The Orkney Islands is not inhabited by a lot of people. When we got off the ferry trying to find a bus to our hotel became harder than we anticipated. It was really weird they actually had us go on a school bus to get nearer to our hotel. After the school bus we then walked a fair distance to our hotel. When we went to Orkney there was a famous music festival going on. We learned that if you raise your arm when a bus drives by they should stop. I wish we knew that in Oban but maybe it only works in Orkney.
The picture below is a picture of the St. Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall. St. Magnus Cathedral has a lot of history. The founding of it was started by an earl. It took over 300 years to make this Cathedral. Because Dane and I went to Kirkwall (the capital of Orkney) during the music Festival There were a ton of tourists! The church was very very hard to see anything everybody was taking a million pictures.
We didn't do as much as we would have liked at the music festal. We missed a day due to us walking to our hotel and having no other buses to get to kirkwall that night. So instead we had one day and part of that day Dane made sure we some of the very old sites. Hence, we only went to one thing at the music festival and that was a poem discussion. The guy presenting studied old viking poems and interrupted them from old Norse. It was very interesting learning what he felt people needed to know and to learn about those old poems.
The picture below is a picture of the St. Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall. St. Magnus Cathedral has a lot of history. The founding of it was started by an earl. It took over 300 years to make this Cathedral. Because Dane and I went to Kirkwall (the capital of Orkney) during the music Festival There were a ton of tourists! The church was very very hard to see anything everybody was taking a million pictures.
We didn't do as much as we would have liked at the music festal. We missed a day due to us walking to our hotel and having no other buses to get to kirkwall that night. So instead we had one day and part of that day Dane made sure we some of the very old sites. Hence, we only went to one thing at the music festival and that was a poem discussion. The guy presenting studied old viking poems and interrupted them from old Norse. It was very interesting learning what he felt people needed to know and to learn about those old poems.
The 'town' of Skara Brae was one of the neatest things I have ever seen in my life. Skara Brae is a prehistoric village where people from the neolithic ages lived about 5,000 years ago. It is so weird to imagine who they were and what they did. The whole village was under ground I kind of know why. It was freezing! The wind was so strong! Dane says it would have been warmer back then but I'm not convinced.
The village was neat to see. They got all their food from the ocean and had each home connected with tunnels to other homes there also was no sign of any kind of hierarchy everybody was equal.
These stone circles were also so praiseworthy. This circle is called The Ring of Brodgar. I wish we could get a picture of the whole thing. They are incredible to look at and it is so neat to be able to think about who these people were and what they believed in. Why did they put up these stones? We didn't end up going to Stone Henge it was out of the way and we have heard there are always a million people. I was fine with missing them because we got to see these.
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