In a message dated 5/14/04 9:39:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, KJEMEM@aol.com writes: > But stick with us, you find out more > about Orkney than you could imagine, and feel that you've met some very nice > > people. Actually, nice people in Canada and the US as well. (Just as pleasant and interesting as the people I met in Barcelona a long time ago). The sea-faring industries of the British Isles and of the Iberian Peninnsula make for lots of parallel utensils of daily life, I'm sure, and perhaps more. I wonder what the earliest connections were between Orkney and Spain.... Any historians out there? Anne, just outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

"I wonder what the earliest connections were between Orkney and Spain.... Any historians out there?" Yes. try Italy . . . one Antonio Zeno goodonya, bill Bill Irvine alternate email: wji@islandnet.com MyBlog http://wjiwalks.blogspot.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <STRONSAY2@cs.com> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 2:38 PM Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] re: mail > In a message dated 5/14/04 9:39:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, KJEMEM@aol.com > writes: > > But stick with us, you find out more > > about Orkney than you could imagine, and feel that you've met some very nice > > > > people. > Actually, nice people in Canada and the US as well. (Just as pleasant and > interesting as the people I met in Barcelona a long time ago). > > The sea-faring industries of the British Isles and of the Iberian Peninnsula > make for lots of parallel utensils of daily life, I'm sure, and perhaps more. > I wonder what the earliest connections were between Orkney and Spain.... Any > historians out there? > > Anne, just outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania > > > ==== 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 >