Howan Cottage

28/09/2026

Here's a list of the cruise ship arrivals for the week beginning 28/09/26. There are no expected road closures this week.

Monday 28 September
🚢 Hanseatic Spirit - Kirkwall Anchorage - anticipated passengers: 230

Wednesday 30 September
🚢 Spitsbergen - Kirkwall Pier - anticipated passengers: 335

Thursday 1 October
🚢 Spitsbergen - Hatston Pier - anticipated passengers: 335

Saturday 3 October
🚢 Spitsbergen - Hatston Pier - anticipated passengers: 335

For the full cruise ship schedule and latest updates, visit https://bit.ly/4clLMF2

20/09/2026

Here's a list of the cruise ship arrivals for the week beginning 21/09/26. There are expected road closures on Friday 25th and Sunday 27th September.

Wednesday 23 September
🚢 Viking Vela - Hatston Pier - anticipated passengers: 998

Friday 25 September
🚢 Costa Favolosa - Hatston Pier - anticipated passengers: 3800

Saturday 26 September
🚢 National Geographic Endurance - Hatston Pier - anticipated passengers: 140

Sunday 27 September
🚢 MSC Preziosa - Hatston Pier - anticipated passengers: 4345

For the full cruise ship schedule and latest updates, visit https://bit.ly/4clLMF2

19/09/2026

🧡 🍊 🍫 Special pud this weekend is Terry's Chocolate Orange Cheesecake 🍫🍊 🧡

Get it added to your order on 721 327 before 4pm 🍟

19/09/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌾 These are not clan names. They are the names of fields.

Orkney was Norse for six hundred years and never had a clan system at all. What it had was farms, and by the time surnames settled there the people simply took the name of the ground they worked. Corrigall is a farm in Harray. Marwick is a farm in Birsay. Flett, Isbister, Rendall, Sabiston, Twatt, Kirkness, Yorston, every single one is a place on the map before it is ever a person.

That is why an Orkney surname tells you more than almost any other name in Scotland. It does not tell you who your chief was. It tells you which few acres your people came off, often down to one steading you can still walk to on a Tuesday afternoon.

Thousands of these names went out to Hudson Bay with the Company, to Canada, to New Zealand, to the whaling. The farms stayed exactly where they were.

Somewhere in Orkney there is a field with your name on it.

13/09/2026

Here's a list of the cruise ship arrivals for the week beginning 14/09/26. There is an expected road closure on Monday 14th September.

Monday 14 September
🚢 Majestic Princess - Hatston Pier - anticipated passengers: 3560
🚢 Le Laperouse - Kirkwall Bay Anchorage - anticipated passengers: 92

Thursday 17 September
🚢 Viking Mira - Hatston Pier - anticipated passengers: 944

Friday 18 September
🚢 Viking Jupiter - Hatston Pier - anticipated passengers: 954
🚢 Viking Saturn - Kirkwall Bay Anchorage - anticipated passengers: 944

Saturday 19 September
🚢 Bolette - Hatston Pier - anticipated passengers: 1380

Sunday 20 September
🚢 Le Laperouse - Kirkwall Bay Anchorage - anticipated passengers: 92
🚢 Ambience - Hatston Pier - anticipated passengers: 2043

For the full cruise ship schedule and latest updates, visit https://bit.ly/4clLMF2

07/09/2026

07/09/2026

Barony Mill, 3 miles from Howan Cottage and a favorite place to take visitors!

07/09/2026

Click Mill, Dounby, gifted by John Flett, Howan, Dounby.

06/09/2026

Here's a list of the cruise ship arrivals for the week beginning 07/09/26. There are expected road closures on Wednesday 9th and Thursday 10th September.

Monday 7 September
🚢 Borealis - Hatston Pier - anticipated passengers: 1360

Tuesday 8 September
🚢 Mein Schiff 2 - Hatston Pier

Wednesday 9 September
🚢 Corinthian - Kirkwall Pier - anticipated passengers: 114
🚢 Sky Princess - Hatston Pier - anticipated passengers: 3660

Thursday 10 September
🚢 MSC Preziosa - Hatston Pier - anticipated passengers: 4345

Friday 11 September
🚢 Silver Dawn - Hatston Pier - anticipated passengers: 623

For the full cruise ship schedule and latest updates, visit https://bit.ly/4clLMF2