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The top 10 reasons you shouldn't visit Westray - from theHALLofEINAR.com

The top 10 reasons you shouldn’t visit Westray

Friends and relatives often ask me whether Westray is a good place to visit and my answer is always very clear. “No,” I say. “I wouldn’t recommend it.” Here then are my top ten reasons why you should never visit Westray.

Einar and the Northern Lights - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Einar and the Northern Lights

There’s a fluorescent green ring encircling the Earth tonight made by charged particles from a solar wind. As if the milky way …

Ten Percent

Today is an important day in Orkney. It’s a Thursday so it’s the publication day of The Orcadian and Orkney Today newspapers. …