If you are going to Scotland and want to visit archeological sites you MUST visit Orkney. There is just so much to see with marvellous stone circles, bronze-age dwellings, iron-age and pictish. I spent three days there and could have spent ten.
Some really great self-catering bunkhouses and hostels. I can thoroughly recommend Hamnavoe Hostel at Stromness in Orkney for use as a base.
The Outer Hebrides (Lewis, Harris, etc) are also brilliant and the ride across the extreme north of Scotland between Orkney and the Hebrides is the best I have ever experienced in the UK.
It could be the Mediterranean, but it's Harris in the Outer Hebrides
I put together a pile of links and suggested routes to help people visiting Orkney, Shetlands and Outer Hebrides.
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and enlarges the world in which you live," Irving Mather (1892-1966)
Last edited by Tim Cullis; 26 Apr 2015 at 17:03.
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