A post on the Mountaineering Scotland website describes the sea stack off Orkney as a "classic climb". Boy, aged seven, climbs Old Man of Hoy sea stack Putting a name to those who have scaled the ...

Five thousand years ago the ancient inhabitants of Orkney—a fertile, green archipelago off the northern tip of modern-day Scotland—erected a complex of monumental buildings unlike anything ...

A seven-year-old boy from America has successfully climbed the Old Man of Hoy, off the coast of Orkney. Cody Weishaar scaled the 449ft (137m) sea stack with his father and three of his friends in ...

This mysterious sea ... Yesnaby Castle on the west mainland, and North Gaulton Castle which the eagle-eyed may recognise from a 1994 car advert for Rover. Further up the mainland coast, just north of ...

David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. On the windswept islands of Orkney, where the North Sea meets the Atlantic, a story every bit as gripping as the Norse sagas is ...

BBC Radio Orkney brings you 'Around Orkney' every weekday from 07:30-08:00. The programme features local news and weather, diary, the jobspot, mart report and postbag. Listen to the most recent show.

Castello Aragonese is a tiny island that rises straight out of the Tyrrhenian Sea like a tower ... take the elevator—up to a massive castle, which houses a display of medieval torture instruments.

The militant group targeted areas in Israel farther south than most of its previous attacks, reinforcing fears of broader regional conflict. For Middle Eastern Foes, Diplomacy Takes a Back Seat to ...

John Padgett, President of Princess Cruises, says "We are excited to introduce Spellbound by Magic Castle and take the art of magic around the world aboard the spectacular new Sun Princess.

Sep. 18, 2024 — The sea surface temperature in the Fijian archipelago in the southwestern Pacific is now at its maximum for more than 600 years. This finding is the ... Sep. 12, 2024 — Climate ...

There are lots of massive, historic, fortified buildings by the sea in countries all over the world; despite the title, the one in Lucy Strange’s highly anticipated second novel Our Castle By ...

This mysterious sea ... Yesnaby Castle on the west mainland, and North Gaulton Castle which the eagle-eyed may recognise from a 1994 car advert for Rover. Further up the mainland coast, just north of ...