Neolithic Whisky Run
6 years ago I took a trip to Orkney I Scotland. The idea came to me in a supermarket. I was buying a bottle of Islay malt whisky and the inspiration came to me in a flash! I’d been watching lots of TV shows on the Discovery Channel about Neolithic man, in particular, a village in Orkney called Skara Brae; a whole village from 5000 years ago.
So there I was, standing in ASDA (UK version of Walmart) with a bottle of malt in my hand and the thought came; “why not buy the next bottle of this stuff directly from the distillery in Islay and take in some Neolithic sites in Orkney on the trip?”. If your geography is good, you’ll know that Orkney and Islay are separated by some considerable distance, but you can put this down to my rather slow learning process.
In my quest to visit Sakra Brae, I came across the Ring of Brogar and the Stones of Stenness in Orkney which are currently featured in my gallery. I just happened to be there on 21st of June (the summer solstice) and a local organization for stay cats had organized an event to form a human ring around the stones.
But the main thing from this trip was the powerful effect of being close to these stones and the sense of presence of the human beings who constructed these monuments, with 14 ton stones, some 5000 years ago.
Either that or it was the whisky kicking in!
So there I was, standing in ASDA (UK version of Walmart) with a bottle of malt in my hand and the thought came; “why not buy the next bottle of this stuff directly from the distillery in Islay and take in some Neolithic sites in Orkney on the trip?”. If your geography is good, you’ll know that Orkney and Islay are separated by some considerable distance, but you can put this down to my rather slow learning process.
In my quest to visit Sakra Brae, I came across the Ring of Brogar and the Stones of Stenness in Orkney which are currently featured in my gallery. I just happened to be there on 21st of June (the summer solstice) and a local organization for stay cats had organized an event to form a human ring around the stones.
But the main thing from this trip was the powerful effect of being close to these stones and the sense of presence of the human beings who constructed these monuments, with 14 ton stones, some 5000 years ago.
Either that or it was the whisky kicking in!