Saturday morning I met my lovely hosts for a breakfast in Lerwick and afterwards I just crossed the supermarket parking space to get to Clickimin Broch situated in a little loch in Lerwick. “Broch” is Scottish and means “fort“. They are defensive structures from the Iron Age and are round tall buildings with a spiral […]
It was late afternoon when we arrived back from Mousa and I wanted to use the sunny day to add another little walk around St. Ninian´s Isle. But imagine my surprise, when I arrived on the other side of Shetland, went down the cliffs and suddenly there was a thick blanket of fog all around […]
Turning towards Shetland Mainland my walk around Mousa was at half point. Following a stone wall, the home of many storm petrels, tiny birds who were flying around and suddenly stopping mid-air, I got a first glimpse of the former houses in Mousa. Mousa has been populated from earliest times through until mid 19th […]