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Shetland Islands

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
edited January 2023 in General Chat
Sure is far North .. anyone ever been or thought about going?
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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Sweet Jesus. That's so far north it boggles my mind.
  • littlemissylittlemissy Posts: 9,972 Supreme Poster
    I've personally not been but a friend has.

    It is very desolate.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I have a friend that used to live there.

    She reckons it had a population of about ten.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    19 hours of midsummer daylight
    138 sandy beaches
    567 square miles of islands
    639 miles of good roads
    900 amazing miles of coastline
    6,080 archaeological sites
    7,000 years of history
    22,000 people
    46,000 gannets
    200,000 puffins
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I'm surprised we don't seem to have any regular posters from there - I mean what else is there to do there.. :D

    I reckon we should turn it into the next Ibiza!!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ButtonMoon wrote:
    19 hours of midsummer daylight
    138 sandy beaches
    567 square miles of islands
    639 miles of good roads
    900 amazing miles of coastline
    6,080 archaeological sites
    7,000 years of history
    22,000 people
    46,000 gannets
    200,000 puffins


    What about those iccle ponies?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I've been a couple of times. My parents nearly moved us up there when I was little. It is pretty bleak, but some people like that kind of thing. There are some cool archaeological sites. Viking stuff maybe?
    And a castle that I walked round a corner of and got blown over by the wind. It was a strong wind and I was a small child, what can I say.
    And one of the hotels in Lerwick has a swimming pool with a map of the UK tiled into its floor.

    Those being my memories.

    And of course, the iccle ponies.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I went to the Orkneys a lot as a kid, never been to Shetland though.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Your best off going to Jersey, it's quite good there. They have clubs and pubs and have some fit woman (probably more munters though) Shetlands don't have any of that. The weird thing is that in Jersey I couldn't help thinking that everyone was related to each other because they all had the same type of weird teeth
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I want to go...there's a town called Twatt on one of the islands. It would probably take about 4 days to get there though....just for a picture of me grinning inanely by the sign that says "welcome to Twatt" :D
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    lived there for about 18 months..


    very boring.


    no trees!
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