Slow Orkney - Stromness
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 เม.ย. 2020
- Join us on the streets and shoreline of Stromness for our latest 'Slow Orkney' feature. We know that you can't visit us here in Orkney at the moment, so we're trying to bring the sights and sounds of the islands to you. Hopefully you can take some time to slow down and let your mind wander with this short film, from our home to yours.
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I was born in Orkney over 70 years ago .My husband and I go back most years it has a magic about it that you don’t get any where else it’s wonderful
So glad to hear you still feel that connection to the islands!
You always love all about your birthplace and it's such a wonderful place on earth.
We want to go and we want to live in Orkney but we don’t know any thing there we don’t if is it good or bad
@@imanalenzi2330 take a look at our website for more info on living and working in Orkney :-)
My ancestor Thomas Brown was a Stromness lad and mariner who arrived in Australia around the late 1840-early 1850s. It's fascinating to see the village where he grew up 😊
Thank you - I loved watching this film in my flat in Deptford, south east London. Nice to catch a glimpse of George Mackay Brown and one of his best books. The northern light is something else.
Glad you enjoyed it, Andrew. We published a few of these back in the dark days of spring and early summer 2020 as a way of bringing Orkney to folk who wouldn't be able to visit back then. Glad to see it's still bringing a bit of light to folk even now 👍
Thank you for sharing these peaceful sights. They're much needed indeed. So long.
Thanks, Caterina, glad you enjoyed it!
This fills my heart with some surprisingly deep sense of longing, as well as belonging, though I've never been. I seem to remember the actor Robert Shaw mentioning his childhood years in Stromness. It really is as beautiful as he described.
Thank you. Visited Stromness from Norway last summer. Lovely little town with an instantly recognizable name for Norwegians. Strøm = tidal/current. Nes = headland. And George MacKay Brown is translated to Norwegian. «Sangen om Greenvoe» is strongly recommended.
Lots of connections between Orkney and Norway indeed, we're very proud of our Norse heritage! Glad you liked the video.
I was looking at a map of Wales, then started moving north and got to Scotland. Continued my journey snd then the name Stromness just caught my attention. It’s kind of wonderful that I could then go to TH-cam and find this great video. Thank you for helping me get out of my house for a while. Cheers from Mexico City all the way to Stromness! Beautiful place!
Glad you could join us for a while, Sergio! Hope you enjoyed your virtual visit, and hopefully we'll see you here in person some day 😀
One day I will be moving there for good, can't wait
That's good to hear, John, you'll be most welcome!
I am massive outdoors person and Orkney is like a paradise to me, but secondly Orkney has managed to keep a sense of community which is so rare in England now. But I must apologise for one thing before I turn up, I am English :)
@@johncharles9996 Haha, that's not a problem at all!
I love your "Slow Orkney" videos. Please post more of these if you can! We've been to the Orkneys twice and have become addicted. As you can guess, we show withdrawal symptoms right now - it would be around this time of year that we visit Stromness and Papay and many other places. Hope you'll weather the current crisis well.
Glad you're enjoying them! We have a few more planned, although it would be a lot easier if we were able to get out and film some new ones! Soon, hopefully.
Lovely islands, would go there anytime of the year.
That's good to hear, David, hopefully you can make a trip when things are back to normal :-)
Can't wait to move here. Married an Orkney lass and had our wedding in Stromness. Even did my HGV driving test in Kirkwall a few years back. Love the place
You're well versed with the islands then! Hope we see you and your family here soon!
Had my DNA done and found I was 8.5% from the Orkney Is. so I feel like that’s where I’m from. Would love to come and visit this wonderful area.
Excellent, that makes you Orcadian in our book!
Ahhh! The Bracing Aroma of the North Atlantic. That is home.
Unmistakable!
very peaceful - we enjoyed our stay in Stromness
Thanks, Ian - glad you enjoyed your visit to Stromness!
I left Stromness just a couple of days ago. Miss it so much! Beautiful sights.
Hope you can come back and see it again sometime!
Lovely photographs of a lovely place. Many thanks Rmb5*
Beautiful video, thank you so much. Makes me want to go there for peace, quiet and good old fish n chips x
Best place for all three!
Fantastic footage
Thanks, Calum, glad you enjoyed it!
What a wonderful web site . Looking to visit this year when you open back up to the public , circumstances have changed for us , looks lovely to live there 👍👍🏴🏴
Thanks, Artie, really glad you like the site! Hope you managed to visit us this year.
Thank you for sharing!so beautiful!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I should be there at this very moment!!! Hoping to get there next year!!!
We'll keep our fingers crossed for you!
Thank you. I have connections to Stromness through my ancestors, although I will never get to visit physically you are giving me the opportunity to visit and get the feel of where they lived. The census does not give specific addresses so I will never know exactly where their house was but it's great to envisage them walking along the streets. =-)
Really glad you enjoyed your virtual trip to Stromness, Lorraine. It's a beautiful place. If you want to try and find out more about our Orkney connections then you could try the Orkney Family History Society, you can find them on the web and Facebook :)
Just perfect!
I want to live there
You'd love it!
Well go and live there :)
John Charles I’m not sure if you understand immigration laws lol
Beautiful that . My family are originally from the orkneys
So many memories there
Hope we helped bring some of them back to mind for you, Arthur!
What a treat to see! Beautiful, morning experiences! Must have been fun filming it all :)
It certainly was! A few early mornings but definitely worth it. Such a lovely pace of life in that town.
So beautiful and peaceful. Wonderful video.
Thank you!
Stunning in every way possible. Thanks for filming this beautiful scenery. Hope one day I get to visit :-)
Wonderful place, wonderful video!
Thank you.
No problem at all, hope you enjoyed it!
Fantastic place, we had booked to come in June, sorry to have to cancel. The moment we can ,we will be back.
Sorry to hear that, Peter. Hope you do manage to schedule another trip soon.
Hi I’m from Orkney and I wanted to say that Orkney seems to just be a tourist attraction to people outside of Orkney.
Orkney is a different place to us people and it’s kinda dull to be fair 😕
Like many islands I suppose. They show a unique way of living to those who are foreign to them. But if you spend all your life on a single island (or small collection of islands) you will be able to see much of the entire world.
Fair comment, have you lived there all your life? Do many people from Orkney, especially young ones, tend to move down to mainland Scotland, e.g. places like Edinburgh or Glasgow in search of a livelier life or is this not the case?
@@ramreff8066 yea that is very much the case
It’s a whole different culture!
Nice
TH-cam does it again 🤌
Precioso, estuve en Agosto del año pasado, y espero volver. Me recuerda a mi tierra, Galicia.
Glad you like it! We'd love to visit Galicia, looks beautiful!
what do people do for a living on Orkney?
Anything and everything, from farming, fishing and aquaculture, to renewable energy, the public sector and tourism-related jobs :)
Is Schengen visa applicable to Orkney Islands or what?
With the UK leaving the EU at the beginning of 2021 new immigration rules will come into effect. We'd recommend checking with the Gov.uk website to get the latest info.
I'm moving to America. So I can get a job. And get my dream job, going to mars