The Italian Chapel in Orkney, built on the Island Lamb Holm by Italian prisoners of war, is a very special reminder of hard times. In October 1939 a German submarine under the command of Gunther Prien entered Scapa Flow and sank the British battleship ‘HMS Royal Oak’ with the loss of 834 lives. Winston Churchill, […]
After spending some time in the Ring of Brodgar, I continued along the road further down south, crossing the Churchill barriers until I arrived at Saint Margaret’s Hope on the island of South Ronaldsay. St. Margarets Hope is the third largest settlement in Orkney and it is a lovely little town down in the south. […]
The Ring of Brodgar is one of the biggest stone circles in the UK – it is only one of two in the Ness of Brodgar, the heart of the Neolithic Orkney. The 27 remaining stones have a height between 2 metres to almost 5 metres and form a circle with a diameter of 103.6m. […]