I lived on the other side of Shetland, in Hamnavoe when I was 8-10 and really didn't realise how lucky I was. 19 years later I still haven't been back but am planning to visit, maybe even move permanently one day.

I visit Shetland and Lerwick i the year 2000. It was one of the best journeys I’v ever made. One of the most beautiful memorys was meeting a very nice dancingteatcher. For a brief moment I had the idea not going back to Sweden.😊❤️ I often think back to that time, some day I will return.😍

This video is excellent!! So well made, well informed too! I’m from shetland and I’m constantly cringing at bad videos with historical inaccuracies but there’s not a flaw in this. Thank you very much sir for this.

@elsie4802

4 жыл бұрын

Rory Johnston Yes I agree! I’m going to Shetland this summer, do you have any recommendations on things I should do/see there?

@christophercarmody7094

4 жыл бұрын

Rory Johnson can you get me fixed up with a Scottish heffer on your island.

@MrBocal

2 жыл бұрын

I live in Split city on Adriatic coast, but I find very inspiring this video of northern Shetland capitol.

@Perthshire

2 жыл бұрын

@@christophercarmody7094 don’t be an ass

@tiagomichel

2 жыл бұрын

I live all the way down in Brazil, but for some reason this Island in Europe got my attention. It is a nice place you live there.

The series SHETLAND made me want to know all about SHETLAND. I wish I could get there from USA. But I doubt I ever will. Thanks for this lovely video!💗💗💗

@GORDONLAWRENCEVIDEOS

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. You may be interested in hunting out the Shetland Tourist Centre. They put out a monthly newsletter, Promote Shetland. It's full of interesting stories of Shetland life. info@shetland.org

@GORDONLAWRENCEVIDEOS

Жыл бұрын

www.shetland.org for the Tourist Office web page.

Such a nice town, thank you very much for sharing it with those of us who enjoy exploring these places still not overrun by the madness of modern life.

@reuben8203

3 жыл бұрын

I live there

@mechajaraxxus3510

3 жыл бұрын

@@reuben8203 Top one, Reuben

Great video! I love Shetland! Thanks for sharing!

I live in California and Shetland is number 1 on my bucket list. Beautiful place.

What a beautiful place to live!! Be proud of where you live!!! This place is beautiful!! Peaceful!!

I´m from Sweden and I´m planning to go to Lerwick in August. Looking forward to it.

@elsie4802

4 жыл бұрын

Ann Bergman Same!! Jag är också från Sverige och ska åka dit i sommar!😊

@GORDONLAWRENCEVIDEOS

4 жыл бұрын

Are you any relation to my favourite film director Ingmar Bergman? I enjoyed visiting Faro and the Bergman centre in 2015.

Planing my 40th birthday trip there in 2028, I’ve been a big fan of the crime show Shetland and just love the natural beauty of the landscape and its amazing historic buildings and towns. Can’t wait to venture there.

My father was posted to Lerwick from Sheerness on the Isle of Sheeppy when I was 7 or 8. We live in the quarters inside Fort Charlotte.

I want to visit the Shetland Islands one day x

@andrewinnes7318

3 жыл бұрын

Nice video music a bit load as hard to hear him speak

Wonderful video. Have always wanted to visit Lerwick. Now I feel I have, thank you

Enjoyed this very much. Thanks.

Would love to see more around UK, whenever possible, thank you once more

Very good thank, lots of information, great images, well done 👍👏

@GORDONLAWRENCEVIDEOS

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your feedback. It is appreciated.

I'm from Glasgow, visited shetlands for work, selling irn bru to cash and carry , such a beautiful gorgeous place x

Great video. I’m so in love with Shetland. I have visited three times and there will be more!

@randomaudio9440

4 жыл бұрын

be happy that you don't live there cause i live there and it is always so cold even in summer it can down to 6 degrees

@iievxlyn_bearii790

3 жыл бұрын

I live there and it’s quite boring

@wendi2819

Жыл бұрын

Lucky you! I'd love to sail across the North Sea there! I love ocean voyages!! It just looks so magical and unique!💗

@loveinthelandfill1124

Жыл бұрын

I love old ladies.

What a gem of a video! I feel as though I’ve visited Shetland yet all I have here in Canada is my Shetland Sheepdog laying at my feet

Well done. Excellent content. Facts and figures not just touristy jargon. Will subscribe to hear more videos. (Australia)

As a Shetlander, I’m very impressed with this video that you made.

@GORDONLAWRENCEVIDEOS

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. I really enjoyed my visit to Shetland and Lerwick.

Good to see the lounge and the queens still there drank in both of them in1979 when I was painting the school great memories

Lovely video. I was there last week.Hazel.

My wish one day is to be able to visit this wonderful place and to place a remembrance poppy on my uncle’s grave in the cemetery above Lerwick.

We were there last summer. Great place!!! Lovely!

@jyotirmayeemaan1830

2 жыл бұрын

Hi , is it cold during april ? And does the daylight stay till 11pm ? Cheers !

Superb quality videos, fantastic to discover, many castle 🏰, thanks for sharing Greetings from Hawaii islands 🏝 ⛵

@GORDONLAWRENCEVIDEOS

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind comment.

Detective Inspector D.I. Perez Drove me Here 😬😬😬

@michaelinkster4977

3 жыл бұрын

Thought he was a fictional character, certainly never knew he drove taxis!

@susannah1948

3 жыл бұрын

Venkat me too!

Very pretty scenery. In some ways, I guess depending on what you do for work, your age, lifestyle choice, etc, it might even be better to live there there in Mainland UK nowadays! Thanks for sharing the video:)

We went to Shetland in 2019, nice memories of Lerwick

Lovely enjoyed we trip to Scotland never been there in shetlands 46 years in Canada

So distant from Britain's mainland, yet still part of us.

Lerwick looks so cute. I must visit this place before I leave earth.

@moodybunns3813

3 жыл бұрын

Yes you must! Great place to visit and live!

@reuben8203

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it ok

I was on North Sea worker in 1986, but I never visited these beautiful islands. I plan to visit this nice place.

excellent video.

Lived there when I was a wee lad in 1978/1979 - went to Dunrossness Primary. That building, with the steps going up from the water, was something to do with smuggling.

@Metal_Dinosaur

3 жыл бұрын

I started in 1981 with Mrs Kemp just missed ye lol

I love Shetland the series. It’s always surprising though that such a peaceful, beautiful place is so crime-ridden. 😂

@davecooper3238

Жыл бұрын

When it comes to murder Shetland has nothing on Midsomer. They have three sometimes four murders per episode.

Was in the Orkneys many years ago, but never made it to the Northern neighbours. Sounds like an Aussie made video. Seems very good. Even Shetlanders say so.

انا في مكان بعيد ولا استطيع الوصول الى هذه البلده الرائعه😢

woo worth to go and see

That hostel looks better than most hotels!

Thank you for that. Beautiful! You should work for TV with your voice. .........👍🗣

I attended the Shetland Simmer Dim Rally on twenty occasions. Lerwick used to have an excellent campsite were we stayed on after the rally. Unfortunately they have built a school on it. Bit of a swizz surrounding that. The Council said they would move the camp to another site in Lerwick. Did not happened because that has been also been built on. The accommodation barges are long gone.

Thank you.

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I live in Brisbane Queensland Australia looking forward to coming in Feb 0f 2022.

@GORDONLAWRENCEVIDEOS

3 жыл бұрын

I am sure that you will enjoy a visit. At the moment though Shetland is in lock down for visitors. Did you know that you can get a monthly newsletter from the Shetland Tourist Office. Hunt out www.shetland.org

@damonturnbull5903

3 жыл бұрын

@@GORDONLAWRENCEVIDEOS I do now. Thank you. I will be subscribing to that.

What's the air quality like without trees?

Have they got a Lidl or Aldi yet? I’ve heard there is a petition for it

What a lovely place to live❤

Lovely wee video...however the rock shown at 4:54 it isn't Runic script but Ogham.

@grahamfleming8139

2 жыл бұрын

An Irish form of writing.

I was wondering. Do flowers grow in Shetland climate. I see very little color in the videos I've seen.

@DiabeticZilla

3 жыл бұрын

as a Shetlander its 50/50 you can easy grow flowers but you dont see alot of wild flowers due to the really bad weather we get alot

@christrickett3291

2 жыл бұрын

They blow away 😅

I’m thinking of going....how long would you recommend?

@GORDONLAWRENCEVIDEOS

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Peter, If you just want to visit the town then a couple of days is fine. However with a rental car there is the opportunity to explore more of Shetland and at least five days would be good. I think that I spent five or six days there and could have done with more time to explore other islands which are linked by regular vehicular ferries. Contact the Shetland Tourist Centre in Lerwick for information. I foudn them to be very helpful nad they sent some useful publications.

@jasonjames6870

3 жыл бұрын

The rest of your life, I didn't want to leave

@christrickett3291

2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonjames6870 But you're David's brother, surely you need to get back to Peckham?

@jasonjames6870

2 жыл бұрын

@@christrickett3291 what are you going on about.

Lerwick comes from old norse "Leirvík" which means "clay bay".

@GORDONLAWRENCEVIDEOS

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I don't think that I knew that.

Well i live in Shetland and i have some different thoughts about where i live

@m.w.

4 жыл бұрын

Do you not feel comfortable? Is it because economic prroblems? It's clear that tourists like us see your isle in a romantic way. ....🤔

At 0:23 you can see the zebra boat i used to love that boat so much idk what happened to it?

@LouiseDuffy91

3 жыл бұрын

It was an accommodation barge called Sans Vitesse - they moved it out of Lerwick and round to the Gas Plant next to Brae if I remember rightly

Have you seen Doug Henshall yet?

@mummyto382

2 жыл бұрын

He is filming at the bottom of my garden near moussa ferry right now 🙂

The Tullochs lived here

What a shame everything is closed on a Sunday. I can understand observing the Sunday trading laws, but as a day visitor desperate to spend my money in Harry's superstore, i had to stare through the window, looking at lovely things i could not buy.

@titanfallsvlogs4898

4 жыл бұрын

Peter Lewis it is a shame really

@minidwarfdude9230

2 жыл бұрын

Gives staff a day off you Baffoon

What are shoals of Hairings .. ?

@vamboroolz1612

3 жыл бұрын

They are herrings for people that have never heard of them🤔🤔🤔😉

ı was chillin on the google earth and ı found this place on an ısland this is beatıful

Ridgeline

G Granny was a Shetlander !

Reminds me to Svalbard.

@GORDONLAWRENCEVIDEOS

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting suggestion but it lacks the surrounding mountains and snow, polar bear warnings and general lack of vegetation. But both locations are really fascinating to visit.

@TheGrmany69

4 жыл бұрын

@@GORDONLAWRENCEVIDEOS Well, they certainly look similar, and well Svalbard has dwarf reindeer and Shetland has ponies, haha. salutes from Venezuela.

A Scottish tune would be more appropriate at 1.40.

But where are the ponies??

I’m Dutch. Sorry for making a mess of your fortress.

@GORDONLAWRENCEVIDEOS

Жыл бұрын

All is forgiven.

If English people move over, what is the life expectancy? Higher than in Inverness?

Pity the sound track is so disappointing and has so little to do with Shetland. A shame not to employ more of the rich tradition of Shetland fiddle music. The first fiddle tune we hear is a beautiful tune but an Irish tune called Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór composed by Turlough O'Carolan!

@GORDONLAWRENCEVIDEOS

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting to learn that. I recorded it during a musical evening around a hostel table in Skye with a group of local nationalist Scots. I had the impression that everything being played was Scotish. I did bring back some Shetland fiddle music on CD but I try to use royalty free and copyright clear music to aviod issues and You Tube allowing advertising to be atached.

Don’t let the SNP Joke Factory Waste it🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Looks like a decent place with nice weather. Whats it like for colored tourists ate the people there kind to colored people. Dont take my question the wrong way just that once I went to st heiler and people wernt to freiny with coloured people. Thanks

Oh dear; a church turned public library.

@marcfosh3398

2 жыл бұрын

At least its used now.

Shitland?

That place is so f...n depressing

@Samien

3 жыл бұрын

You are not wrong 😑

@carlhilliard677

2 жыл бұрын

I thought so

You could at least pronounce Lerwick the right way.

This narrator can’t spell.

Donald Trump’s mum came from Lerwick.

@Teds991

3 жыл бұрын

She did not. She was born and raised in Tong, Isle of Lewis.

@alexandermenzies9954

2 жыл бұрын

Lynn Cooper is mixed up. As David H says, Mary McLeod came from Tong which is close to Stornoway, Lewis.