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thesweetcheat 6262 posts |
Sep 27, 2012, 07:10
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drewbhoy wrote: CARL wrote: Hoy is a remote and barren place. It certainly isn't, but I agree it's a lovely place and worth seeing. Re: "remote", it's all about perspective I guess. Sometimes it's healthy to turn the map of Britain upside down, it's surprising how different things look and how much less "far away" Scotland appears to us southerners and how "remote" Land's End (and Dover!) become. Re: "barren", I do like a bit of peace and quiet, meself.
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CARL 511 posts |
Sep 27, 2012, 07:19
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peace and quiet? - you will like Hoy then!
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tiompan 5758 posts |
Sep 27, 2012, 08:59
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CARL wrote: peace and quiet? - you will like Hoy then! The coastal cliff walk is a classic , including getting attacked by bonxies .
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Evergreen Dazed 1881 posts |
Sep 27, 2012, 15:48
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tiompan wrote: CARL wrote: peace and quiet? - you will like Hoy then! The coastal cliff walk is a classic , including getting attacked by bonxies . I've got to get up to Orkney. The sooner the better. I'm looking forward to skateboarding into the Tomb of the Eagles.
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bladup 1986 posts |
Sep 27, 2012, 18:11
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Evergreen Dazed wrote: tiompan wrote: CARL wrote: peace and quiet? - you will like Hoy then! The coastal cliff walk is a classic , including getting attacked by bonxies . I've got to get up to Orkney. The sooner the better. I'm looking forward to skateboarding into the Tomb of the Eagles. Looking at your photos i'm surprised you didn't hop over when you was up at Camster and Stemster, you maybe felt that trip should have took you even further, as Orkney is mind blowing, i was at the ring of brodgar during an annular eclipse once, amazing time and place, you have a lot to look forward to, i agree with thesweetcheat when your up there you realise there was no top and bottom back then because stenness and brodgar are a complex only inferior to avebury, thornborough in the middle of the countries huge as well, but there's just something magical about somewhere so special been right up there.
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Evergreen Dazed 1881 posts |
Sep 27, 2012, 18:18
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bladup wrote: Evergreen Dazed wrote: tiompan wrote: CARL wrote: peace and quiet? - you will like Hoy then! The coastal cliff walk is a classic , including getting attacked by bonxies . I've got to get up to Orkney. The sooner the better. I'm looking forward to skateboarding into the Tomb of the Eagles. Looking at your photos i'm surprised you didn't hop over when you was up at Camster and Stemster, you maybe felt that trip should have took you even further, as Orkney is mind blowing, i was at the ring of brodgar during an annular eclipse once, amazing time and place, you have a lot to look forward to, i agree with thesweetcheat when your up there you realise there was no top and bottom back then because stenness and brodgar are a complex only inferior to avebury, thornborough in the middle of the countries huge as well, but there's just something magical about somewhere so special been right up there. I would have loved to have gone during that trip but I simply didn't have the time. I've seen a fair bit of mainland Scotland and been over to Skye, Outer Hebrides but Orkney is next. I would like to go back to Callanish too, so may plan a 'big trip'.
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bladup 1986 posts |
Sep 27, 2012, 18:49
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Evergreen Dazed wrote: bladup wrote: Evergreen Dazed wrote: tiompan wrote: CARL wrote: peace and quiet? - you will like Hoy then! The coastal cliff walk is a classic , including getting attacked by bonxies . I've got to get up to Orkney. The sooner the better. I'm looking forward to skateboarding into the Tomb of the Eagles. Looking at your photos i'm surprised you didn't hop over when you was up at Camster and Stemster, you maybe felt that trip should have took you even further, as Orkney is mind blowing, i was at the ring of brodgar during an annular eclipse once, amazing time and place, you have a lot to look forward to, i agree with thesweetcheat when your up there you realise there was no top and bottom back then because stenness and brodgar are a complex only inferior to avebury, thornborough in the middle of the countries huge as well, but there's just something magical about somewhere so special been right up there. I would have loved to have gone during that trip but I simply didn't have the time. I've seen a fair bit of mainland Scotland and been over to Skye, Outer Hebrides but Orkney is next. I would like to go back to Callanish too, so may plan a 'big trip'. I loved callanish, i sat there for 3 days and could have stayed longer, every time for the rest of the trip i'd visit something else and then just go back, a bit like i was on an elastic band [visit somewhere then back to callanish and so on and so on], but lewis isn't as pretty an island as harris though is it and uist [especially north uist] is just downright otherworldly don't you think, and when i said otherworldly i didn't mean the people, although anywhere where they shut the kids parks on a sunday must have it's fare share of freaks, 5 church services a day and people thing the muslims are only like that, they spend that much of the day preying you wonder what they've done wrong!
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drewbhoy 2578 posts |
Sep 28, 2012, 02:44
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tiompan wrote: CARL wrote: peace and quiet? - you will like Hoy then! The coastal cliff walk is a classic , including getting attacked by bonxies . Correct :-)
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CARL 511 posts |
Sep 28, 2012, 07:15
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I know what you mean about Callanish - i did exactly the same. In fact I would say I have spent more hours at Callanish than any other site I have visited. The 'swirls' in the pattern of the stones have to be experienced in person to really appreciate them - most 'character' in standing stones ever! Without doubt the prettiest island I have visited is Harris - not much there but the beaches are amazing!
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goffik 3926 posts |
Sep 28, 2012, 09:32
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CARL wrote: Without doubt the prettiest island I have visited is Harris - not much there but the beaches are amazing! I think I have to agree with you there. As much as I loved Orkney, we've been to the Outer Hebrides more often, and spent some fabulous days in/on Harris. I never really understood why Lewis and Harris were 2 islands in one till I went there. They really are such very different places! There's another sleeping figure in Harris, too. I have the details at home but don't remember them offhand. A very mysterious and strangely - yet attractively - barren place. G x
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