Lerwick and Scalloway, Shetland Islands

 

In the summer holidays, Alessio and I managed to get to Scotland for two weeks and we did a mini trip to the Shetland Islands.

We took an overnight ferry from Aberdeen to Lerwick, which takes around 12.5 hours. Due to Covid 19 the ferry was not as busy as normal. Once we arrived, we drove off and found a nice cafe to have breakfast. Then we headed to our apartment to settle in and have a rest, as we didn't´t sleep so well on the ferry. The seas were quite rough and I had a terrible bout of sea-sickness.

The apartment was near the centre and it was very nice too. The couple who owned it were, gave us some touristic suggestions for the island. Eating options were few and far between but we ate dinner twice in the Lerwick Hotel and the food was really fantastic and we also found the cafe Fjara also very good.

Lerwick is the biggest town in the islands, it had some lovely shops and we all bought a number of local produce. If you are a fan of the TV show called Shetland, which is based the books by Ann Cleeves (she also writes the Vera books too). Then you will be interested in the last photo which the outside of Jimmy Perez's house. He is the main detective in the show played by Douglas Henshall, if you haven't seen the show or read the books I would recommend both.

Scalloway is another small place we visited, we visited the castle ruins and a had wee wonder around but as it was Sunday nothing was opened. It was a fleeting visit as there was not too much to see. Scalloway photos start from the colourful houses until the penultimate photo.

I am pleased that I was able to visit the Shetland islands and can add it to a growing list of Scottish islands I have seen.

I will be having one week off again next week and will be staying in Switzerland and doing a few trips with Alessio.

Enjoy the rest of the week

Views From Lake Zurich

Well long time no see, I finally decided to try to get back into blogging. Well let's if I really will after all.

Let us go back to the Spring holidays, we were supposed to have gone and a cruise but as we all know that was quite impossible to do. Instead I went walking up and down the lake, enjoying the sun. It was actually pretty dam warm in April. I did not walk huge amounts and sometimes took a book along too. It is really a lovely lake and some great views. 

I did manage to get to Scotland in the summer holidays and have lots of lovely pictures of the Shetland Islands. I will post them eventually. In October, I have one week off and we will be staying in Switzerland and seeing some sights here.

So this is goodbye for the moment, see you all soon