That was really fun. Thank you. I met the girl who became my wife in Shetland, in 1974, when I came up from England for the fiddle music. Spent three summers in a row working at Shetland Seafoods, where the Mareel complex is now. One of my abiding memories is of getting thrown out of The Planets along with a Glaswegian friend of mine - in a perverse kind of way, I'm rather proud of that achievement, but I'm a reformed character these days. My wife and I live in Australia now. We came over for a visit in 2012 after we read about Mareel on the internet. I'd forgotten how strong - and constant - the wind is. I remember the Sullom Voe refinery being built, went to see it on our visit, and drove up to Muckle Flugga, first time on Unst. I was in that northernmost shop. Shetland certainly is a special place and long may it be so.

@katy3901

4 жыл бұрын

This was wonderful to read. I hope Australia's treating you well!

@itsonlyacommentsnowflake3346

4 жыл бұрын

Nice story, thanks for sharing.

@Blue24Osprey

Жыл бұрын

Interesting reading your memories, thanks. 1974 huh - long time ago.......

Ah, you know it's a great place when you have to pause the video halfway through to look up how much the flights there will cost. :D

@defalt_11x26

8 жыл бұрын

The flights are as bumby as you can get so get there with your own windy risk but it's worth living here

@rachhwburns3546

3 жыл бұрын

Spoiler- loads

@shrutijoshi421

3 жыл бұрын

@@defalt_11x26 q

Nothing like a short vacation to a place I'll never be able to afford to get to! Thanks!

Idk how many times I’ve watched this but it’s amazing!! Living on shetland from mainland been here for 1 and a half years best choice ever made... ❤️

@PromoteShetland

5 жыл бұрын

Excellent! Glad you hear you're loving Shetland :)

Really enjoyed this video and wee look at Shetland! We are planning a month to Scotland as our once in a lifetime holiday - and Shetland is on the list of "must see" - hope to spend at least a week there. Thank you for the video from fans in Canada!

Wonderful. Watching this on a bus in western Australia, can't wait to get back!

Came to this by way of researching the locales in Ann Cleeves's books, of course. What a super video -- charming and clever and very funny. Makes me want to leave my apartment in NYC and wander through Shetland.

This made me laugh so hard and is really well-produced. Thanks for sharing.

Very well done and funny! I am looking forward to spend part of my sabatical next year on Shetland isles. I will watch out for this guy with remarkable sideburns.

Brilliant! Brought back lots of memories.

AZee da best advert for Shetland i'm seen fur a start - superb

My father was born in the Shetland, and I have many great memories of summer holidays in the islands.

What a great wee film. Well done JJ, Bryan, Joanne, Stevie and all the team. I lived there for many years and worked with all these great people in the Bongshang days. I miss the place so much, without doubt the best place I have, or will ever live, and I have lived and worked in lots of countries. All the very best to you all and have one in the Lounge for me.

Loved that video! Shetland will always hold a special place in my heart 😍

we, an american married to a brit and living near london....yuk....havent had a vacation in 4 years.....we discussed everything from germany to spain....but after 2 vacations in scotland about 6 and 8 years ago, we talked, hubby gave free reigns and i picked shteland to consider first. well, we LOVE to laugh and i can honestly say the A TO Z video has me sold....and with very little prodding, i am sure i can convince my husband to take the ride up and out in April [knowing it will still be chilly, yes] to as far in the islands as we can manage!!!! Thanks for the laughs and the introduction.....getting excited already for the probable trip north!!!

@kerrypeterson554

9 жыл бұрын

We hope to see you here!

That was absolutely brilliant! Hilarious and informative at the same time.. thanks for making and sharing. From Hermanus, South Africa. (Almost the most Southerly town in Africa)

Shetland. The good lady & I first visited in the early 1990s. Only really meant to go once. We have been back on twenty three occasions.

Thanks, I want to visit Shetland more now 😃💙

One of the best videos I’ve seen on KZread. Very professional! I’m hoping to go to Unst in January to see where my dad was stationed at Saxa Vord, Thank you!

*Drehbuch & Konzept: Kamera, Ton und Schnitt SUPER! Dankeschön Bangkok-Johnny*

Looks lovely! Can't wait to visit.

Thank you for this great movie !!!

Absolutely fantastic!

You made my day, what a good laugh !

Loved the video and introduction ... got interested because of the detective series Shetland ... Love from India!

Brilliant! Cheered me up.😀

This is wonderful. Thank you! Really useful info and very amusing. You are a crack up!

Brilliant Great Fun!!! I did a removal from RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire to RAF Saxaford. Early Eighties. One of the most memorable journeys in my life. A Wobderful Journey!!! Thank-you for Your Video. FAB😅😜💃💭🤺 PS. Can't wait to Go Back.!!! ⛵🐸🤺

This was hilarious. Thanks for making.

It's plain to see that the craic is mighty in Shetland. Thanks for the video. 👍

I LOVED this! I "learned" about Shetland by watching the TV crime drama by the same name - and now I want to visit - from Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Excellent - going up this weekend - can't wait!

This is hilarious. Great job! 👍❤

I am seeing this for the first time during the event-that-shall-not-be-named.... emmm and dreaming....! Brilliant job!

Great video. Myself and my family are visiting for a holiday and can't wait to visit Shetland.

Wonderfully funny and reminds me of the good times I spent in Shetland.

Lovely Shetland! I love to be there in holidays 😍. Greetings from Germany

That was a great video Seeing Hazel Tindall was the best Looking forward to visiting Shetland again when we are able to😊🇨🇦

Fantastic place and People spent a week there in 2018. Would love to go back for longer.

I really enjoyed this Video,,, gave good Advice with a great dash of tasteful humour,,,

Oh my word, I love a good laugh! :D Looking forward to a visit!

Great video, I'm moving from Glasgow.

Brilliant! Well done.

Very funny, Shetland and our culture down to a t! Well done to all involved in the production.

LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) Thank you !

Thoroughly entertaining video. Well done to all involved.

Thanks a lot for this video. I found it quite informative and fun. It's increased my desire to visit Shetland someday. :-)

Brilliant Bryan & Co, highly entertaining and fuuny as.............. Keep it up, we want more... :)

WONDERFUL!

I love this video. Well done. Shetland's on my list :)

I love it so funny, great piece of work!

Fun and informative. I like it.

I’m headed there soon. Loved the puffin scene. Good on you.

Great fun video. Well Done and informative!

Super video chaps. Thoroughly enjoyed that - one for my bucket list to visit Shetland. What about doing a video for Scarborough or Skermersdale?

hello from algeria Shetland looks amazing, & good video by the way

Loved this

Great video, but I don't have what it takes to deal with the constant cold! Beautiful scenery. Bet the lady knows how to knit a warm sweater. For staying warm nothing beats real wool!

I went there about 9 years ago. I'll have to go back to visit my pa who live in Unst.

Bloody marvelous.

Brilliant!

Brilliant x

Ahhh love that Twatt sign

This is a great video shows Shetland for all people that have never been here before. Definitely worth visiting x

@catc8164

5 жыл бұрын

Vikki Brown i bet, hope to be able to visit this soon. 🤭😁

@vikkibrown1988

5 жыл бұрын

@@catc8164 if you was able to visit you would surely fall in love with Shetland and never want to leave x

Allo from Texas! We will visit hopefully soon!!

Loved the video❤️ from Australia

Thank for your kindness and I'will appreciate your kindness

Very proud to be the 15,000th watcher! Hilarious film - love it. Ready to pack my bags and move north now!

@walshjable

4 жыл бұрын

Hi spiggie i lived in the Spiggie flats in the 80s 4 miles from Sumburgh airport give the area a visit if you ever go stunning

Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just back from Shetlands. Amazing islands. I am probably first Pole motorbiker there ever.Mainland/Yell/Unst 2021.

Brilliant, weel done!

😂 Loved it thanks for sharing ❤

Amusing and informative video.

Incredibly good!

That was hilarious. Can’t wait to visit now.

That was hilarious, thank you for making me giggle. I’d love to visit to experience the culture and community, the landscape, the wildlife, the Simmer Dim and the Aurora Borealis...probably not at the same time🤔. I have seen the Aurora Borealis and the bird life remotely by webcam. By the way were you(presenter) the little boy dressed as a Viking?

Brilliant! :D

Pretty much spot on! :)

3:57 where Jimmy Perez lives

@JodanKenshi47

4 жыл бұрын

Simon George saw that too! Easter egg for the fans

Just brilliant😂❤

Delightful!

This was very informative and the little jokes made this very amusing to watch. I did not know that Shetland is also known as Hjaltland. I might just use that one from now on. One thing that I noticed is that the sign at 3:57 says Leirvík (Old Norse: Muddy Bay). We, in the Faroe Islands and Iceland, still use these nordic words and, here, "leir" means clay, not mud. I don't know if this is a translation error or the word just got changed throughout history.

That was great.

Luvvit! What a great, fun video...

Love Shetland, been there around 20 times, I'd move there if I could.

Hahahah great video.Just watched the crime investigation series Shetland so wanted to know more of the place and your vid really helped 👌👍😂

Good vid. But don't be lulled into thinking it's all sweetness and light up there. The birds run things. If, like me, you knew that birds flew and made nests then going there will open your eyes to the sheer brutalism that they met out to each other and most of all you, the human. Don't know if it was just because I was wandering around on my own or if they just basically didn't like me but I got a great deal of attention from a Bonxie on Mousa, a Tern on Skaw beach and when ever I came within 800m of an oyster catcher they let me know in no uncertain terms with a call from hell itself. Left me a twitching, paranoid mess, on full alert whenever I saw a tern or skua. They look beautiful but punch very much above their weight. Local guy told me to hold a stick above my head, didn't have any problems after that. Learned alot of things about wildlife in the two weeks there, mainly that oyster catchers are dicks. Will be going back at the earliest opportunity

@shenruivah

5 жыл бұрын

This is my favourite comment ever on KZread now.

class video !!

I will be returning to Shetland for a 5 day holiday in May, not driving a truck though...I cannot wait to get back...

Went to skaw beach in unst yesterday. Great beach. But remember not to go swimming in it and norwick beach because of strong underwater currents.

Definite one of the places in the world.

Hello from Southern Italy! :-)

@a0um

5 жыл бұрын

Pietro Paolo why were you watching this, Pietro?

@EnlargedPenis

5 жыл бұрын

@@a0um Pietro can watch whatever he wants bro.

@marekskawinski191

4 жыл бұрын

The difference between Southern Italy and Shetland is that the latter has no African migrants.

I already miss Shetlands...

Hello from Gothenburg!

I've moved away now but its good to see stuff like this. Great video buoys, PS has Hazel got a son called Neil? And bides in aid? If so I used to play in her house probably in around 89'.

That was fun.....

excellent well done

As a Finn, I appreciate your flag design ;)

10 flights is more than I expected. The area my parents live in only has 2 each way a day. Shetland is obviously alot bigger.

Hah! Very funny! Loved it. I'm fre' Aberdeen ... originally