It's a tough hike and you need a map and compass but the rewards are stunning: views across shimmering waters to the isles of Rhum, Eigg and Skye, where the entire Cuillin ridge stands tall.
Don't forget your tea: Finally, this tweet made me smile, all the way from the northern reaches of these fine British isles.
During an era in which Greg Dyke, the Football Association chairman, talks of the "depressing" scarcity of English players at Premier League clubs, Lawrence's trajectory could yet follow that of Eric Dier, who was playing away from these isles at Sporting Lisbon before being brought back by Tottenham.
From the dawn of kingship on these isles, monarchy and armed service have gone hand in hand.
Shetland has eight shiny leisure centres for its tiny population and a new, world-class cultural venue; Orkney, which is only a little less rich, is an emerging renewable energy hub.Which of you shall we say doth love us most?These strengths are manifest in a new campaign for greater autonomy, "Our Islands, Our Future", launched jointly by the local authorities of the northern and western isles.
Some commentators, with an eye to the less go-getting Hebrides, attribute this to the northern isles' Nordic background.
Half a century later, the Japanese quietly took this name and fashioned out of it a Japanese one for their virgin isles: Senkaku, or "Pinnacled Pavilions".The islands were filled with the deafening cries of breeding boobies, terns and the "Gigantic petrel", by which Belcher presumably meant the short-tailed albatross.
All the same, on a Boswellian tour of the isles, hardly marred by the high winds that threatened to blow his head off, Bagehot struggled to find anyone who would frankly admit to being a Scottish secessionist.The inhabitants of the northern isles are—and not only because of oil among Britain's most self-confident, ingenious and richer folk.
Despite a dalliance with separatism during the 1970s, spurred by the discovery of oil, few Shetland Islanders want to secede, which is why Mr Scott then proceeded to explore an alternative: that, in the event of Scottish secession, the northern isles might opt to stay British.
COMMODITY PRICE INDEX The British isles' tea drinkers could soon be paying more for their cuppa.
ONCE the "friendly isles", the 170-island archipelago of Tonga is no longer so amicable.
