Word: orkney
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...encounter an intense and complex malt, with unique characteristics ascribed to the distillery's coastal location. Purchase a bottle from the distillery's single-cask selection and it comes with a personalized label. HIGHLAND PARK: A 40-minute ferry ride from John o'Groats will land you on the Orkney Islands, home to the 208-year-old Highland Park distillery, tel: (44-1856) 874 619. The history of these remote islands has a strong Viking connection, and the wildlife (seals, otters, snipe) is abundant - but everyone's here for the drink. In summer months distillery tours run several times...
...challenge, though, so the ale is mostly Russian, German and, yes, Irish. But there are Scotch whisky brands aplenty and the menu tries hard to stay on theme. Full Duncan salad (named after the Highlander hero Duncan MacLeod) and Dundee lamb chop are on offer, as is an Orkney Island salad?although the menu acknowledges with disarming honesty that, while the calamari it's made of are very fresh, "O.K. maybe they're not brought in all the way from Scotland...
...challenge, though, so the ale is mostly Russian, German and, yes, Irish. But there are Scotch whisky brands aplenty and the menu tries hard to stay on theme. Full Duncan salad (named after the Highlander hero Duncan MacLeod) and Dundee lamb chop are on offer, as is an Orkney Island salad - although the menu acknowledges with disarming honesty that, while the calamari it's made of are very fresh, "O.K. maybe they're not brought in all the way from Scotland." The place draws a crowd of an emerging new generation of middle-class Russians. "The people who come...
...identity. Even living in London, I glory in my Cornish roots. I travel widely, but the only place where tears well up is when I cross the Tamar River, the boundary between Cornwall and the rest of England. Paul Cloutman London I am an outsider in Scotland 's remote Orkney Islands, where there is a huge effort to keep alive the old ways, language and mores that act as tourist magnets. Heritage is emphasized to such an extent that outsiders perceive themselves as unwelcome. The insistence on keeping the local identity alive creates problems as newcomers buy, for outrageous amounts...
Back in their Scandinavian homeland, the Vikings' descendants also united into kingdoms, ultimately establishing Norway, Sweden and Denmark and pursuing a history no more or less aggressive than that of any other Europeans. The transfer of the Orkney Islands from Danish to Scottish control in 1468, for example, came not as the result of a bloody battle but as part of a royal wedding dowry...