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Be Prepared – 50+ Things You May Miss In Orkney ©

1/9/2022

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Many things that you may be used to are not available here.
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  1. No distant ground trembling rumble of tube-trains
  2. No low-flying jet airliners overhead
  3. No distant hiss of motorway traffic
  4. No drunkards passing your house singing at 3 in the morning
  5. No motorbikes roaring past in the middle of the night 
  6. No motorway madness drivers
  7. No congestion tailbacks for miles
  8. No McDonald’s
  9. No rush-hour tube train or rail congestion
  10. No broken-down station escalators – ever
  11. No streets full of litter or smelly waste products
  12. No road surfaces constantly dug up for gas pipe repairs
  13. No leaking gas mains
  14. No outrageous airport car parking fees
  15. No cigarette machines on every street corner
  16. No people looking the other way and ignoring you if you need help
  17. No pollution. None
  18. No high crime rate
  19. No congestion charges
  20. No excessive surveillance
  21. No football hooligans
  22. No multi-story car parks
  23. No overcrowded shopping malls
  24. No high-rise blocks of flats to spoil the view
  25. No overcrowded or dirty railway stations
  26. No outdoor activities on winter nights
  27. No crowded beaches with Ice cream and candyfloss sellers
  28. Flyovers, traffic lights, underpasses, or railway bridges 
  29. No over-crowding for humans (only creatures that love Orkney) 
  30. No queues for public telephones 
  31. No scorching sunburn 
  32. No skylines encumbered with high-rise buildings
  33. No multi-story car parks 
  34. No noisy shunting yard train 
  35. No high-rise buildings to spoil the view 
  36. No polluting factories
  37. No dodgy unlicensed street traders 
  38. No litter-filled streets 
  39. No high crime rate 
  40. No rampant knife crime 
  41. No noisy motorways 
  42. No derelict high streets 
  43. No over-crowded beaches 
  44. No litter-strewn streets 
  45. No rampant knife crime 
  46. No market-place dodgy vendors 
  47. No broken-down escalators 
  48. No litter-strewn streets 
  49. No risky level-crossings 
  50. No smog-filled sky
  51. ​No polluting factories
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