On the Wednesday following the last Tuesday in January, Shetland shuts down. It is the only place in Scotland to have an ...

Jamie MacDougall presents a performance given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard at the St Magnus International Festival, Orkney. With music by Ives, Ravel and Shostakovich ...

His farmhouse museum still has some of the skulls he discovered. St. Magnus Cathedral. Orkney is part of Scotland, but don't be fooled: these islands are Viking territory. Their great monument is ...

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