Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Visitors look at the 5,000 year-old remains of Skara Brae village in the Scottish Orkney Islands, July 19, 2005, which was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Local politicians on Britain's Orkney Islands say they are considering what they're calling "alternative forms of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. The landscapes and nature of Norway’s spectacular Lofoten ...

Travelers who've been to Hawaii or the Caribbean are familiar with the concept of "island time," a slower-paced, flexible, and more relaxed lifestyle where punctuality is less important than simply ...

The Lofoten village Reine is a tourist magnet in the summer, yet it arguably looks even more beautiful in the winter. Situated in Norway’s remote northwest, the Arctic archipelago of Lofoten stands ...

Sick of being ignored by far-away politicians, officials on Scotland’s remote Orkney Islands are mulling a drastic solution: rejoining Norway, the Scandinavian country that gave them away as a royal ...

FILE - Visitors look at the 5,000 year-old remains of Skara Brae village in the Scottish Orkney Islands, July 19, 2005, which was revealed by a huge storm in 1850. Sick of being ignored by far-away ...