House for Sale

Alison M Tramschek

Going to look at houses for sale can be a world wide occupation. Looking in the windows of Estate Agents is the start of an exploration down narrow lanes and through farm yards, or along suburban streets lined with flowering cherry trees, or, even, tower blocks of forbidding apartments.

After several holidays in Orkney we reckoned to know the West Midland quite well. However there was that road opposite the one which led between the locks to the Ring of Brodgar. 'Oh' they said, 'the Happy Valley road'. One morning there was a new sign in the Estate Agents window... if you want to be pompous an Estate agents directions 'legitimise off road exploration'... , we had them, papers and road maps, picnic and waterproofs, GO. ... (continues)