By the time Tony co-founded Lonely Planet Publications in 1973, he already had the travel bug. And ever since, travel and discovery have been at the heart of his life and career.
◄ Having been to the Orkney Islands and definitely liked that strange collection of windy Scottish outposts I read two Orkney books. I really enjoyed Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun – Orkney girl abandons dull island life, moves to London, gets into partying, clubbing and a...
Part 1 covered Mainland, the largest island of the Orkney group with the ‘capital’ Kirkwall and the arrival point for many visitors Stromness. Plus the islands of Lamb Holm, Burray and South Ronaldsay, linked to Mainland by the causeways across the Churchill Barriers,...
I’ve been meaning to go there for years and finally arrived on the scatter of islands just north of the northern tip of Scotland. Which is not John o’Groats, although that’s often looked upon as where Scotland ends, the other end of the country from Land’s End, 1407km...
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