Short but Oh Sooooo Sweeeeeeet !!!!

Sunday 12th June 2011

Making our way ever further north, and the best ever excuse to have a ride round Orkney.

The first ferry to Orkney is at 1200 noon so we only get a short visit, but its long enough to do what we need to do.
A visit to Orkney Wine is a necessity, thankfully the tasting glasses are only small, as there were a few tipples we just HAD to try.  Eventually we settled on Sloe wine this is a new one for us and of course no visit would be complete without a bottle of Black Portent, we even treated ourselves to some shot glasses, think the only purpose of them is that we would drink a wee bit less every time you visit the bottle.

Parked at the Wine shop

We were fortunate enough to be offered a look around the winery, Emile van Schayk the owner took us on a guided tour of the The Winery ohhhh all that wine what a place to be locked in for a few days, and such a lot of choice.

Italian Chapel  Lamb Holm     Orkney

The Italian Chapel is right next door to the winery and well worth a visit, its hard to believe that this beautiful building was created from two Nissen huts, some paint and the imagination of soldiers far from their home land.
We had a lot of time to kill before our very late evening ferry 2345hrs, dinner in the Skippers Bar, took our time, then we went for a wander, found a couple of geocaches, then headed out to the ferry terminal.  A couple of other bikes, some cars and a whole host of noisy kids all bound for Shetland.