Scotland  August 1998

PHOTOGRAPHS Severely edited highlights of the adventures of three webmasters and a Skoda in Scotland.

Unfortunately I've only seen these on an 8-bit colour terminal, so apologies if they don't look brilliant. I'll sort them out at a later date. Maybe. If I ever get a round tuit.

They're all copyright, by the way. Violators will be marooned on Barrel of Butter with Graham Norton.

• Ring of Brogar, Orkney
• 5000 year old dwelling, Skara Brae
• St Magnus' Cathedral, Kirkwall
• Italian Chapel, Lamb Holm
• Evening light over Scapa Flow
• En route between the mainland and Hoy
• Richard & Pauline on top of Hoy
• View of the mainland from Hoy
• The Old Man of Hoy
• The world-famous (well, famous within Astrophysics) island of Barrel of Butter (in the foreground, with the oil terminal of Flotta behind), Scapa Flow
• An amusing roadsign
(if you mispronounce the name of the village) (cropped version of picture used without permission by Graham Norton on Channel 4)
• The Old Man of Hoy (as seen from St Ola on the smoother of our two crossings)
• Sunset on the A9 between Thurso and Inverness
  • Another view of the above
• Seal of approval?
• The Summer Isles
• The Common Cormorant (or shag) on takeoff
• Part of the wildlife (and a dragonfly)

Things of which I don't have pictures

• A "Blind Summit" sign
• The Knowes of Euro
• The road along which Richard took us to the Broch of Gurness
• Wildlife in the road (be it a horse, a peacock, dogs, flock of sheep, herd of wildebeest...)
• Pauline's vicious and completely unprovoked attack on me at Contin
• The reaction to the "squash & go" joke (or indeed anything which provoked it)
• The car on any of the many motorway hard shoulders on which we stopped
• Muckle Green Holm
• mucklegreenholm.physics.ox.ac.uk
• Sunrise anywhere on our holiday
• A round tuit
• A piece of wood being hurriedly waved around the car
• A Scotsman on a horse

Links

• The Orkney Islands
• Orkney on the Internet
• The Heritage of the Orkney Islands
• Introduction to Orkney
• P&O Scottish Ferries: Scrabster to Stromness
• Highlands of Scotland Tourist Board
• A mad Mertonian Scotsman

© Robin Stevens, rejs@cynic.org.uk
All photographs are licensed under a Creative Commons License.