Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
Orkney, Scotland, UK; June 2009 The series on stone-age Orkney was one of my favourite things I did on the blog last year. But the day or two I spent playing tourist came after several days working on a story that is very much rooted in the modern era. The real reason I went to [...]
See where the real-life Flintstones lived at the 5,000-year-old village of Skara Brae in the third and final post on stone-age Orkney. Plus, I am giving away two copies of the DVD Standing with Stones – for details on how to enter, please see the end of the post. When the village of Skara Brae [...]
Part two in my series on stone-age Orkney is on the neolithic burial chamber of Maeshowe. Fairy Mounds feature heavily in the folk lore of Britain and Ireland. The mounds are believed to be the dwelling place of fairies (or faeries), elves or the sidhe. Fairy favour could bring prosperity and happiness but woe betide [...]
Orkney; June 2009 My friend and I were sightseeing around mainland Orkney when we stumbled across this circle of Standing Stones – or rather, Standing Pebbles! I don’t know who did this but it tickled my fancy as a joyful and creative response to the environment. I could imagine doing this with a child – [...]
Thousands of years ago in Britain people liked to erect giant stones in circles. Theories abound about how and why but no one is exactly sure. Was it religion? Was it science? Clearly it was a matter of some importance given that it would have taken considerable effort to achieve. Whatever the reason, the engineering [...]
Kirkwall, Orkney, UK; June 2009 In June 2009 work took me to the Orkney Islands, an archipelago off the north-west coast of Scotland. The Shetland Islands are nearby, a bit further north towards Norway. I took the ferry from Aberdeen and landed in Kirkwall on the Orkney “mainland”, a pretty little town with the lovely [...]
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