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Extract from the John O'Groats Travel Guides:
Romantics expecting to find a magical meeting of land and water at
JOHN O'GROATS
are invariably disappointed - sadly, but all too predictably, it's a seedy little tourist trap. The views north to Orkney are fine enough, but the village is little more than a string of overpriced souvenir shops thronged with coach parties. The village gets its name from the Dutchman, Jan de Groot, who obtained the ferry contract for the hazardous crossing to Orkney in 1496. The eight-sided house he built for his eight quarrelling sons (so that each one could enter by his own door) is echoed in the octagonal tower of the much-photographed
John O...
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