Orkney to the Hansa Worlds

The trip starts in Scotland through Glasgow, Edinburgh, to north Scotland. Across to the Orkney islands.
With a wondering trip through Sunderland, Cambridge to Odiham and London.
Then to Bruges and off to Portugal for the Hansa World championship Read more

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September 5, 2023
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Day 1
Tuesday, September 5, 2023 at 8:10 PM
🌙 17 °C
Altitude: 16 m
Australia White Horse Point -33.855002, 151.17193233°51’18” S 151°10’19” E
Long haul flights, yuck.
September 5, 2023 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
Sydney to Dubai 14 hours, the Dubai to Glasgow another 7.
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Day 2
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at 12:45 PM
⛅ 20 °C
Altitude: 22 m
Scotland Abbotsinch 55.870556, -4.43570455°52’14” N 4°26’9” W
Day 2 arrive in Glasgow
September 6, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
You'll have to ask.
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Day 3
Thursday, September 7, 2023 at 11:59 PM
⛅ 17 °C
Altitude: 169 m
Scotland Meall Dearg 56.667928, -4.98652456°40’5” N 4°59’11” W
Highlands Piper at Glencoe
September 7, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Stopped at a scenic lookout. The piper performance was enhanced by the Three Sisters spectacular backdrop.

Performance video to be loaded when get a better connection.
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Day 3
Thursday, September 7, 2023
☁️ 25 °C
Altitude: 36 m
Scotland Glen Coe 56.67172, -5.08175656°40’18” N 5°4’54” W
Highland tour details.
September 7, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
A small bus with a most entertaining driver. Crossed the Clyde at Dumbarton, the home of Ballantyne whisky. I believe where the Cutty Sark was built. Along the Leven river to Loch Lomond and a stop a Tarbet for the views of Ben Lomond. Tarbet for a cealec for full boat.

Inverary is a pretty town with fairytale castle. Aside from a dower Edwardian church the architecture is very sama same as specified by Lord Argyle and all white my. The castle is built in green schist that changes colour with the weather and the light. Sits on the side of Loch Fyne.

Kilchurn castle, I think on the side of Loch Awe. Was very picturesque. Jumped a bit when the just subsonic Typhoon overflow I guess on the way to Loosiemoth.

Travelled along Loch Awe famous for its oysters and submarine base. The base will be a tricky part of negotiations if Scotland gains independence.

Beautiful Oban for lunch. Lots of seafood options and photo ops.

The highlight on the way back to Glasgow was Glencoe which deserves two footprints. One for the Piper at the Three Sisters lookout and one for the rest. Separate footprint.Read more
TravelerI liked Inverary too!!
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Day 3
Thursday, September 7, 2023
☁️ 25 °C
Altitude: 32 m
Scotland Glen Coe 56.67179, -5.08195656°40’18” N 5°4’55” W
Highland tour Glencoe
September 7, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Glencoe has a sad history the Clan MacDonald was massacred by William III in 1692.

The valley is a very long and spectacular carved by glaciers and surrounded by craggy peaks. The visitors centre is very good, there are insights into the history, a display on alpine rescue, any a wonderful recreation of turf family home.

Driving away from the town we pass the Harry Potter film site of Hagred's hut. We stop at the Three Sisters lookout where the ambiance is enhance by a busking piper. Further along is the Glencoe Ski centre. At the top of the valley very extensive peat bogs.Read more
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Day 4
Friday, September 8, 2023 at 7:00 AM
☁️ 15 °C
Altitude: 16 m
Scotland Glasgow Queen Street Railway Station 55.861155, -4.25016955°51’40” N 4°15’1” W
Glasgow Street Art
September 8, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
They quite rightly make a fuss about it. I highly recommend it. One of the prominent artists is Smug, aka Sam Bates from Melbourne.

Download the excellent Street Art guide and map and off you go. Good way the explore and get your bearings.Read more
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Day 4
Friday, September 8, 2023 at 7:00 PM
☀️ 25 °C
Altitude: 33 m
Scotland Glasgow Queen Street Railway Station 55.863669, -4.24834155°51’49” N 4°14’54” W
Friday night in Glasgow, lots going on.
September 8, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Friday 8th September Glasgow at night Waxy O'Connor's pub. Crazy building so many different levels with the performance visible from a number of then. Lots of quirky memorable around the place.

I do have a nice performance video that doesn't want to load.Read more
TravelerWow, looks amazing!
10/2/23Reply
TravelerA pub chain but a fun venue, lots of people and the salad was very fresh and nice.
10/2/23Reply
TravelerAnd here was me thinking you'd spent the evening in a church.
10/3/23Reply
TravelerNot likely.
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Day 5
Saturday, September 9, 2023
⛅ 25 °C
Altitude: 58 m
Scotland Calton Hill 55.956781, -3.17617255°57’24” N 3°10’34” W
Glasgow to Edinburgh
September 9, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Checked out of the Royal Alexandra Hospital, such caring people. Train to the Edinburgh hotel on Royal Parade (map above).

Dinner with Christine, Doc, Cathy and Rolf.
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Day 6
Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 10:00 AM
☁️ 18 °C
Altitude: 41 m
Scotland The Falkirk Wheel 56.000863, -3.84102956°0’3” N 3°50’28” W
Falkirk Wheel Time lapse video 1
September 10, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Time-lapse of the wheel
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Day 6
Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 11:01 PM
🌧 19 °C
Altitude: 54 m
Scotland The Falkirk Wheel 56.000476, -3.84174456°0’2” N 3°50’30” W
Falkirk Wheel Time lapse video 2
September 10, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ 🌧 19 °C
Time-lapse of the Lock at the bottom pond at the Falkirk Wheel.
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Day 6
Sunday, September 10, 2023
☁️ 18 °C
Altitude: 20 m
Scotland Lossiemouth East Beach 57.721167, -3.29233657°43’16” N 3°17’32” W
Edinburgh to Loosiemoth
September 10, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Early morning walk up the Royal Mile. Stayed in the Voco hotel on Royal Terrace.Picked up by Cathy and Rolf for the drive to Loosiemoth.
First stop was the masterpiece of engineering the Falkirk Wheel.
Drive through Sterling, spotted a working Breaded Collie. Snaps of Wallace monument.
Heaven Scent cafe, Milnathort for lunch most enjoyable.
Then over the Cairngorms, rather spectacular scenery.
Dinner at Catch 79 was really nice.Read more
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Day 7
Monday, September 11, 2023
☁️ 14 °C
Altitude: 303 m
Scotland Loch Morlich 57.168229, -3.70522457°10’6” N 3°42’19” W
Aviemore and walk at Glenmore
September 11, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Coffee and very nice cannoli in Aviemore. Glenmore is just out of town. Walk to a Bothy, eight and a bit kilometres. Very scenic, took a slightly more challenging path on the way back.

Dinner at Catch 79 in Loosiemouth was delightful. There was a little bit of dropsie during dinner, oops.Read more
TravelerGood to see a few more posts. Scotland is lovely, and you have certainly found glorious weather. We're enjoying the journey.
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Day 8
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 at 1:00 PM
⛅ 14 °C
Altitude: 121 m
Scotland Strath Nairn 57.473063, -4.07368857°28’23” N 4°4’25” W
Clava Cairns near Culloden
September 12, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
DONE, consider camera or edited photos.

Clava Cairns are a well-preserved Bronze Age cemetery complex of passage graves; ring cairns, kerb cairns and standing stones in a beautiful setting.

A hugely significant and exceptionally well preserved prehistoric site, Clava Cairns is a fantastic example of the distant history of Highland Scotland, dating back about 4,000 years.Read more
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Day 9
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
☁️ 13 °C
Altitude: 6 m
Scotland Chapel Taing 58.926554, -2.84319358°55’36” N 2°50’35” W
On the way to the Orkney bound for Sebay
September 13, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Coffee stop at a very pretty town Golspie, lots of colours in the planter boxes. Brora looked rather splendid.

At the port there was a 1954 Bentley R type saloon.

All cars and team together on the ferry from Scrabster to Stromness. Next stop Sebay mill.Read more
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Day 10
Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 10:30 AM
🌬 14 °C
Altitude: 20 m
Scotland St. Magnus Cathedral 58.981582, -2.95953358°58’54” N 2°57’34” W
St Magnus, the Earl & Bishop's palace
September 14, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ 🌬 14 °C
This 1137 built Cathedral is spectacular. The weathered sandstone entrance reflects its age. A tremendous amount of history inside. An interesting brochure on graffiti and its ancient history. The Earl's and Bishop's palace is an impressive ruin. The Earl appears not to have been a very nice person, ended up being beheaded.Read more
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Day 10
Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 12:00 PM
🌬 14 °C
Altitude: 17 m
Scotland Row Head 59.048695, -3.34179459°2’55” N 3°20’30” W
Skara Brea
September 14, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ 🌬 14 °C
Delightful morning tea and scones at Tea For Two at Birsay. Enjoyed the Scottish breakfast tea.

The site is older than Stonehenge and the pyramids, it is 5000 years old or 3100 BCE. The Neolithic village, the houses were preserved by the cover of sand dunes and only discovered in the 1850s. The is very well organised, starts with a very informative exhibition covering many facets of the original structures and insights into there day to day lives. Then there is a replica home, this is important as it protects the originals from the hordes of tourists.

Very keen windsurfer, out jumping waves.Read more
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Day 10
Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 1:30 PM
🌬 15 °C
Altitude: 13 m
Scotland Bay of Skaill 59.047682, -3.33659459°2’52” N 3°20’12” W
Skaill house
September 14, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ 🌬 15 °C
Included is entry to Skaill house. Overlooking the spectacular Bay of Skaill, Skaill House is the finest 17th Century mansion in Orkney. Home of William Graham Watt, 7th Laird of Breckness, who unearthed the World famous neolithic village of Skara Brae in 1850. Originally built in 1620 for the bishop George Graham.Read more
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Day 10
Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 3:00 PM
🌬 15 °C
Altitude: 8 m
Scotland Lamb Holm 58.889987, -2.89247558°53’24” N 2°53’33” W
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Churchill barriers and Italian chapel
September 14, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ 🌬 15 °C
Churchill barriers, sunken ships and concrete blocks. It was the sinking of HMS Royal Oak more than 80 years ago that set in motion plans to build these four concrete causeways. A German U-boat crawled into Scapa Flow in October 1939 and fired torpedoes at the slumbering battleship, resulting in the loss of 834 lives. Now the causeway are important links to the mainland to isles of Lamb Holm, Glimps Holm, Burray and South Ronaldsay.

Italian chapel, amazing what was achieved with a couple of Nissan hits. These POWs labour was used in building of the Churchill barriers.

Lunch at the Murray Arms Hotel at the aptly named St Margaret's Hope on the island of South Ronaldsay. Crab meat sandwich, more than enough for two. With a pint of Orkney Gold.Read more
Traveler Nice pictures Sando, but where are you? Now.
9/28/23Reply
TravelerStill on the mainland (the big island) of the Orkneys.
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Day 10
Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 3:00 PM
🌬 15 °C
Altitude: 18 m
Scotland Stenness 59.001648, -3.22989659°0’6” N 3°13’48” W
Ring of Brodgar, Stenness Standing Stone
September 14, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ 🌬 15 °C
The Ring of Brodgar Stone Circle and Henge is an enormous ceremonial site dating back to the 3rd millennium BC. A massive stone circle, originally consisting of 60 stones – 36 survive today. At least 13 prehistoric burial mounds. A large rock-cut ditch surrounding the stone circle.

The Stones of Stenness today consist of four upright stones up to 6m in height in a circle that originally held 12 stones. The focus of the interior was a large hearth. The stones were encircled by a large ditch and bank, the form of which has been lost over time by ploughing.

Lunch at Stromness. Lovely soup in a riverside cafe.Read more
TravelerShould there be more?
9/29/23Reply
TravelerAt least the original twelve at Stenness. The Ring of Brodgar needs a drone to get the lot.
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Day 11
Friday, September 15, 2023 at 10:30 AM
☁️ 12 °C
Altitude: Sea level
Scotland Lyness 58.833538, -3.19151958°50’1” N 3°11’29” W
Ferry arrival at the isle of Hoy
September 15, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Time-lapse of arrival, a bit of a laugh.
This is the ferry from Houton.
TravelerGreat video!!
9/28/23Reply
TravelerLooks very dangerous for the workers.
9/29/23Reply
TravelerOnly in time lapse.
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Day 11
Friday, September 15, 2023 at 11:00 AM
☁️ 12 °C
Altitude: 4 m
Scotland Lyness 58.834131, -3.19677558°50’3” N 3°11’48” W
Scarpa Flow museum, Lynness, Hoy Island
September 15, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Wonderful museum at Lyness. Such an important part of history in both world wars. The facilities were very extensive, particularly in WW2. Out are the propeller, bearing and shaft of the HMS Hampshire. German naval bow anchor removed from one of the German warships scuttled in Scapa Flow on the 21 June 1919 at end of WW1.Read more
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Day 11
Friday, September 15, 2023 at 1:30 PM
☁️ 13 °C
Altitude: Sea level
Scotland Houton 58.916651, -3.18460758°54’60” N 3°11’5” W
Ferry return to Houton from Hoy
September 15, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Time-lapse video of the return arrival at Hoy.
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Day 12
Saturday, September 16, 2023
⛅ 13 °C
Altitude: 45 m
Scotland Stromness Ferry Port 58.966358, -3.29637158°57’59” N 3°17’47” W
Orkney To Queensferry
September 16, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Ferry from Stromness to Scrabster. Then drive down the A9 towards Edinburgh, back over the Cairngorms.
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Day 12
Saturday, September 16, 2023
Altitude: 17 m
Scotland Queensferry 55.989949, -3.38517655°59’24” N 3°23’7” W
Queensferry, Clyde Bridges. Dalmeny
September 16, 2023 in Scotland
Ferry from Stromness to Scrabster. Then drive down the A9 towards Edinburgh, back over the Cairngorms.

Queensferry, Clyde bridges, historic hotel. The Hawes Inn. Below the hill from Dalmeny where Rolf's mother's family comes from.Read more
TravelerGood to see the gaps being filled in.
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TravelerI think I have added all the text notes I have, just need to go through the photos and add some.
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Day 13
Sunday, September 17, 2023
☁️ 17 °C
Altitude: 24 m
England Newcastle upon Tyne Town Wall 54.969908, -1.60501854°58’12” N 1°36’18” W
Newcastle upon Tyne
September 17, 2023 in England ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Walked across the Millennium bridge. There was an extensive Sunday market along the Nth Quayside. Lots of good stuff and a wide food selection. We followed the directions from a Gordie YouTube, up Earl street to the Earl Grey monument, past the Theatre Royal, through the lovely Central Market. Loved the Waterstones bookshop across from Greys monument.

We did a lot walking, Margy did really well.Read more
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