Another Shire visited

19th June 2011

Shetland the destination for our summer holiday, although the weather was far from summery, but then again what more can you expect when you are THIS far north.



Can we look for Polar Bears now



We did get much further north than here but this is just to prove we made it to this latitude.  There was a lot of rain, what felt like hurricanes, but the locals probably refer to them as a "few gusts", there was a night we feared for the tent, but with us and our luggage inside it it would have had to been mighty powerful to get us airborne.  We also had a few days with sunshine to rival any Mediterranean resort :-).

We rode the bikes to the most northerly point we could on a road.



Saxa Vord

 This is a  military radar and early warning centre, it closed in 2005, but as you see the big golf ball is still here so are they STILL watching?




From here we walked around the fence and got a good view of Muckle Flugga.  Some day I will return and get a closer up view, just have to pick a day with less wind.

Muckle Flugga in the distance, photo taken the day after the proposed boat trip, yesterday the sea resembled a bubbling pot of blueberry jam. 

Muckle Flugga                    

Caution may contain a geocache

When you visit Unst you by default visit a few of the Most Northerly icons in the British Isles, bus shelter, brewery, house & Post Office.  The post office hand franks all the post cards sent from there, when we arrived home we saw the special frank mark is a couple of cute puffins.

My official photo for my 2011 challenge is The Shetland Bus Memorial in Scalloway.  The memorial is constructed from stone from both Shetland & Norway which in my opinion is a fitting tribute to all those brave seamen who operated "this service"

Shetland Bus memorial Scalloway

My photo for my challenge, couldn't get Mikes bike in cos he didn't want to have it in the same frame as a wee learners bike

The "Bus"

Detail on the top of the memorial.