It was time for a day trip to Rousay, the little island just vis a vis from Evie and the Broch of Gurness. It is the 6th largest island of Orkney and around 200 people live in Rousay. Travelling there is a bit scary, at least the part when you have to reverse drive onto […]
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 […]
The Knowes of Trotty – I actually “found” them while looking for a nice little walk in Orkney. And taking a little hike to a Bronze Age cemetery really sounded intriguing. I circled around them first as I couldn´t find the starting point for the walk, but in the end I found the tiny parking […]