An island getaway certainly sounds appealing, but it usually entails embarking on a long-haul flight heading somewhere ...

I didn’t know if I would retire in Scotland until almost the day that I did. But things happen during a life if you say “yes” to new opportunities. And now, this former elementary-school teacher from ...

The Scottish archipelago of the Orkney Islands announced it was considering restricting the number of cruise ships that can visit the small island chain this week. According to CruiseHive.com, the ...

In May I decided, "it's time! Enough staring at four walls and eating too well. I'm going to Europe!" Overseas Adventure Travel is valued for its person-to-person encounters, e.g. home-hosted lunches ...

The 900-odd islands, islets and skerries amassed off the western and northern coasts of mainland Scotland are an eclectic bunch. In the north, the North Sea archipelagos of Shetland and Orkney have ...

ORKNEY'S Island Games gave a £4.3 million boost to the local economy, a new report has found. Despite this, the week’s effect ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the identity of a 1700s vessel shipwrecked in Orkney. Expert say the vessel discovered on the island of Sanday last year is most likely the Earl of Chatham, a former ...

Locals on a windswept Scottish island claim they are under siege from thousands of anti-social tourists every year with the situation so stark that visitors who are caught short are now defecating ...

When a teenage boy crawls out of the sea wearing the remains of his silver skin the Orcadians question if he’s possibly a ‘selkie’? Half man, half seal, selkies are part of the mythology of Orkney. In ...

Plans to build a four-storey, 92-bed hotel in Kirkwall have been submitted to Orkney Islands Council. They have been brought ...