My first days in Assynt last year were during a bit of a heat wave, 2021 was such a dry and warm summer for the Scottish islands and the mainland, but it is so different this year! It´s been almost four weeks of travelling in the Outer Hebrides for me and I can count the […]
Click Mill Time for a little visit to Click Mill, a fully restored water mill built in the early 1820s, and was operational until the mid-1880s. The tradition of horizontal water mills in northern and western Scotland dates back to Norse times. The Click Mill at Dounby is one of the best surviving examples of […]
In 1850 a storm uncovered something truly special lying under the sand dunes next to Skaill beach in Orkney: Skara Brae – a Neolithic settlement. The Neolithic village of Skara Brae was discovered in the winter of 1850. Wild storms ripped the grass from a high dune known as Skara Brae, beside the Bay of […]