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Orkney islands the second time

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the first visit to the Orkneys I didn’t have a car which made it extremely difficult to go and see what I wanted to see so I went back to the mainland, rented a car and went by ferry to the Shetlands and then back down to the Orkney before returning to the mainland.

Some old archaeological fines go back 6000 years. People lived up here at that time and this is one of the large settlements uncovered
The purpose of this was to provide a nesting place for birds. The bird poop would be used for fertilizer, the eggs and the birds themselves for food and of course the birds would eat the insects around the farm . Below you see the bird poop and droppings from the birds nests above
There is a very large house here owned by a very rich family from long ago and when the ocean came smashing on the shore from a storm it exposed parts of this pict village. So the owner of the land did the excavation and now it is quite a tourist attraction
Inside the big house there was a photo of the Duke of Windsor, the one that became Edward VIII and also this signed visitor book by the Queen Mother, the mother of Elizabeth
This ring of standing stones has been here for more than 4000 thousand years
And now it’s time to get back to the mainland on a very nice and relaxing ferry complete with Shop, bar and restaurant
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