Orkneys Skara Brae shortlisted as UKs best heritage site
Orkney’s Skara Brae shortlisted as UK’s best heritage site
Skara Brae, Orkney. PIC Donald MacLeod/TSPL ALISON CAMPSIE
11:04 Wednesday 08 February 2017
The prehistoric village of Skara Brae on Orkney is in the running to be named the best heritage site in the UK.
The 5,000-year-old settlement is the only Scottish visitor attraction on the shortlist drawn up by travel writer Bill Bryson for the BBC Countryfile Magazine Awards.
Bryson described Skara Brae as “miraculously preserved” and said it looked as it had been vacated “only yesterday.”
He said: “Orkney has the greatest concentration of archaeological sites in Scotland, but none is more arresting than this miraculously preserved Neolithic village.
Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/news/orkney-s-skara-brae-shortlisted-as-uk-s-best-heritage-site-1-4361031
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30 years ago, and yes, Scara Brae is amazing!
Actually, the Orkneys are among the most impressive places of Europe. I really loved it.
But be careful in case you get seasick easily, the sea from Thurso to Orkney is always very disturbed. Or so I've been told. But that was in April, so maybe in summer it is less stormy.
I like to go back to my past Neolithic life! 
