On a recent trip to Great Britain, I decided at the last minute to snip two days off from my time in London and go somewhere I've never been before: the Orkney Islands. Perched just an hour's ferry ...

Salt on the breeze, stone underfoot, and shop windows that still change with the seasons: this town moves at human speed. On ...

Hidden beneath sand for 4,000 years, Skara Brae is Europe’s best-preserved Neolithic village. Built before Stonehenge, its stone beds, dressers, and drains reveal how prehistoric families lived on ...

Why I went: We’re interested in the lives of ancient peoples. But the August 2014 National Geographic article “Before Stonehenge” was the deciding factor. Don’t miss: Take in all the neolithic sites ...

Could this beautiful island manor, located next to a world-famous Neolithic site and above a Pictish burial ground, be the ...

Seabirds wheel, red sandstone glows, and a single street funnels island life into one colourful spine of shops and stories. In 2019, Kirkwall’s main ...

LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) - Britain's Orkney Islands, an archipelago about 10 miles off the north coast of Scotland, is considering "alternative forms of governance" which could include becoming part ...

A Scottish couple are selling a 19th-century church that they converted into vacation apartments. Kirkdale Apartments in Evie, Orkney, is on the market for £525,000, or around $650,900. The couple ...

Orkney Islands Council has secured a £62.1m loan from the National Wealth Fund to build its six-turbine Quanterness wind farm ...

A project which helps people struggling with low mood during the winter months check out some sunlight from their local ...