My wife and I visited Shetland for a week in August of 2023. We took the Northlink ferry from Aberdeen. It was like a mini-cruise. We actually had James Tait as our guide for a day! He's such a knowledgeable and amiable person. We also spent an afternoon with David and Isla at the Shetland Rural Experience. They were such warm and friendly hosts. We later went to Papa Stour Island with Captain John Anderson of Simmer Dim tours. All we can say is that Shetland does not disappoint! The people are so friendly, and all of the guides and tours went over and above to make our time there unforgettable. One thing that they don't mention in this video is that you can actually rent the Light Keeper's Cottage at Sumburgh Head, which is what we did! Talk about amazing accommodations. It was a once-in-a-lifetime trip! We love Shetland.

We named our two puppies from Lilongwe in Malawi, Muckle Flugga ! One day very much hope to visit their namesake. Really enjoyable program.

blessings to all the people living in the Shetland Islands

O Shetland through thine eternal greyness Thou shall live in the greatness of calm

I love how the two adult males keep the young one safely between them, how dear is that? Mammalian love, the best thing ever to evolve on earth.

I lived and worked in Shetland in the early 1990s and I returned frequently throughout that decade for holidays. This year was my first visit back to the islands in over twenty years, and it reminded me immediately why I miss the place so much. The folk in this video are absoulety right about Shetland getting into your soul, and how hard it is to leave. Already booked my holiday here for 2024!

It’s an incredibly beautiful place and the historical remains of human occupation are amazing. I hope to visit one day!

In year 2000 I visited Shetland on me own. Me wife stayed at home in Stockholm. Among many other things of wonderful experiences was the fact that I met a beautiful, smart, funny and lokal danceteacher. Though nothing realy happend I was crying al the way back to Bergen with the ferry.😊 It was however a wonderful week and I will carry Shetland i me hart as long as I live.❤️

@brianbrooking496

6 ай бұрын

Nothing “really happened” so what happened brother? I won’t tell your wife, mums the word! Scouts Honour

And absolute fantastic video. I would not miss the fast food places or the malls. I don’t go to them anyway.

I had ancestors whom came from the Shetland Is. Whom immigrated to Otago, New Zealand 1850s-1860s

Utterly magical!

Really enjoyed this promo from my homeland ❤

I knew the guy who was killed on the A38 a few years ago who used to be a teacher in Shetland, he was my music teacher at a special needs school in the 90s. The thing was he was killed right near where I used to live. He was called Ian Perry. I only found out when I looked him up! RIP Mr' Perry, you'll be missed!

I go twice a year, a month in May/June and a month September/October have been doing that for many years and still look forward to returning again in May 2024 - for five weeks 🙂 Usually spend two weeks on Unst and the other two on the mainland. Visit for as long as you can, its a small area on the map but huge when you get there.

Love this promo of Shetland ❤ beautiful presentation, like go go Shetland now…. But will do later, think Unst is my favorite, looking for viking heritage. I also live on island community in Norway (but connected to mainland with a bridge) with the Atlantic Ocean as neighbor, so feel familiar with the plenty of space and few human beings 🥰

@magnushutchison4920

7 ай бұрын

Have you ever visited? you're more than welcome here! you'll feel right at home i'm sure, especially with Shetlands close ties to Norway, for seeing anything viking related Unst is for sure the best!

Beautiful 😍 What a great place to visit for nature and wide open spaces. The video is kinda relaxing. Nice harp music as well. 🪹🪶🎶

I holidayed in Shetland May 23, it gets into your soul, by far my best holiday, so diverse, steeped in history. Being from Wales it took awhile to get used to no trees, which now I realise sets off Shetland’s beauty. Planning to go back, Fair Isle next on my list. If you visit take binoculars, wildlife is spectacular.

@richardhyde6418

3 ай бұрын

Tree's spoil the view LOL....Albertan's say that here in British Columbia.....as we have so many trees and valleys.

This is so interesting. I LOVE THIS

The land that stole my heart ❤

Love visiting Shetland . Got my son daughter in-law and 3 grandsons up there in Lerwick.

absolutely brilliant

This makes me want to visit. Canada shares many of the same wildlife. Orcas, Puffins, Loons (much like the Great Northern Divers) I hope to make it to the Shetlands one day.

Such a great video with a great presenter. Really captures some of the reasons why Shetland is such a special place. Lucky enough to have taken 7 group trips there this year, 2 more to go. I am adding this video to the list of things I send to guests as a reminder of their trip.

Amazing place. Its lovely place🇧🇷

Beautiful scenery, and affordable and visitable from the UK due to its close proximity. Thanks for sharing thee video:)

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Seeing the spectacular views of the precipitous cliffs everywhere with no safety fences I presume that Shetlanders and visitors frequently fall off them, thus explaining the relatively small size of the population.

@bushchat28d

5 ай бұрын

No, it doesn't. People are more sensible than you presume.

Thank you Kate for a very warm, emotional presentation of paradise on earth. What a spectacular scenery where ever you turn to.

Just got back from spending 6 weeks up there September and October my 4th visit

On our list for our next holidays in 2025 - we go away every 2 yrs......looking forward to it, so watching everything I can find....think I will invest in some good walking shoes/boots too

Interesting 👍😁🤩🍀thank you.

An amazing place beautifully presented . An outstanding documentary.

@nigelcrisp68

7 ай бұрын

I agree, Kate does a wonderful job here, and her English Coastal Walks were equally stunning and well presented.

I wish you had also focused on Shetland products and artcrafts. Beautiful ❤

Furthest ive been is Orkney which loved travelled there in 1987

I left a comment about tree planting projects, hoping that Kate might have touched on that. Seems to have been taken down 😢

What a beauty natires .natures

I read about this in the Shet news this morning. Thankfully, I found it as it never alerted on youtube. I do have a question... In the old maps of Shetland OS25 inch map 1892... Clickimin Loch was called Loch of Clickhimin. Why was the 'H' dropped?

@annemoncrieff3875

7 ай бұрын

Anglicising, can't leave colloquial language alone. Nowadays they can't leave any word alone.

This place looks beautiful, but it is too cold for the taste of a Brazilian accustomed to temperatures between 20° and 40° Celsius.

Are there any paths to walk like on the Isle of Skye?

Funnily enough, if this lady listens to Doreen Carwithin's Suffolk Suite, she may be able to put an = meeting with Shetland, the gentleness of the movement.

Often is the case. Pple come for a few weeks and don't leave. Then u get the ones who just plain hate it. As Prince used to say about the cold where he stayed 'keeps the bad pple away'. Glad this was filmed prior to wind farm which has just ruined the central mainland. This shld have gone to caithness not to small island like this. What about all the migrating birds who will be killed by the blades? For a place renowned for birds, unbelievable they've done this.

@magnushutchison4920

7 ай бұрын

agree, the wind farm is disgusting.

@RubenKemp

6 ай бұрын

Highest sustained average wind speeds I believe, but I am sure cost of land has something to do with it too. Money rules.

@annemoncrieff3875

6 ай бұрын

@RubenKemp I am sure caithness cld have held its own Flat barren peat land. Not so reliant on tourism, bird watchers etc as shetland is. Not a small area to be so obviously destroyed. I saw a documentary lately on the amount of songbirds killed in one night in chicago cos they flew into a glass building, 1000!! A statistical record from 2014 showed a billion birds killed migrating in usa alone. Imagine what it is like worldwide it's incredible there's any left at all. We r fishing the seas empty for them and other fish. We r heating up the oceans as well as icebergs melt desalinating the water.

@jeanbrown8295

6 ай бұрын

I am sad to hear about the wind farm,it will kill a lot of birds.I lived in the Shetlands for nearly 4 years and I loved it

@JustTheFlecks

3 ай бұрын

Wind farms are the worst… bird killers, noisy, and not an efficient way to make electricity.

I am going to Shetland in June. Can anyone recommend a good set of binoculars to see the wildlife.

@helenporter7584

5 ай бұрын

Depends on how much you wish to spend. RSPB own brand bins are good value for money.

The divers are Red Throated not Great Northern…

Talking, talking talking, show us the islands!

It's a place to visit not to live. I will prefer to live there only when life on earth cease to exist.

I used to live in shetland, my sheep were stolen, my storage barn broken into by thieves, the people were pi55 takers (not all) and i could`nt wait to move away. France is so much better.