. All I can say is God saved the best till last. One day I will go back for longer.
Show threadNeil Macpherson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Nov 20, 2022
@suebarnish_exTw1tter @Marplesmarbles I hope you get an opportunity in the near future.