Day 13 (2nd July 2022)

 YIKES! At lunch today after visiting the exceptionally lovely old cathedral in Kirkwall, I realised that there was still one place to visit on the Orkney Islands after all. Had anyone noticed, I thought? Luckily we had some time to kill, although it did mean missing out on visiting Skara Brae, one of the best preserved neolithic villages to be found in the UK.

The weather for most of the day was positively dreich with visibility no further than you could toss a caber so actually being able to photograph my almost forgotten Germinal CCXXIV place was practically impossible. At one point Guy suggested I just point my phone any old where, but I'm determined to at least try to get to all 116 places. So stop #30

RUFF REEF

I know, it's a long shot (quite literally). Somewhere out in the mist is the light structure that is Ruff Reef. It is actually situated off the coast of South Walls - if you were to stand on Cantick Head (by the lighthouse in fact) and look out across Scapa Flow to where I am standing, Ruff Reef would be directly in front of you. Trouble is, it was almost 7 miles away from me, so totally invisible in the pic.

Provenance;

Well, it's the best I could do!

In other news, that cathedral I was talking about - it was a masterpiece of Norman architecture and we were both awestruck. 

We also visited the WWII Prisoner of War Italian Chapel which was very moving.

Guy also went for another swim, this time in Loch of Harray (freshwater);

Supper in Stromness and now we have a couple of hours to kill waiting for our ferry, so I thought I'd catch up on this.

Allons-y 

Douglas Germinal CCXXIV Brain over and out