It's probably the ultimate hangover cure: join a whirling scrimmage of men, on a windswept Northly Scottish isle, in a game with shadowy rules, looking for a ball that can be exhaustingly elusive.<

Each day in December the setting sun moves incrementally across a narrow South Westerly doorway in the cairn in Maeshowe in Orkney. The doorway leads down an 11 metre (36 feet) long narrow passage, which opens to the large inner chamber (4.6 m/15 ft, pictured above) which it is believed was the burial chamber.