Scoping out Orkney from here, I see that there are two estate agents (and two lawyers who double as estate agents) there who have discovered the selling power of Teh Intarwebz. They have some very nice properties for sale, and if I were thinking of living on Orkney Mainland longterm I might even be willing to take on the challenge of a "former dwellinghouse requiring complete renovation" that looks to be a traditional stone farmhouse with "mains water and electricity nearby" (oh, I can only imagine what range of estate agent venality is compressed into that word "nearby") with a 1/2 acre of land for £25,000. For a nine-month stay, however, that seems a bit risky...
In terms of rentals, though, they have nothing to offer. Various search engines generally say 0 (there's no Gumtree: Kirkwall :-), though one helpfully gave me four listings for flats it claimed were on Orkney. Two were in Thurso and one in Castletown (all on the opposite side of the Pentland Firth--a great pipe tune but a rather expensive commute). The fourth was, of course, in Kreuzberg--a district of Berlin (WTF?) There appear to be two papers, one of which simply links you to the two attorneys, the other of which had two flats listed...for sale.
So I suspect that either people don't rent much there, and/or that people who rent go through some process that isn't readily web accessible. :-) So I'll get in touch with folks at the college and see what they say.
In the meantime, I'm soaking up as much of
this very cool site as I can.
And chuckling over
this strip, which seems to be the Orkney equivalent of Garfield, Cathy, and The Broons combined.
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