's strange that someone like me who do not watch TV hardly ever if not for news and cartoons, and lighting has drawn inspiration from a documentary to choose the town of Helia. At the foot of Kilimanjaro I think the most beautiful of the entire transmission circuit television. Add a sentence that Licia Colo often said that that travel is a luxury that few can afford. For I am not I can afford. So many places to describe my / my novels I have to rely on tour guides, to documentaries, to Wikipedia and the fantastic Google map. All these sources reshuffled and seasoned by the imagination allowed me to describe cities and islands that do not always have personally visited. Just years ago, with a travel report of the same Licia, my eyes filled with a substance indefinitely. A liquid which was a mixture of tears, joy, happiness, unhappiness. Orkney Islands probably will not see it, but at that moment I realized that although it was not I there to Kirkwall, I could fantasize through the TV, make it fantastic for the refuge of Helia. Well to put it Colò: I traveled from the comfort of sitting in an armchair. So
Kirkwall was and is ...
It 's the most important town of the island of Mainland (via plane), the Orkney Islands archipelago consists of 67 islands of which 29 are inhabited. It must show the sources in the presence of Norwegian ninth century, who left the name KIRKJUVAGR then modified over time in the current name. News of the modern era of settlements dating back to 1046 and frequently goes back to 1137 when the building of the cathedral of St. Magnus. How decentralized seaside town that thrives on fishing and wool, Kirkwall was granted to the Scottish court in 1471. In addition to the basilica of red sandstone in the Gothic style with three naves turn to cruise, the remains of the Bishop's Palace in the twelfth century and the historical building of XV Tankerness houses the Museum.
Almost 14 miles from Kirkwall are remains of settlements like Stonehenge. The first is called Maes Howe and dates from around 2700 BC, not far from the Circle of Standing Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar 3000 also from 2700. The most famous archaeological site of Skara Brae is, however, full expression of the 3000 BC Neolithic Northern Europe.
Sources: Wikipedia heading Kirkwall
Great Britain and Ireland, Blue Guide Touring Club
Photo: Fionacat (C) on Deviantart
Kirkwall was and is ...
It 's the most important town of the island of Mainland (via plane), the Orkney Islands archipelago consists of 67 islands of which 29 are inhabited. It must show the sources in the presence of Norwegian ninth century, who left the name KIRKJUVAGR then modified over time in the current name. News of the modern era of settlements dating back to 1046 and frequently goes back to 1137 when the building of the cathedral of St. Magnus. How decentralized seaside town that thrives on fishing and wool, Kirkwall was granted to the Scottish court in 1471. In addition to the basilica of red sandstone in the Gothic style with three naves turn to cruise, the remains of the Bishop's Palace in the twelfth century and the historical building of XV Tankerness houses the Museum.
Almost 14 miles from Kirkwall are remains of settlements like Stonehenge. The first is called Maes Howe and dates from around 2700 BC, not far from the Circle of Standing Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar 3000 also from 2700. The most famous archaeological site of Skara Brae is, however, full expression of the 3000 BC Neolithic Northern Europe.
Sources: Wikipedia heading Kirkwall
Great Britain and Ireland, Blue Guide Touring Club
Photo: Fionacat (C) on Deviantart
