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Covid-19 And The Stiff Upper Lip - Travel Blog Covid-19 And The Stiff Upper Lip A Journey Through Pandemic Times and UK Memories Back in The U.K. after a visit to Ireland. Not talking about The Pandemic is like denying gravity exists. That ostrich approach of sticking our collective head in the sand will not delay or deny the medical catastrophe, the logistics nightmare and the financial Armageddon that each of us experience in our own idiosyncratic ways. Call it malignant optimism, but the shared hallucination that it is "just the flu" is junk science. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger but make no mistake about it: This virus can kill. It doesn't have a brain, but we do. Careers are on hold, people are in limbo, and there are only two ways this epidemic wil...

Fair Isle / Remote Island / Shetland Fair Isle Britain's Most Remote Inhabited Island Farewell Waved goodbye to Fair Isle this morning and took our return flight to Tingwall. Leaving Fair Isle Back to Tingwall Flights leave from Tingwall airport, a ten minute drive from Lerwick. There are flights to the isle each weekday, weather permitting. While 27 miles offshore to the north of Shetland mainland, the island of Fair Isle, the UK's furthest outpost island, is a tiny and breath-takingly beautiful jewel, rich in birdlife and with a dedicated community whose love for their home residents are only too eager to share with the few intrepid visitors who make the journey each year. This time it was Sarah and I, and now we were hopping back over to the Shetland Mainland. Video 01 Fair Isle flight, island life, and the ...

See Video 2020 · The Origin Hinge When the timetable disappeared The Year the Map Broke From Seven Seas to Fair Isle The year opened on Caribbean sailaways and closed on Britain’s most remote inhabited island. Between them came COVID, grounded fleets, a three-day land-yacht run to Yellowstone, a television signal called Shetland , a seven-seat aircraft north, and the discovery that when the old map fails, movement can become more deliberate rather than less. Disney Fantasy Yellowstone Shetland Fair Isle Pandemic 2020 Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir January → December 2020 — What a year It started with Christmas and New Year sailaways on D...