The northern isles of the Orkney archipelago receive fewer visitors than the main island (known as the Mainland) and those to the south. But they have a windswept magic of their own, says Mark Rowe in ...

When you think of Orkney, you probably think of the past. That’s not unreasonable, to be fair, because there really is a lot of it. There’s the very old stuff, like Skara Brae, Maeshowe, The Ring of ...

The UK has a lot of old things in it, which often results in jokes like a Brit telling an American: "My local pub is older than your country." This is true in a lot of cases. But some places are way ...

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