You lucky Trish.

We went to Skye/Harris/Lewis in '02 and Orkney in'04. Utterly amazing places. Orkney is indeed hyper-flat and that of the winds is also true. O yes, and this is Scotland, it can also rain occasionally :-)

On OS 1:50.000 maps there's even marked in green dots an "ideal" cycling route on the mainland. It's great. We saw it by car, because we hadn't really grasped what the green dots meant so we just thought "scenic" - which it was. When it became apparent that there were some really narrow roads there, and a surprising amount of cyclists (relatively speaking), something started to dawn... slowbrains.

We took some pics: http://users.skynet.be/bert_saskia/travel/

have heaps of fun! you will!!

-arf