Sarah McBurnie's "See Shetland" Page

'What and Where' On Shetland

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*Travelling to Shetland:* *Checking the Weather:* Tourism on Shetland: News on Shetland: Shetland Music: Shetland Books on Amazon:	Shetland Genealogy: Where to Stay: Mail Order Products: Photographic Shetland: *The Unst Bus Shelter:* *Devil's Gate:*
*Thordale Icelandic Trekking Centre:*

Contact your local Travel Agent for details of travel arrangements to Shetland - but also check with Shetland Travelscope, to confirm that you've got the best price.

Travelling
to Shetland:

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Access to Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Denmark and Norway is provided by Smyril Line.

Sea transport to Shetland has been provided by NorthLink Ferries' fleet of ships since 1st October 2002.

Make sure that you book well in advance (online) if you want a cabin.

Access to Shetland by air is now provided by LoganAir. Regular flights are scheduled between Aberdeen and Sumburgh Airports.

S.I.C. Inter-Island Ferries

( General Travel Information)

Travel from island to island is by means of the Shetland Islands Council ferry services. Click this link to view the latest timetables.

For those of you who prefer to drive yourselves around,
Bolts Car Hire may be the right people to speak to.

Checking the weather:

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BBC Shipping Forecast
Local weather forecast
Local Tides

Click here for a BBC Shetland weather forecast, to help you to plan your holiday activities and tours.

Click here for the BBC Shipping Forecast - Shetland's local weather system is part of Fair Isle and Faeroes.

Graham Storey's
ShetlandTourism.com
website - a good source of Shetland information.

Visit Shetland's new website
- another good source of Shetland information.

Tourism on Shetland:

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Dennis Bundy's OriginArt webpage offers you a fascinating, free virtual tour of the whole of Shetland.

It also includes a great deal of useful information on holiday accommodation and transport.

Visit Mousa Broch with Tom Jamieson's Mousa Boat Trips - also available here in 'virtual' form.

Take a trip around Unst's Muckle Flugga lighthouse on one of Edmund Nicloson's 'Muckle Flugga Charters' boats.

Shetland's own local radio station - tune in for informative local news, and music 24 hours a day.

News on
Shetland:

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Shetland's online (and so far only) daily newspaper. Click the image for up-to-date Shetland news.

Shetland's main newspaper - click the image-link for up-to-date Shetland news, property and jobs online.

Click to enlarge - the image shows the Pipe Band on Hillhead, with the 2003 Jarl Squad in the background.

The backbone and mainstay of the Lerwick 'Up Helly-Aa' Fire Festival celebrations, which were held during the stormy and wet January of 2003.
Watch out for this year's Up Helly-Aa celebration, on Tuesday January 27th.

Lerwick
Pipe
Band:

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Da Fustra

Da Fustra - possibly Shetland's longest-running Ceilidh Dance Band, from 1969-present. You can find their CDs at High Level Music just off the Market Cross in Lerwick.

Amazon.co.uk offers a large number of Shetland book titles, many of them relating to the tour topics that can be found on these webpages (for example, 'Heirloom Knitting'). You can browse these titles and buy them from here, at discount prices.

Please use the 'Back' button on your browser to restore this page, when you've finished searching Amazon's list.

Books
about
Shetland:

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The Shetland Genealogy website and its links may help you to track down your ancestors. Information resources include links to trade directories, Parish and Probate Records, tombstone inscriptions, obituaries, tax lists and wills.

Shetland
Genealogy:

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Holiday Accommodation:

*Breiview Guest House*	*Lerwick*
Arisdale Guest House	Lerwick - higly recommended
*Glen Orchy Guest House*	*Lerwick*
*Self-Catering Shetland*	*Lerwick*
Setterbrae	Scousburgh, South Mainland
*Stobrek Self-Catering*	*Hillswick, Northmavine*
*Nilmurhaa Self-Catering*	*South Nesting*
*Baltasound Hotel*	Unst
Buness Country House	Unst
*Quam B&B, Westsandwick*	Yell - highly recommended

Where to
stay on
Shetland:

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View and buy some outstanding panoramic and art-effect photographs of the Shetland Islands at John Pedley's Panoramic Photographic Prints website.

Photographic
Shetland:

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When you travel to Unst, you'll visit Jane Macaulay's Unst Bus Shelter at Baltasound - it's one of many interesting stopping-places on the Unst & Yell tour.
Do sign the Guest Book.

The Unst
Bus
Shelter:

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The TV film 'Devil's Gate' was shot on location in Shetland during January 2002, and was screened recently in Lerwick. Click the image to find information on the 'Devil's Gate' DVD.

Devil's
Gate:

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Thordale Icelandic Trekking Centre:

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Also see 'Reflections of Shetland'

Shetland's premier equestrian and riding establishment; located at Mid Walls on the Westside.

This webpage is a frame element of
'See Shetland Tours'.