Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Orkney has been besieged by cruise ships and tens of thousands of travellers - Iain Masterton/Alamy Outside, it was cold and dark.

To understand Highland Park, you need to understand Orkney. Orkney is a series of 70 islands off the north coast of the Scottish mainland. Here, you’ll find the Kirkwall distillery, the home of ...