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[email protected]>, Hugh Spicer
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[email protected]') wrote:
> Anyone have any recent experience cycling on the
> Orkney Isles ?
Yup. Only on Mainland, though. Mainland is mostly fairly
flat but amazingly windswept - a friend who lives two miles
inland has to scrape salt off his house windows every
spring. There are virtually no trees. It's very thoroughly
farmed, but is nevertheless the only place I've ever seen
and heard corncrakes. The archaeology is amazing and well
worth exploring. Mainland isn't that large and you can get
anywhere and back on a bike in an afternoon - which makes
bicycles a good way of getting about.
Hoy is contrastingly extremely high, steep and rugged with
extremely dramatic cliffs. There's a wee road round the flow
side of the island but I don't know what it would be like to
cycle. I haven't been to the smaller islands.
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