Day 7, 26th August Lerwick Shetland Islands

 

A bit later start today as we didn’t arrive in Lerwick until 10.00am so we had a leisurely breakfast whilst waiting for the ship to lower the tenders to go ashore. Was a lovely day weather wise no rain and not to cold so good for sightseeing. After getting off the tender we had a look around and found a pub with free WIFI then walked up to see the lovely old shops in the town from there we walked past the wall of the old fort and on to the beautiful police station and town hall which was built in 188. The hall is credited with having some gorgeous, stained windows some of which are supposed to be the best in Britain, we would have liked to had a look inside the hall but they had a wedding on so we couldn’t go in they had a piper out the front. From there we walked back to the dock and after a while managed to get a taxi driven by Michael who took us on a tour first up was the Broch of Clickimin which is a very well preserved stone round house and over 1000 years old, these stone round houses are only found in Scotland. From there we went on to Galloway which was beautiful and home to a very old Castle that they are currently renovating to make it safe for visitors, it would have been great to see inside as Michael said it has lots of history attached to it. We also looked at quite a few beautiful parts of the countryside as well as Shetland ponies and Scottish sheep before returning to Lerwick for a last look at the town this town has very strong ties to the Vikings with quite a lot of history.












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  1. Matt Allan28 August 2023 at 18:47

    I love Scottland, looks like you guy's are having a great time.

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