Fair Isle Shetland

🎥 WATCH: One-way road trip, a NorthLink ferry, and a 20-minute puddle jump later… We made it! Adventure unlocked. . × Think Norway meets Hawaiian islands and Father Time and Mother Nature have a field day. Far Out Yet Still Close No man is an island, as John Donne wrote, but, north of the border, you can live on one—Scotland’s. The Shetlands are good like that, with 15 inhabited islands to choose from. We are here in Fair Isle—Britain's most remote one. It feels like we are moving through paintings as the ever-changing weather lights the landscape in unique and splendid ways. Thanks to the popularity of the TV series Shetland , we had it on our radar. Of the 115 islands in the archipelago, just 15 are inhabited. We are now on Fair Isle. First, Sarah and I flew into Lerwick (Shetland’s mainland) via Edinburgh. Then we got a PCR test for Covid—think: positive vibes, negative resul...

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Far Out Yet Still Close Far Out Yet Still Close No man is an island, as John Donne wrote, but north of the border, you can live on one. Scotland's. The Shetland's is good like that, with 15 inhabited ones to choose from. We are here in Fair Isle, Britain's most remote one. Thanks to the popularity of the TV series Shetland , we had it on our radar as a place to visit this year. Of all the 115 islands in the archipelago, just a few—15—are inhabited. We're going to Britain's most remote island: Fair Isle. First, Sarah and I fly into Lerwick, Shetland's mainland, via Edinburgh, Scotland. Next, we get a PCR test for COVID (Think Positive, Test Negative). Then, we continue on to Fair Isle — population 55, now 57! What a place to self-isolate during the global pandemic! At first, I thought Fair Isle was the Faroe Islands (that's Danish and in the sub-Arctic Circle). But the Shetland Isles are in the North Atlantic, clos...

Instagram and Featured Image Looking at these chalky cliffs which form part of the English coastline facing the Strait of Dover and France. The Disney Magic docked in the background. Don't get too close Sarah! It was the best of vibes. It was the worst of vibes. We waited for 2020 to have that perfect vision. Nobody could predict what they'd be seeing and doing this year—washing our hands constantly, wearing a mask and social distancing because of the global plague. Summer sailing in the Norwegian Fjords, The Baltics or through Alaska's wildlife super highway, Glacier Bay are on pandemic event time—no one knows when it will end. Tis the Caribbean sailing season but all fleets have come to a grinding halt, until sometime in 2021. DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP.