Breakfast at Café Schopenhauer

The Café Schopenhauer is your typical Viennese coffeehouse and looks exactly what one expects from a coffeehouse in Vienna. Except…

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The best places to grab some food on Orkney

When you live in a big city, you don’t even know how blessed you are. Until you come to Orkney,…

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The Broch of Gurness and searching for Northern Lights

I guess most of Mainland was by now crossed off our must-see list. From Kirkwall, to Skara Brae, the Brough…

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Breakfast at 15 süße Minuten

A new year starts with a new breakfast place. In a way I feel as if we are moving more…

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Skaill beach walking on Orkney

While walking through the prehistoric Neolithic village of Skara Brae I read in my guide book that there was a…

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Passione-Da Ferdinando

The 13th district of Vienna is rather a culinary desert. Or at least it was while I lived there. Come…

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Orkney – more walking around the Mainland – Yesnaby

After the Neolithic treasures, a walking tour on Hoy, the Churchill Barriers in the South, and Kirkwall, I had a…

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Breakfast at The Long Hall

Finding a breakfast place on a Sunday and even more so on the third day of the new year is…

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Books

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander Book 9) by Diana Gabaldon: My heart is full with so…

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Stromness and the south of Mainland Orkney

The ferry to Hoy left from Houton, which is in the southwest of Mainland Orkney. So while already in this…

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