We Went To the Shetlands and Survived
Well, we got home last night, all hot and bothered after 7 hours in the car, most of them in blazing sunshine. The evening was all hot and muggy too so we spent most of the evening complaining about the heat and wishing we were back in the Shetlands where it was a lot cooler. I suppose the only good thing about being home again was being able to have the cats with us again. They were both mega-happy to have been released from the cattery and have been following us about, wanting cuddles, ever since.
We both decided that, if it wasn't for the islands' extreme isolation from the rest of the UK, we'd love to go live there. Then again, the Shelands probably wouldn't be the way they are if it wasn't for the isolation. The standard of living is pretty good thanks to oil money (the Shetlands has a seriously big oil terminal), the scenery is lovely, community spirit is excellent, very little crime, houses are dead cheap, traffic is light... I could go on.
The holiday was great - we did all 6 caches, 6 trigpoints, took over 300 photos (which I'll pare down for a online photo album). Our last cache was on the island of Fetlar (slightly smaller than Guernsey with a population of about 80) - we were the first finders after over a year.
Well, I suppose now I'll have to go boring back-to-real-life stuff like attend to the mountain of washing...
Well, we got home last night, all hot and bothered after 7 hours in the car, most of them in blazing sunshine. The evening was all hot and muggy too so we spent most of the evening complaining about the heat and wishing we were back in the Shetlands where it was a lot cooler. I suppose the only good thing about being home again was being able to have the cats with us again. They were both mega-happy to have been released from the cattery and have been following us about, wanting cuddles, ever since.
We both decided that, if it wasn't for the islands' extreme isolation from the rest of the UK, we'd love to go live there. Then again, the Shelands probably wouldn't be the way they are if it wasn't for the isolation. The standard of living is pretty good thanks to oil money (the Shetlands has a seriously big oil terminal), the scenery is lovely, community spirit is excellent, very little crime, houses are dead cheap, traffic is light... I could go on.
The holiday was great - we did all 6 caches, 6 trigpoints, took over 300 photos (which I'll pare down for a online photo album). Our last cache was on the island of Fetlar (slightly smaller than Guernsey with a population of about 80) - we were the first finders after over a year.
Well, I suppose now I'll have to go boring back-to-real-life stuff like attend to the mountain of washing...
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