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An Orkney Saga

The psychogeography of the Orkney Islands | Standing stones on the Orkney Islands | An Orkney Saga by Tim Cooke

One summer, my father took us, Rob and I, to the Orkney Islands, to see the Viking burial sites, Pictish and Neolithic ruins, and to do some fishing. I was still in primary school – year five, I think. The first evening we arrived, we watched three locals unload their catch from a small motorboat onto the boggy shore of the lake we were staying on…

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