After a really early start, (4.30!), we arrived in Shetland at 11ish - via Aberdeen and 2 turbo propped flights in titchy little planes - very exciting.
Shetland is a really weird sort of place, I think you need to adjust to it, the pace of everything is so slow and the scale of everything is so small! Our "cottage" is cosy and we'll go walking and exploring after we've sorted out our nest.
Later on... went down to the coast near the cottage, and within half an hour we saw Guillemots, Cormorants, Gannets and some basking grey Seals - oh and loads of sheep an' cows!
Bit pooped after the early start, so it'll be an early night!
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ReplyDeleteLooking forward to reading the blog, Riddo!
ReplyDeleteOur family had a holiday in Shetland ... I think I was about five or six years old. A friend from MM had moved there so we got a holiday staying with them in a cottage between Gruting and Bridge of Walls. We travelled an on overnight sleeper to Aberdeen, followed by a flight in a tiny plane to Shetland. I remember there being almost a complete absence of trees. We also had a day of peat cutting to help earn our keep for the holiday.