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hello , can anyone offer any advice, tips, recommendations to a couple driving to Mainland Orkney in terms of accommodation, sites and sights not to miss and recommended clothing please. We have been warned that it will be wild wet and windy so prepared for variable weather. Thank you.
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Elphinstone's Army Wrote:

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> hello , can anyone offer any advice, tips,

> recommendations to a couple driving to Mainland

> Orkney in terms of accommodation, sites and sights

> not to miss and recommended clothing please. We

> have been warned that it will be wild wet and

> windy so prepared for variable weather. Thank

> you.


More or less regardless of the time of year there are winds,in the spring/summer, they are westerly and can be strong.


I would advise a wind / shower proof jacket/ coat.


Outside of Stromness or Kirkwall, the sights are archaeological / natural.


As for accommodation, look up hotels / guest houses /b&b's / camp sites

Skara Brae is a must. Long drive; probably 10 hours to Aberdeen without breaks (12 with one every 4 hours?) then 6 hours on the ferry arriving late around 2300 from memory.


Better to break it up with an overnight somewhere. Other option is ferry from far north but that's probably 15 hour drive. Or train/flight to Aberdeen, ferry then rent a car in Kirkwall.


Clothing...proper raincoat, woolly jumpers with cotton t-shirts/shirts, layer up; walking boots. It's not the arctic.


Ferrys: http://www.northlinkferries.co.uk/timetables/

What is that saying about what happens when you ask a certain type of question?


Elphinstone's Army Wrote:

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> gosh pipsky thanks, we could not have done it

> without you and your erudition, gosh thanks.. camp

> sites, gosh, would never have thought ..shower

> proof jacket, gosh yes ..... thanks

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