If anyone is interested in going to Shetland for a tour we have just posted our travelogue of our Shetland tour last summer. If you like good quiet relatively traffic free roads, visiting islands, archaeology and watching wildlife then Shetland is a great place to tour. Oh and the natives are very friendly to .
The main highlights of Shetland for us were:
1.The RSPB bird reserve on Noss. It has an amazing bird life, Bonxies, Puffins, Arctic terns, Arctic skuas, Black guillemots with their wonderful red feet and an enormous gannetry with nearly 12,000 gannets.
2. Sitting on a bench at 2 o‛clock in the afternoon in Mid Yell overlooking the harbour where we watched an otter stroll across the road right in front of us by the post office, run across the beach, have a nose around the harbour jetty before swimming off across the bay. Absolutely amazing!
3. The Keen of Hammar nature reserve, which has some very rare alpine flowers growing in amongst some Serpentine and Harzburgite debris at the extreme height of 45m above sea level and we were delighted to find flowering the very rare Edmondstons Chickweed which is found nowhere else in the world.
4. The Unst Bus shelter, we had seen pictures of this in someone else's cycling blog and we just had to see it for ourselves.
5. Mousa Broch, the most complete broch in Scotland.
Oh and lastly we got involved in a helicopter rescue .
Shetland
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Re: Shetland
Been there several times and recommend it. Warning however do not be too ambitious as it can be very windy and also colder than you expect. On a couple of visits I used winter gear in June. Have a rear led light as it can get very foggy and police are not happy with unlit cyclists on the faster roads in the central area. The visibility can get very bad at times and I would agree that it is dangerous. Generally it is pretty good and conversely can get very hot and sunburn combined with windburn should be guarded against. All the villages have reasonable shops for provisions and as already said the natives are friendly. Go anyway
Re: Shetland
hopefully one day
Convention? what's that then?
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