Silly me! Im in north wales. Unfortunately not mega rich- I cant blieve how expensive the planes are. Im finding it very difficult to find connecting planes from liverpool to wherever to kirkwall. I will try national express- thankyou! ----Original Message Follows---- From: Mike Clouston <mike@mikeclouston.co.uk> Reply-To: ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com To: ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] getting to orkney Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:18:10 +0000 Erin Robinson wrote: >Hello! >I desperately want to see orkney this christmas, but can only get the 15th >to the 20th of december off work. >I cant drive, so trains/coaches will have to be used, including planes or >ferries. >Can anyone help with some info? >without a car, how can I get to scrabster this time of year, does anyone >know? is there a train station relatively near? >Please help me! I need my orkney fix!! >Thanks, from Erin. Erin, You don't say where you are travelling from. Certainly there is a train station at Thurso, just a couple of miles from Scrabster. I travelled from Cornwall to Scrabster by National Express coach in September - cheap and on time! The coach took me from Cornwall to Glasgow, Glasgow to Inverness and Inverness to Scrabster. There was an hour or so's wait in Scrabster for the Hamnavoe ferry to Stromness. On the return journey the coach was waiting at Scrabster for the 9 a.m. ferry from Stromness when it arrived at 10.30 a.m. You can always fly if you are mega-rich :-) Safe journey and enjoy your holiday. ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com from a small, smarmy, smart, smashing, smiling, smirking, smooching, smooth, smothering, smug, smitten, smevil, smental, smoozy Smerin (Smez, to her friends) from Smegypt simagining Smaustralia and the smocean. _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with cool emoticons - download MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger

> Silly me! Im in north wales. Unfortunately not mega rich- I cant blieve how > expensive the planes are. Im finding it very difficult to find connecting > planes from liverpool to wherever to kirkwall. > I will try national express- thankyou! > There's links to the websites of the main travel operators (plane, bus, rail & boat) on the Orkney Tourist Board website. http://www.visitorkney.com/getting.html The only word of warning is - remember the weather can be bad at that time of year, so be prepared in case you get stuck anywhere. It hopefully won't happen, but it's better to be prepared. Hopefully it'll be good weather and you'll have a great trip. Fiona Orkney