The Last Great Wild Places Tour 4: The Orkney and Shetland Islands

[tanzanite]

The Heart of Neolithic OrkneyEver since Dairena Ní Cinneide told me about the word "dúchas" in Irish, I've been obsessed with it. It's defined as "heritage," "patrimony," or "birthright," but for me, it is that sense of rootedness and connection I felt when I put my hands on the house where my grandfather, and his father were born, and walked away

Comments

[mvrdrk]

What a fantastic trip you had!

[tanzanite]

Thanks! It was a lot of work - we drove about 2000 miles, but that meant we had a lot of freedom to go anywhere, including on unpaved two-tracks that we would never have driven in a rental car.

[mvrdrk]

I'm impressed you took your car with you!! On a ferry, I assume?