It’s not possible to think about a break cycling in Orkney without discussing two subjects. The first is wind. Understanding the wind, listening to the forecast and checking the wind direction are all second nature to Westray folk. For a fisherman it’s life and death. For a farmer it’s profit or loss. For tourists it’s [...]
It’s the first day of our stay and I go to the cupboard and the cupboard is bare. Not even a jar of pickled beetroot. It’s time to visit the shops. It’s a nine mile round trip on bikes, but that’s without taking into account the wind direction. When weather announcers say it’s five degrees [...]
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