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Old Houses
Jun. 30th, 2018 04:01 pmI started to write this post a month ago, while we were on Mainland in Orkney; then things intervened, and I didn't finish it. Which gives me the opportunity to complete it with more photos than I would have done, had I completed the original version. It was choosing the two photos that I originally planned to use which gave me the title, and then the more I wrote, the more I realised how many old houses there were in the story.
This was the day after that evening by the loch; we were staying at the Barony Hotel. That's not what made me think about old houses, though it is old enough (they have a display showing water colours by a lady who stayed there in 1902). The things that feel old-fashioned are not, of course, the old hotel, but what must be 1960s additions and improvements. But you won't hear any complaints from me about somewhere that gives me smoked haddock and a poached (duck) egg for breakfast!
Our morning visit, though, was to the seriously old houses of the stone age village at Skara Brae:
( More old houses under the cut - but none as old as that one: )
This was the day after that evening by the loch; we were staying at the Barony Hotel. That's not what made me think about old houses, though it is old enough (they have a display showing water colours by a lady who stayed there in 1902). The things that feel old-fashioned are not, of course, the old hotel, but what must be 1960s additions and improvements. But you won't hear any complaints from me about somewhere that gives me smoked haddock and a poached (duck) egg for breakfast!
Our morning visit, though, was to the seriously old houses of the stone age village at Skara Brae:
( More old houses under the cut - but none as old as that one: )
