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An Orkney Saga

The psychogeography of the Orkney Islands | Standing stones on the Orkney Islands | An Orkney Saga by Tim Cooke

One summer, my father took us, Rob and I, to the Orkney Islands, to see the Viking burial sites, Pictish and Neolithic ruins, and to do some fishing. I was still in primary school – year five, I think. The first evening we arrived, we watched three locals unload their catch from a small motorboat onto the boggy shore of the lake we were staying on…

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Ghosts of Humanity

The psychogeography of a piece of wasteground in Edinburgh | An image of an abandoned train tracks | Ghosts of Humanity by Daniel Pietersen

Turn off Seafield Road onto Marine Esplanade, past the sewage plant’s entrance, and you quickly come to the edge of the Firth of Forth. A wide expanse of water with the glittering lights of Kirkcaldy on the other side. There’s a grass walkway here, sandwiched between the treatment works’ chain fence and the sea wall, that leads down to the edge of what then becomes Portobello beach…

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