It’s hard to believe that we have been living in Shetland for 12 months. It certainly isn’t the dark and cold island that friends warned us about. In fact we seem to have had far better weather than down South.
Life is definitely different here, for us it is perfect but if you are into high street shopping then it isn’t the place for you….. There are virtually no clothes shops to speak of but rather strangely a huge number of car showrooms. When it comes to food shopping you need to adopt a more flexible approach as you cannot always get what you want. We have a Co-op and Tesco in Lerwick but if the weather is bad and the boats cannot sail the shelves empty quickly. Saying that Tescos delivers which is handy and the other day I popped in for some mushrooms and had a choice of chestnut, closed cup, wild , portobella, forestiere, shitake and porcini……
Wildlife is superb and we have been lucky enough to spend hours in the company of puffins, gannets, orcas, seals and otters. One of the highlights was a bearded seal that visited Shetland for a couple of a days in November.
