Off the beaten track in Orkney

Off the beaten track in Orkney

The Old Beacon of North Ronaldsay. Orkney is a place of innumerable wonders great and small. Most visitors tend to gravitate towards a handful of well-known sites like Skara Brae, Scapa Flow, and the Broch of Gurness. Across the archipelago, however, are historic sites and natural landscapes of staggering variety and character which relatively few tend to tread. These are a few of my favourites, all freshly visited during a month-long stay in Fe…