Very early start for us as had to be on the ferry at 7.20 am –another 1 hour trip from the Orkney mainland to Westray–quite calm. Met at Westray by our booked tour –turned out to be just we 4 with our driver Alec, a most interesting and cheerful 70 yr old local who was probably a relative of Lyndsays. Several highlights –meeting other relatives ( distant) on farms where ancestors were born, finding the headstone of William and Ann Rendall, Georges parent’s and Lyndsays g-g-g-g grandparents, in the Pierwall Lady Kirk graveyard and seeing the seabirds soaring and nesting at Noup Head, a huge cliff face. No trees, gently rolling sculptured hills, huge skies ever changing.
Arrived back in Kirkwall in time for Huddersfield Choral Society concert in 11th Century Viking St Magnus Cathedral at 10 pm –brilliant –came out while still light at 11.30 pm.
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