Gives a whole different meaning to the phrase "Mum's been to Iceland"What? Iceland is only about 1000km from your home! Get on a boat or something!
Gives a whole different meaning to the phrase "Mum's been to Iceland"What? Iceland is only about 1000km from your home! Get on a boat or something!
There's a Tesco and Aldi in Kirkwall...but spending an entire day getting there and back on a ferry (3 hours each way) makes visiting a supermarket pure purgatory...even worse if the sea is lumpy and we have to cling on to the seats to avoid becoming onboard debris...having to take a turn on the oars is a bummer too. Orkney ferries...one step up from a longship and there's not even a complimentary helmet with horns.What? Iceland is only about 1000km from your home! Get on a boat or something!
Many times...I even ran several cargo trips up there in my Cutter during the CG when they were building Jacques up to be ColoniaMole have you been to Colonia? Coz I think they have it too 'soft' up there and your posts kind of enforce that point for me.
Look, it's just a slight misunderstanding because people get this bee in their bonnets about pronouncing “ch” differently from “sh”. All that furore over a simple missing or extra t-sound.Orkney...where shopping trips to the mainland usually went like this...
Jeb and Bob shooting for the Kerbol-landing:
See, I told you there is exploration gameplay loop!"I watched a 78 minute SQ42 video which was just a fly through of an empty space station environment. No indication of what actual gameplay takes place there, no actual mechanics or demonstration of the intended mechanics ... just "wow, look at how cool this looks, hey... that looks like a good place to hide ... and over there, this thing could maybe go up and down, that could be really fun".
The locals up here pronounce 'Loch' different too...they call them 'Fjords'Look, it's just a slight misunderstanding because people get this bee in their bonnets about pronouncing “ch” differently from “sh”. All that furore over a simple missing or extra t-sound.
There's a Tesco and Aldi in Kirkwall...but spending an entire day getting there and back on a ferry (3 hours each way) makes visiting a supermarket pure purgatory...even worse if the sea is lumpy and we have to cling on to the seats to avoid becoming onboard debris...having to take a turn on the oars is a bummer too. Orkney ferries...one step up from a longship and there's not even a complimentary helmet with horns.
Orkney...where shopping trips to the mainland usually went like this...
There's a Tesco and Aldi in Kirkwall...but spending an entire day getting there and back on a ferry (3 hours each way) makes visiting a supermarket pure purgatory...even worse if the sea is lumpy and we have to cling on to the seats to avoid becoming onboard debris...having to take a turn on the oars is a bummer too. Orkney ferries...one step up from a longship and there's not even a complimentary helmet with horns.
Orkney...where shopping trips to the mainland usually went like this...
The locals up here pronounce 'Loch' different too...they call them 'Fjords'
just to back up mole is not producing dreams.txt ;-) i spend 3 weeks on rousay some years ago. it changed my mind on "what is natural". for exampel the tide up there is so strong, that you can float backwards while having full wind in your sails.I somehow picture the Orkneys like the Iron Born islands in Game of Thrones...
Yup, with Amazon prime...no such thing as next day delivery though.Does Amazon deliver to your place free of charge?
Your next Prime delivery is incomingYup, with Amazon prime...no such thing as next day delivery though.
Aye, it's truly a wonderful...but wild place to live. It's also a very ancient place...there's been advanced human civilisation on these islands for over 5,500 years. The ring of Brodgar on the main island was erected 1500 years before Stonehenge, it's also the oldest recorded stone circle anywhere in Europe...maybe the first. It also predates the Egyptian pyramids by over 1,000 years. The history of these islands seeps into every pore after a while. You can't walk anywhere without tripping over Viking boat burials, Pictish burial mounds or rocks strewn with Runic writing. I even have a couple of runestones built in to the wall of my byre which was built in the 17th century....not to mention the 4,500 year old stone circle in my bottom field that I have to keep ploughing around every yearjust to back up mole is not producing dreams.txt ;-) i spend 3 weeks on rousay some years ago. it changed my mind on "what is natural". for exampel the tide up there is so strong, that you can float backwards while having full wind in your sails.
i really can recommend going there. it will take you 2+ days from anywhere, which is why not a lot of tourist will do so, but you'll experience something rare, unique and mindblowing.
like going through the usual storm to the beach, where it is suddenly quiet and warm, and swim with sea lions.
to make it more on topic - places like that make me highly sceptical that any game can produce more wonders than earth, and it also tells something about our idea of extremes is often far behind the reality. which is a problem creating the even more extreme extraterrestrial worlds.