We just pulled up in the Orkneys. Our porthole is right at pier level so anyone we can see can see us too 🙂 Heading out shortly, short excursion day and then we’ll take some down time and go to Palo for dinner (yay).

Grey day out there at the moment. I suspect that is pretty common up here though.

Oh, forgot yesterday…we also stopped at a town and had an hour and a half to roam around. Not all that much to see. Pretty town. Looked for a place to get lunch and failed to find the first place we chose (looked as if it may have been closed). Wound up getting a pointer to a tea room attched to the local museum from a man handing out fliers on the street corner. Strange little museum, heavy on the taxidermy including one tableau of two seagulls. Lunch was not bad, but not great. Lorna had a BLT toasty and Ihad a baked potato slathered with chicken curry-like stuff…and of course tea 🙂 As with every place we’ve eaten off-ship service was slow.

Last night I ended up blogging from the coffe lounge on deck 9. In the other end of the place there was some sort of scotch tasting lesson going on. Seemed as if there were more people around and about late last night than the previous as all of the decent spots to settle down and type on the lower decks were occupied. Outside on the open decks was not an option as it was very cold and windy. Not all that dark though, seems as if the light stays in the sky far later than I’m used to up here…ten or ten thirty and there’s still a glow. I’m guessing perhaps we’re that far north.