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 […]
Even when you are already on an island there are still so much more islands to visit. I´ve already seen the Island of Mousa lying next to mainland Shetland while driving from Lerwick to my lovely Airbnb and on day two it was time for a visit. The Mousa boat was just a shirt drive […]
On my way home from Jarlshof I made one further stop – at St. Ninian´s Isle. St. Ninian´s Isle is a small tidal island on the south-western coast of Shetland and connected to mainland Shetland with a “tombolo”. A tombolo is a narrow piece of sand connecting an island to the mainland – the tombolo […]