 Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. You're from Orkney? This line is actually subscribed on screen. Hello, thank you for joining me on this lovely summer's evening. I'm in Kirkwall today in Orkney. This is Kirkwall Harbour. Kirkwall is the capital of Orkney. Now, I say summer's evening, it may not look it, but it's actually half past ten at night. It gets dark very late here and when it does get dark, it's only for a few hours. But they pay a hefty price for this in the winter because it's dark from about half past two. So it's really nice though on a summer's evening to be able to come out and enjoy the sun like this. You can see some of the boats in this side of the harbour. Right over there, you may be able to see a cruise ship. I think that might be the Bell Moral calling in. It's been there all day, so that's the big, where the big ferries go. They don't dock in this side. I believe that's the longest deep water birthing point in the whole of Scotland. So what we're going to do, we're going to go and have a look. So this is the more modern harbour. The original harbour would have been over there on the other side of the causeway. If we have a look here, here's the smaller harbour, where you'll find perhaps the fishing boats. And quite importantly, a lifeboat, also a little lighthouse there. What we're going to do, we're going to walk into the city centre. I say city centre for two reasons. It has a cathedral, so I think that was the traditional reason something was a city. You might be able to see the spa of it just there. But also it does say, as you drive into Kirkall. It says welcome to the city of Kirkall, even though it only has about 7,000. So it's a very, very small city. But it's not the smallest city in Britain. I think that goes to St David's in Wales. But we're going to have a little look around. If you can hear a lot of noise and partying. There is quite a lot of partying going on. There seems to be a lot of hen nights and stag dues taking place. So usually when I'm making videos, I'm not making them at this time of night. Because normally it's just simply too dark. But seeing as I'm here at this time, I thought might as well take on a little tour. Those of you who watch my videos may remember, about three years ago, last time I came to Auckland. I made a few videos then. I made one in Strom Ness, which is the second largest town on Auckland. Although it's a lot, lot smaller than Kirkall. If you'd like to see that video, have a look at the link on screen now. You'll be able to watch that one. Also on that visit, I did do some videos in Kirkall. I'll be able to show you them. I'll show you where I made the videos. There'll be a link on screen now. See what people have dressed up that appear to be going to some form of party. This street is where you'll find most of the hotels. There's the Kirkall Hotel, probably the biggest and most well known. There's some really bizarre costumes of people dressed up along there. We're going to head inland now. We're going to leave the harbour behind us with the fishing boat. That is an old land mine here, which you can put money in to donate to the Shipwreck Marine Society. When my granddad was in the war, he was on a minesweeper. He used to stoke the coal on a minesweeper. I see mine, it does make me think of him. We're going to head down. It looks a bit noisy, but once we get past these couple of bars, it's pretty quiet. That's Bridge Street. We're currently on Harbour Street. As you probably gather, there are various bars and everything in this part of the city. We're going to go in and look at some of the older parts of the city. I'll show you a few things on the way that may interest you. There's some more people. Someone dressed up as a leopard, a joker, just there. You can hear all the music. I'm going to walk quickly past this bit. There's a big party going on in there and in there. It's surprisingly quite a bit of a pass-the-town curve, which you may not expect. I certainly didn't. Why don't you show you this building here? For two reasons. One was Sir Walter Scott once dined here. Another thing, hello, is that they used to, when they wanted to... This is your log! Sorry? This is your log! Hello, you check. It's called Henry's Adventures. Have a look on my YouTube channel when you see yourself. You got a YouTube channel? Yeah, Henry's Adventures. Henry's Adventures. Hi, boys. Hello. Come on. This is Stephen Flan. What's the name of your channel? Henry's Adventures. Henry. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. You're from Auckland? I am, yeah. It's really nice here. So is he. Nice to meet you. Is it what I'm enjoying? Really? Yeah, yeah. Got a help. Oh, you're doing this as a bargain? That's my wife. If you do rise up and baton it. Hey, boys. Nice to meet you, lads. This doesn't better to do, so we'll just come and chat with you. All right, yeah, cool. Good to meet you. All right. I said, oh, well, no, he's odd. He's subscribed. This lads actually subscribed on screen. Live on camera, mate. This bloke says subscribe on screen. Thank you very much. I've got one more subscriber. Really appreciate that. Leave me two of them. All right, yeah. See you later. Nice to meet you. Yeah, great. So after meeting those nice, friendly lads, so Walter Scott actually stayed in this building, but the other thing I wanted to point out was when it came to the Navy, the Navy used to, their way of recruiting people, someone would sit up there in that office. Every now and then they'd drop a coin when they saw someone walking along, looking a bit tired and weary, and the person would pick up the coin. Some people would come out that door and drag them in, and they'd get them to join the Navy. So we're going to walk further into the town, or the city, as I should say, and have a look around. So it's got a bit quieter. I thought we might get some people, but that was quite nice. It was nice to meet some locals, and it was nice to be subscribed to whilst actually making a video. It's never happened before. So we're walking now. One thing you may, this may look like a pedestrianized street. It's not. A car could come down here at any time. So we should watch behind me sometime. We saw this in Stromnesce three years ago. There's not always a pavement, especially in the older town centres. So one idea is just to walk along the, walk along near the edge. So we come to this bend here now. There's all sorts of historical things. I'm not going to point all of them out. I just wanted to really just do a little tour of the town. So we get to here, or the city, as I keep sure to keep saying, we're going to head this way. We're going to go and find the Cathedral and the Bishops' Palace and the Elves' Palace, which I have already done a video on, but we can have a look at that as we go there. So look at it now. It's suddenly, now I've kind of come away from the Club 1830s area of town. That's what I've seen. Anyway, I've never been on one this holiday. So perhaps I don't really know what I'm saying. But anyway, now I've come away from the party town. It's a lot quieter and more how I actually kind of imagined it to be. I've been to Lerwick recently and that was, well, I wasn't actually there any evening. Lerwick is the main town on Shetland, which is a similar size, maybe a little bit smaller. And that was quite a lot quieter. So now we are onto, this is now a pedestrian zone, I've seen this bollard, so I pretty don't need to worry too much about cars coming speeding down. So there's lots of different shops to see. Some are touristy, some are, you know, aimed at the locals who live here. I believe on the whole of Orkney the population is about 23,000. So, you know, some ways it's a lot of people, and other ways it's not such a lot of people. But it's somewhere, I find it a fascinating place to visit. I don't think I would want to live here. There's no railways, other than that, it's really nice here. But I think for me, I like to be on the mainland, although when you come to the Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands, when you hear people referring to the mainland, they usually are referring to mainland Shetland or mainland Orkney. Another interesting thing I heard today when talking to someone was it's actually incorrect to say on Orkney because Orkney is a county which is a load of islands. So you should actually always say in Orkney. And then if you were to go to one of the islands, refer to it by the actual island itself rather than, you know, Orkth, just say on Orkney or the Orkney Islands, because that's like saying the Orkney Islands Islands, if you know what I mean, Orkney itself is plural. So Orkney means, and the same, go to Shetland. So as we're coming down to here now, we're coming into the older part of the town. This is where you'll see some of the most historical buildings. You see that road there? That's called Castle Street. We're not going to go down there. There's the local police there. So I wonder what they're up to. I don't think there's a very safe place. There's not a lot of crime goes on here, but no doubt they obviously do have work to do here. In front of us, there's a rather spectacular cathedral. That is Orkney Cathedral. So as I said, it makes it a city. That's a cool little camper there. So it's a city in my books anyway, because it's got a cathedral. And because it does say as you drive in, welcome to the city of Orkney. So have a look at that. That is the spectacular cathedral. I've been inside in the past and have a chance to on this visit. And around the corner, we'll see the ruins of the Old Palace and the Bishop's Palace. And then what I thought we'll do, we'll go down perhaps one of these narrow lanes and we'll go and have a look at the very original harbour. That's the old town hall. They're very Scottish looking. Built in 1884, because I just read that off the door. So the road sort of swings this way. The town or city continues. Here we are in front of St Magnus Cathedral. As far as I'm aware, I think it's the only cathedral on a Scottish island. There might be some on the Western islands, I'm not sure. This tower in front of us, that is the Bishop's Palace. And the Old Palace is close by. So what I suggest is that I'm going to point them out. If you'd like to see more as in inside these two ruined palaces, click at link on screen now. This video I made on my last visit to Auckland three years ago. Probably look spectacular lit up at night, but I'm probably going to stay up to about one o'clock to see it lit up. I'll let you see the tower of the Bishop's Palace. So these are historic Scotland, so you pay to go in. We can go into the courtyard I've discovered, but we can't actually go in because they lock them. So I think during the day that gate there would be locked. We wouldn't be able to just walk in like we can now. So let's go across. You can't see the Bishop's Palace. And we are quite literally about to go into the garden of the Earl's Palace into here. And then if you have a look through the trees, that's the Earl's Palace. Let's go over and have a closer look. But as I said, we are not able to go in because you might not look it, but I've already seen it before, it is half past 10 o'clock at night. So it's close. Have a look at that. It's rather spectacular building the Earl's Palace. But to see inside I do watch my video from three years ago. If you want to see what you used to look like, I can show you because I don't remember these boards being here. That's what it used to all look like. So that is the tower of the Bishop's Palace and this is the Earl's Palace. Those two twin conical towers is those two just there. And then you can see those two towers there. That is those two towers. You can see there have been a building here in front of, I believe this is the court. So if the police do find anyone to arrest tonight and they get charged, this is where they'll be taken. So where the court was was sort of this area or it is this area here. As for the Bishop's Palace, we'll go back out here. Have a look. So that's about getting dark. You can see it's kind of dusky. It's got dark hair, but it's certainly light enough to be doing this. So here we have a view of how the Bishop's Palace used to look. You can see the cathedral, rosewind in the background, which works hidden behind the tree, but is there. So that's how the Bishop's Palace looked. That's the back of that tower. What we're going to do now though, we'll go back past the front of the cathedral. We'll go down one of those lanes and have a look at another side of the town. Then I think I've shown you the most important parts. If you continue on up there, there's quite a lot of residential areas. There's also the most normally distillery in Scotland here on Orkney. In Kurtcourt, there's no, or not to my knowledge, I don't think there's any distilleries on Shetland, which Shetland is a good 100 miles north. So the other day I did the ferry. I got the ferry from Aberdeen. Took about 16 hours to get to Lerwick, but I did have a berth for the night. In fact, again, if you want to see what that's like, when I came up here three years ago, I made a video on the ferry. So have a look at Lincoln's screen now. You can see what the ferry journey is like. It's a trip I do recommend doing to come up here and see these islands, because they're very fascinating. And Shetland and Orkney are very different to each other. Orkney feels a lot more Scottish. Shetland used to be part of Norway, but it does have quite a Scandinavian feel. There are certain streets you'd see that could have quite easily been in Norway. If you said to someone, look at that picture, what do you think that is? They probably would say, well, I think it's in Norway. And of course they were Norwegian. It was to do with, I think, an Norwegian king wanted to marry a Scottish princess. I'm not entirely sure, but I think he gave them to Scotland and thought he'd be able to buy them back, but he couldn't. So they remained Scottish. So we come back to town hall now. Get down the steps in front of the cathedral. You can see how sort of quiet it is. Here we have a conventional looking road. I believe also they have the shortest a-road in Great Britain here. Oh, and another amusing thing. I did, I made this joke in Stromnesk a couple of years ago. I'm going to make it again now. If you don't like my videos, here you are, here's a moment for you. There is actually a place with that name on Orkney, hence, why they sell those rather amusing souvenirs. So we're going to leave the beautiful cathedral behind us now. We're going to go down this little lane. Down here, what's it called? St Magnus Lane. Very obviously, named after the cathedral. So it's really not quite now. It's kind of gone away from where everyone is. Like I said, all the bars we saw were very busy and very lively, like I didn't expect it, but we're going to go down here towards the old harbour. So, okay, this bit's not that exciting. It's a bit of a back street. I don't think you're supposed to, I don't think you could drive a car down here, because that's the thing with no pavements. It's not always clear where you can and can't drive a car. There's shops selling things like ovens and washing machines. So Siemens Bosch, you know. That's where you come to Orkney to buy an oven. Public toilets there. It's quite good Orkney for public toilets. Most of you go, you will find there are public toilets to use, because they obviously get a lot of people travelling around. Here's some of the local houses where you're going to turn left up here. Or could I? No, I'm going to go straight on actually, because there's not really a lot to see. This building here is quite interesting in front of us. It's quite a big building for Orkney. It's the Orkney Libraries and the Archives behind us is the Cathedral in distance. It seems most places you go around here, you can see the spire of the cathedral. It must be the tallest building on Orkney, maybe a bar, possibly some TV masked or radio masked. It may well be taller, but I'm fairly sure that's the tallest masonry structure. There are no tower blocks or tall buildings on Orkney. Maybe one building that might go slightly nearer being high, but then that's what I can't... It's here in front of us. I said we're heading towards the original harbour, which has been blocked off by a causeway. This building in front of us, here on the other side of the road, got two chimneys. They don't go quite anywhere near as big as tall as the spire of the cathedral. This building with the chimneys is the island's power station. I'm not sure if I should use it. I believe it was an oil powered power station. There's a lot of oil in the area. It doesn't appear that there's any kind of vapour or smoke coming out of the chimneys. So to me that would suggest it's possibly no longer in use. There's quite a lot of wind turbines around. Shetland also has a power station, but it's quite interesting to see a rather historic looking power station. I'm tempted to go up to the windows and try and look in, and work on camera to show you, but it would be a thermal power station, so a steam power station. So, you know, they burn oil to drive the turbines to make steam. They burn oil to make steam to drive the turbines to make electricity. It does stay just there by the door in blue curtain called power station. And I believe it's the only power station they have on Auckland. When you get to Lerwick, up to Shetland, you'll see there's a similar older smaller power station like this, and the next door there's a bigger sort of more big box of power station, which is oil fired. But the water comes from just behind there. We'll get onto that in a minute. We're going to walk up here, up towards Lidl. We're not going to Lidl. Sort of Tesco's up here, so you kind of get the gist of the area of town we're going to. So really, Auckland and, well, Kirkall. It's like a, basically like a mini Scotland. It has everything you'd expect. I even saw a bendy bus earlier. Look that way. I can just see the top of the Bishop's Palace and of course the cathedral. It's a bit like a, just a scaled down Scotland, apart from there's no railways. If there was ever to, there have been railways in the past. There were various narrow gauge railways during the war. I think if there was any serious railway like into city railway, wouldn't be in city, it'd be into town railway, would be from here to Strom Ness, where, as I've mentioned a couple of times already, I made a video three years ago. There could have been a railway. It's about what, 10, 15 miles away? That would probably be the only serious place you could really have a railway between those two towns. You do get, I came, so I'm going back to my journey on the ferries. I went from Aberdeen to Lerwick. I spent the day in Lerwick looking around. Last night I got a ferry from Lerwick to Kirkall. I took about eight hours, so I had dinner on board the ferry. Got stayed here the night, and then so I've had a look all round, all round Auckland. I went to Scarab Ray. I didn't make a video, it was too windy. And then tomorrow I'll go over to Strom Ness and get the ferry to Scrabster, which is basically Firzo, and then travel south down to Inverness and catch a train south. Anyway, here is the harbour. You can just see, you may just be able to see a ship there in the distance. That is a causeway. I'm not going to go all the way around there now, but there is a causeway, and this would have been the original to see. It would have come right in here, but it is now, effectively, the old harbour. Boats don't really come in here anymore, but see what I mean about the power station? The power station has a plentiful supply of water. We look up over there, you can see the hill up on the hill. The camera is not picking them up. There are some various TV masks and everything for, you know, for television, for BBC Radio Auckland, which I believe exists. Over there is the modern Tesco. You've got Tescos, Co-op and Lidl. So if you live in Auckland, it's where you want to go do your shopping. So, thank you very much for watching. Hope you enjoyed this little tour of Kirkwell. Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment. And from the original harbour in Kirkwell, good night.