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The weather forecast was poor so we thought we'd make this the day to "do" Lerwick and the Shetland Museum. First up a big thank you to The Dowry for doing good food and allowing our doggie in - a bit of a first for Shet…

As we couldn't get a ferry to Westray until tomorrow, we used today to visit Kirkwall museum (as it had been closed when we were here last Sunday). A great little museum albeit slightly confusing at the start. However, i…

Ferry across to Bressay to park up for the night ahead of a "last night on Shetland" visit to Lerwick later this evening. Liz took the opportunity to visit the Shetland Textiles Museum.

A walk from Eshaness Lighthouse in Northmavine on the Shetland mainland. Along the coast from the lighthouse for a bit and then back inland a bit to visit a collapsed broch in the middle of a lake (or should than be loch…

A long drive to get to the Peak District. Fine until we got to Birmingham and then it all got a bit gnarly. And the traffic slowed down a lot too. So about five and a half hours to get to the southern peak district. So j…

As the ferry from Unst had been delayed half and hour, it was a quick drive across Yell to be in time for the ferry from Yell back across to the Shetland mainland. Could see some disturbed water on the mainland side of Y…

Back from Unst to Yell.

The fog was so thick in the morning that we abandoned plans for a walk to Northwick and the space station and proceeded on a campervan tour of wherever on Unst happened to be visible at the time. So a really well done re…

A walk round from Uyeasound to Muness Castle. The walk round the bay was a bit tough with rough, boggy ground and no real track. Add to that the limited room around the geos, the sheep and Tye's taste for sheep and we we…

We thought we'd zip across Unst to "do" the Hermaness National Nature Reserve and see Muckle Flugga (the most northerly bit of the UK - give or take). While we knew that Hermaness would be special we had an ulterior moti…

Up the east side of Yell (getting lost once of twice) and failing to find a place to park up to take Tye for a beach walk. So then across on the ferry from Gutcher on Yell to Belmont on Unst

We were staying the night at the community owned and rather lovely Burravoe marina and camp site. So we went for a walk round and had tea an cake at the Old Haa Museum and garden (with its rock statues). Then for a walk…

Up from Lerwick to the north half of Shetland to catch the ferry from Toft on the mainland to Ulsta on Yell.

Back from Bressay to Lerwick on the mainland. Tye met his mate from the pub the previous night working on the ferry.

The weather forecast (fog and heavy rain) wasn't too encouraging for a stomp round Bressay so we did a campervan tour of the island instead. Started with the lighthouse at the southern end and then had a look over the Is…

Short walk around Mail in Bressay. Lunch at the excellent community run Speldiburn Cafe.

Little ro-ro ferry across from Lerwick to Bressay for a couple of nights. Passed all the TV/film trucks for the filming of the next "Shetland" TV series.

With a decidedly iffy weather forecast we abandoned plans for a big yomp around Scalloway for a small wander round the town and visiting the museum. The museum was small and interesting and majored on the "Shetland Bus"…

Bit more of a lazy day today. We'd planned a bit of a stomp around the peninsula south of Sandwick. Started well but Tye hound had other ideas and pulled like a bastard, ate all the sheep shit and spent too much time try…

While I was off swanning around Ronas Voe, Liz took Tye for some quality time on Muckle Roe. Lots of photos but no GPS track of that so here's a GPS track and some photos of our rather lovely campsite / marina. Here's L…

A truly superb day out kayaking on Ronas Voe on the north west of Shetland. Organised by Jason of Sea kayak Shetland - https://www.seakayakshetland.co.uk/ - and thoroughly recommended. The geology is amazing with cliffs,…

With the news that we've sprung a leak at home, the leisurely trip home was cancelled and we left York a day early to head home. Two hundred miles is about a much as we want to do in the van in a day so we stopped at the…

You'd think after 5 weeks in Orkney and Shetland we'd have had enough "seal spotting" but a stop off at Newburgh Seal Beach proved otherwise. Hundreds of them hauled out on the beach for a rest at the entrance to the Riv…

So today was the day it all started going wrong... We never thought we'd manage to get away for 2 months in the Orkneys and Shetland. Would our 20 year old campervan terminally fail it's MoT (it passed first time, next t…

Back into England (just) and another take on the walk up to Kielder Skyspace and Kielder Observatory. The local campsite had "front page" news about the appearance of the dreaded midges so we togged up and applied the "S…

Another stomp around Edinburgh - this time with the aim of getting Liz back to Arthur's Seat. Stopped at Holyrood for a coffee and a laugh at the entrance prices for the Palace. Then on to Arthur's Seat where I "mutinied…

Doing the tourist thing in Edinburgh. Princes Street, Royal Mile and Calton Hill. Didn't bother with going in to the castle itself. Good buses from the campsite (Mortonhall) to the centre of Edinburgh and Tye does appear…

Down from Drumnadrochit to Pitlochry on the A82 alongside Loch Ness and the Caledonian Canal. Then the A86 along Glen Spean and the A9 though Glen Garry. All very picturesque and Scottish! Into Pitlochry for some wanderi…

OK - so Fraserburgh wasn't our bestest ever choice for a night's stopover. We didn't really give it a fair chance - it was raining and the food wasn't too inspiring (please no - not another fish and chips!). And then the…

A good walk round three Scottish forestry ancient Caledonian pinewood walks in Glen Affric. Another case of going back to Liz's childhood holidays. Then we tried Plodda Falls which was a big mistake - worst road we've ev…