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Lots of irrelevant threads being fed here lately, so I thought I'd be
really weird and start one on topic 8-) I'm om Orkney Mainland now and due to visit, among other goodies, Skara Brae today. Saturday I went castle-hunting near Aberdeen, beginning with Dunnottar, which is sited magnificently. . .reaching which is really hard on ancient legs 8-) The other castles I "bagged" were easier to reach. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad |
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On 5/2/2011 4:04 AM, Erilar wrote:
Lots of irrelevant threads being fed here lately, so I thought I'd be really weird and start one on topic 8-) I'm om Orkney Mainland now and due to visit, among other goodies, Skara Brae today. Saturday I went castle-hunting near Aberdeen, beginning with Dunnottar, which is sited magnificently. . .reaching which is really hard on ancient legs 8-) The other castles I "bagged" were easier to reach. I'm looking forward to your trip reports! |
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Martin wrote:
On Mon, 2 May 2011 08:04:16 +0000 (UTC), Erilar wrote: Lots of irrelevant threads being fed here lately, so I thought I'd be really weird and start one on topic 8-) I'm om Orkney Mainland now and due to visit, among other goodies, Skara Brae today. Saturday I went castle-hunting near Aberdeen, beginning with Dunnottar, which is sited magnificently. . .reaching which is really hard on ancient legs 8-) The other castles I "bagged" were easier to reach. No iPad photos? :-) IPad 1 Hundreds of them with my camera, however 8-) -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad |
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On 2011-05-02 03:04:16 -0500, Erilar said:
Lots of irrelevant threads being fed here lately, so I thought I'd be really weird and start one on topic 8-) I'm om Orkney Mainland now and due to visit, among other goodies, Skara Brae today. Saturday I went castle-hunting near Aberdeen, beginning with Dunnottar, which is sited magnificently. . .reaching which is really hard on ancient legs 8-) The other castles I "bagged" were easier to reach. Erilar, if you like that you may also like the Knap of Howar. It's two rooms similar to Skara Brae on Papa Westray. It's more interesting because it's something like 5,500 years old. Also, the flight from Westray (reached from Mainlaid) to Papa Westray is something like two minutes in duration, the shortest regularly-scheduled flight in the world. Possibly while you are there, you can hire a boat to the Holm of Papa Westray off to the east, where there is a big burial mound. I was not able to do this myself, at the boatman had his boat upside down in preparation for painting, at the time I visited. The walk around the southeast coast was interesting too, just watch for the dive-bombing seabirds. -- Dan Stephenson http://web.mac.com/stepheda Travel pages for Europe and the U.S.A. (and New Zealand too) |
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"Erilar" wrote in message ... Lots of irrelevant threads being fed here lately, so I thought I'd be really weird and start one on topic 8-) I'm om Orkney Mainland now and due to visit, among other goodies, Skara Brae today. Saturday I went castle-hunting near Aberdeen, beginning with Dunnottar, which is sited magnificently. . .reaching which is really hard on ancient legs 8-) The other castles I "bagged" were easier to reach. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad Actually the past couple of months has not been too bad. Most of the rubbish appears to have given up and some on topic stuff is finally appearing again. I was about to get rid of newsgroups but have decided to hang around for a bit longer. Gerrit - Oz |
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Dan Stephenson wrote:
On 2011-05-02 03:04:16 -0500, Erilar said: Lots of irrelevant threads being fed here lately, so I thought I'd be really weird and start one on topic 8-) I'm om Orkney Mainland now and due to visit, among other goodies, Skara Brae today. Saturday I went castle-hunting near Aberdeen, beginning with Dunnottar, which is sited magnificently. . .reaching which is really hard on ancient legs 8-) The other castles I "bagged" were easier to reach. Erilar, if you like that you may also like the Knap of Howar. It's two rooms similar to Skara Brae on Papa Westray. It's more interesting because it's something like 5,500 years old. Also, the flight from Westray (reached from Mainlaid) to Papa Westray is something like two minutes in duration, the shortest regularly-scheduled flight in the world. Possibly while you are there, you can hire a boat to the Holm of Papa Westray off to the east, where there is a big burial mound. I was not able to do this myself, at the boatman had his boat upside down in preparation for painting, at the time I visited. The walk around the southeast coast was interesting too, just watch for the dive-bombing seabirds. That does sound interesting, but my week is already packed and includes two island trips as it is, to Rousay and Hoy. I'm the whole "group", but my guide, who is terrific and a real archaeologist, has as much set up as I can handle already. I'm having a great trip 8-) -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad |
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"Martin" wrote in message ... On Tue, 3 May 2011 14:16:52 +0800, "Gerrit" wrote: "Erilar" wrote in message ... Lots of irrelevant threads being fed here lately, so I thought I'd be really weird and start one on topic 8-) I'm om Orkney Mainland now and due to visit, among other goodies, Skara Brae today. Saturday I went castle-hunting near Aberdeen, beginning with Dunnottar, which is sited magnificently. . .reaching which is really hard on ancient legs 8-) The other castles I "bagged" were easier to reach. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad Actually the past couple of months has not been too bad. Most of the rubbish appears to have given up and some on topic stuff is finally appearing again. I was about to get rid of newsgroups but have decided to hang around for a bit longer. Gerrit - Oz Welcome back Gerrit! We passed through Pernis early yesterday morning. -- Martin Through or past? Takes a bit of getting in to. :-) Gerrit - Oz |
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Could anyone tell me the actual rudder travel when the cables are hooked up? Thanks in advance happy building.
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"Martin" wrote in message ... On Tue, 3 May 2011 17:10:38 +0800, "Gerrit" wrote: "Martin" wrote in message . .. On Tue, 3 May 2011 14:16:52 +0800, "Gerrit" wrote: "Erilar" wrote in message ... Lots of irrelevant threads being fed here lately, so I thought I'd be really weird and start one on topic 8-) I'm om Orkney Mainland now and due to visit, among other goodies, Skara Brae today. Saturday I went castle-hunting near Aberdeen, beginning with Dunnottar, which is sited magnificently. . .reaching which is really hard on ancient legs 8-) The other castles I "bagged" were easier to reach. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad Actually the past couple of months has not been too bad. Most of the rubbish appears to have given up and some on topic stuff is finally appearing again. I was about to get rid of newsgroups but have decided to hang around for a bit longer. Gerrit - Oz Welcome back Gerrit! We passed through Pernis early yesterday morning. Through or past? Takes a bit of getting in to. :-) Past as fast as possible. It was very whiffy. -- Martin I can imagine that. Now you have one of the reasons my parents took me to Australia when I was 8 years old. Never been sorry that they did. Been back a few times though. Last time was May last year. Also drove to Norway and Sweden then. Much nicer than Pernis. Gerrit - Oz |
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Martin wrote:
On Mon, 2 May 2011 20:25:01 +0000 (UTC), Erilar wrote: Martin wrote: On Mon, 2 May 2011 08:04:16 +0000 (UTC), Erilar wrote: Lots of irrelevant threads being fed here lately, so I thought I'd be really weird and start one on topic 8-) I'm om Orkney Mainland now and due to visit, among other goodies, Skara Brae today. Saturday I went castle-hunting near Aberdeen, beginning with Dunnottar, which is sited magnificently. . .reaching which is really hard on ancient legs 8-) The other castles I "bagged" were easier to reach. No iPad photos? :-) IPad 1 Hundreds of them with my camera, however 8-) Are you going to share them with us? You picked a good year/time to visit Orkney. I take it you have bright sunshine and a strongish wind too? My friends who visited Orkney last year had nothing but rain. Good description. I've been very lucky so far with weather. It's been much better than what I was braced for! -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad |
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