Hoy Youth Hostel
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Hoy Youth Hostel

Youth Hostel, Hoy, Orkney, Scotland
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Hoy Youth Hostel has a mud floor and no gas or electricity. On the upside, it’s free of charge, has great views and a magnificent dry stone wall in front of it.

I was so entranced with this place – its mists and melancholy beauty – that I was in a kind of photographic daze, where everywhere I turned there was something magic.

Location: the island of Hoy, Orkney, Scotland. Camera: iPhone. (more…)

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Betty Corrigall’s Grave
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Betty Corrigall’s Grave

© www.anniewrightphotography.com. Betty Corrigall's Grave, Hoy, Orkney, Scotland
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Betty Corrigall’s grave is possibly the loneliest place in the world. As a young woman in the late 18th century, she was abandoned by her lover when he discovered she was pregnant.

Shunned by the local community and with no way out, Betty killed both herself and her unborn child. Their grave is located on wild and unconsecrated moorland on the Orcadian island of Hoy.  (more…)

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The Dwarfie Stane
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The Dwarfie Stane

Dwarfie Stane, bad weather, photography, monument, Hoy, Orkney, Scotland
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The Dwarfie Stane is 5,000 years old and located in a lonely valley on the island of Hoy in Orkney. The tiny entrance leads to an inner chamber, which contains a stone structure that looks like a bed. For me, it was a unexpectedly serene experience, and I wish I could have slept there.
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Stromness Harbour
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Stromness Harbour

Stromness Harbour during a sudden storm. Fortunately I was sheltering indoors when I took this photo! Location: Stromness, Mainland, Orkney, Scotland History of Stromness Harbour Stromness’ real development as a major…

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Stromness
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Stromness

Stromness, Orkney. The author and poet George Mackay Brown once wrote that the town’s ‘streets uncoiled like a sailor’s rope’, and it is to these streets that I will be returning on Friday. Can’t…

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Broch of Gurness
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Broch of Gurness

The Broch of Gurness as twilight falls and the spirits rise on Mainland, Orkney. History The Broch of Gurness is an Iron Age broch village on the northwest coast of Mainland Orkney in Scotland overlooking Eynhallow Sound, about 15 miles…

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