KIRKWALL, Scotland — William Thomson’s family had played this sport for centuries, so he understood that he needed to choose between two strategies for the annual Christmas Day ba’ game. The scrawny ...
In this game, two teams battle through town's streets with a leather ball, with few rules, unlimited players, and no time ...
A UK town is so friendly and welcoming residents can leave their front doors unlocked and leave their keys inside their cars. Kirkwall, in Orkney, Scotland, was voted the UK’s friendliest town in a ...
A local taxi driver offers up two stories as evidence of just how friendly Kirkwall, the largest town in Scotland's Orkney archipelago, can be. The first: He left his wallet, phone and car keys on the ...
This paper focuses on the practice of playing folk football on Christmas Day and New Year's Day in Kirkwall, Orkney, and on the idea of "embodiment" in traditional games. The comparison of empirical ...
FROM the minute you arrive in Orkney, you can tell you’re somewhere different – and utterly captivating. The archipelago’s dual heritage, Scots and Norse, gives the place unique feel, while the ...
Kirkwall has been named Scotland's most beautiful high street after topping a public poll. It narrowly beat Lerwick and Milngavie, receiving nearly 5,000 votes - 21% of the online poll. Lerwick ...
There's nothing like a warm welcome. And these are the places in the UK where you're most likely to get one, according to Booking.com. The travel site has analysed which places have the highest number ...
A wild green archipelago of some 70 islands scattered between 10 and 80km off the northern tip of the Scottish mainland, the Orkneys are so far-flung they did not even become part of Scotland until ...
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