I’m lovin’ it……….exclaimed Blake from primary year 1-3 today in the workshop at Lunnasting school, I feel the same.
Spent the morning at the primary school in Vidlin, a north mainland hamlet which is also the ferry terminal for getting to the islands of Out Skerries and Whalsay. The school was a lovely, small friendly place. Shetland is just breathtaking at times, it gets under the skin, literally it catches my breath as I turn around another bend in the road and I am faced with another spectacular view of rich autumn colours and steely water, and everyone I meet is just so nice.
After the workshop I was due to have a meeting with Douglas a fisherman from Out Skerries, we were meeting at Frankie’s the famous fish and chip shop, UK’s best and most northerly. I had some time to spare before so drove through Brae to Mavis Grind which is a narrow strip of land that joins the mainland to NorthMarin, the Atlantic Ocean is on one side and the North sea on the other, the closest the two seas come in the UK. Up until the 1950’s boats were pulled over the land to save having to make the dangerous sail around the top of the northern island.
You can see both seas in this photo. Walking over the peat bogs, Ravi the dog camouflaged in the mosses and heathers.
Then to Frankies for a late fish lunch, finally….
