Last day today and moving out of our apartment by 10am (Jackie and Ian were keeping their apartment for another day so we would all have somewhere to store our bags). Bus into Kirkwall and quick detour into the Magnus Centre to watch a film about the cathedral. Bit of a walk up to the Highland Park distillery and quite a good tour and tasting. I even got to finish Jackie's dram. Walk back into Kirkwall and lunch at the Reel. Sally and I caught the bus back to Finstown and went for a walk to the neolithic cairn on the hill above the firth. Very well built burial tomb with a small passage that can be crawled along to take a look. The "stones" above the cairn turned out to be piles of stone and perhaps quite recent. Jackie and Ian did the rest of the museum in Kirkwall and then returned to Finstown where we did tea and cake.
Tonight we are off to the Italian in Kirkwall and then to the Aberdeen ferry at 11pm. Should be interesting!
"Tastes like hairspray" said Jackie to the man from Highland Park Distillery
The rabbit hole from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Orkney)
Going through the tunnel
There's no light inside but of course that's not so easy to show in a photo. It's beautifully made with 3 sub-chambers off the main chamber.
Propping the piles of stone upright in the Orkney wind
The view over to the Atlantis Apartments and the Firth
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