BACK TRANSLATE 5. At one after breakfast we set off to the capital of the Orkney's, to "Kirkwall". By the way we short stop at the "Italian Chapel". The chapel consists of two huts with an impressed portal and fantastic paintings of the wall inside by Domenico Chiocchetti.
In continuing our journey just before "Kirkwall" we visit our first distillery "Higland Park".
From this distillery there are many decantations, the 12 and the 18 years old whisky(40% and 43% Vol.) are spread most wide. The taste of them is light sweet with notes of heather, peat, ashore wind and honey.
We reach "Kirkwall" the mainvillage of the isle mainland and about 7000 inhabitants. Going round the magnificent St. Magnus Kathedrale, built of cause for the earl of Rognvald, which characterizes the townscape up to date.
In turning of the year in Kirkwall and Stromness are performed "Ba' Games", going back to heathen tradition.
Further on to the "Standing stones of Stenuess". Did they serve as assembly points, sacrifice points or prayer points? Nobody knows it. The answers of sience varies in the sphere of speculation.
Next stop is the village of stone age "Scara Brae". Discovered 1850 when a heavy thunderstorm washed away parts of a dene. In 1920 the archeologist Gordon Childe exposed this village. This village was permanent populated about 600 years. The houses were built of stone also most the furnitures. Hence many things are well preserved: Stone stoves, kitchen-cupboards, tables and even stone-beds.
move on: 1. Ravens Craig 2. Ullapool 3. Ullapool - Scourie 4. Scourie - Orkney 5. Orkney 6. Orkney - Dornoch 7. Dornoch - Fort Augustus 8. Fort Augustus - Inverness