I left my car parked near Loch Clickimin and walked along the coastline to the city centre of Lerwick. Today Lerwick is the capital and biggest city of Shetland, but until 1830 Scalloway used to be the capital and sheep used to graze the land that is today’s Lerwick. The name Lerwick comes from the […]
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 […]