Today activities tailored according to each one's shape: Debbie and Benoît decided to take 'a day off' from the holidays, in order for Debbie to recover from headaches...
Le reste de la tribu a exploré la côté Nord-Ouest de l'île principale.
The rest of the tribe went and explored the Northwest coast of Mainland.
N' allez surtout pas confondre 'brochs' et 'broughs' !!!
Above all don't mistake 'brochs' for 'broughs' !!!
Le Broch de Gurness - comme tous les brochs - est une tour à double paroi - entre lesquelles serpente un escalier en colimaçon. C'est un peu l'équivalent d'un donjon, autour duquel s'ordonnent des habitations.
Broch of Gurness - as all brochs - is a double wall tower; an helix staircase fills the void between the walls. The Broch is kind od a keep, around which dwellings are being found.
The site is really picturesque; this one is the best Broch we ever saw ! However Brochs are recent (500BC - 800AD)... not to be compared with the Neolithic remnants of the previous days.
Les broughs (burroughs) sont des bourgs, des hameaux - bref des ensembles de plusieurs habitations. Le Brough de Birsay, s' ordonne plutôt autour des ruines d'une chapelle. Le site est également
remarquable - sur une île à laquelle on n'accéder qu'à marée basse. Mais il n'a décidément pas l'ampleur du Broch précédent...
Broughs are burroughs or hamlets - sets of several dwellings. In the Brough of Birsay, the houses are set all around a small chapel. The site is also lovely - on a tidal island. But the whole hasn't got the appeal of Broch of Gurness.
Fortunately, a food truck suddenly appeared on the car park, to sell crab and lobster sandwiches or salads; we robbed it literally !
Our granddaughters being fed up with old stones, we drove to the charming harbor of Stromness... In Julia's cafe, Julia wrote her postcards !!
Then we watched the ferry outbound to Scrabster (mainland Scotland) sail off.
La famille - réduite aux séniors - est allée admirer le site de Yesnabi, absolument magnifique avec cette lumière changeante, des épisodes de crachin alternant toutes les cinq minutes avec des rayons de soleil bas filtrés par les nuages.
The family - restricted to its senior members (???) - then admired the shore in Yesnabi; the show was fantastic with the changing sunlight, moments of dizzle alternating every five minutes, with the beams of a low sun being filtered by the clouds...On our way back, impossible not to stop at the Ring of Brodgar again - with so different a sunlight as the one of the day before ?!










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