For nearly four weeks from 18 December 2009 Orkney was, most unusually, icebound: the three or four inches of snow which had fallen in December froze solid and stayed frozen in a way never seen for about 30 years. Daytime would see a slight thaw, then back would come the frost with the result that [...]
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Otters
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Back in the dim and distant days of 1995 a new house took shape alongside the old flag-roofed croft of Rickla. Unlike the croft, this new house was orientated so that most of it’s windows faced south-west, where there were panoramic views over the fields, lochs and hills of the World Heritage Site and was [...]
welcome, visitor!
Posted in about Rickla on May 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
after fifteen years, we have a new web site. Do you like it? Our last site was set up when we were running Rickla as a b&b and like the house it had grown over the years. Many people loved it – but much has changed since 1996 and we felt it did n0t really reflect [...]
