Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland Cruise Port - Water shuttle port day without any preplanning.

We are on a 14 night Icelandic & Norwegian Fjords Princess cruise. But one of our stops was taking us to Lerwick in the Shetland Islands. Lerwick is the main town and port of the Shetland archipelago, Scotland.
Lerwick is a name with roots in Old Norse and its local descendant, Norn, which was spoken in Shetland until the mid-19th century. The name "Lerwick" means bay of clay. The corresponding Norwegian name is Leirvik, leir meaning clay and vik meaning "bay" or "inlet".
We had big plans to walk around this town to see as many sights as we could. We knew we wanted to visit Commercial Street, Market Cross, Bain's Beach, the Lodberrie, a building dated about 1772 was a place where boats unloaded their goods and sold them on the streets, and the Tolbooth building that sits along the waterfront with a clock tower on top, and finally Fort Charlotte.
Lerwick is a water-shuttle port and we weren't able to get off ship as early as we wanted. And when we finally did, it started to rain. The rain continued off and on interrupting our plans to explore so we opted for a bit of shelter at the Grand Hotel Bar & Lounge... come along with us on our journey.

[@disrn6862]

Such a nice quaint town

[@hubbardsjourney]

Hi Kelly, Thank you for your comment and for coming along on our journey around the world.

[@dianacarragher5845]

Hello Mike I can't keep track of you it looks so cold I love Scotland but hav' nt been to the Shetland Islands love to hear where you 're of to next Safe travels both of you Love from Sydney.

[@hubbardsjourney]

Hi Diana, I can't believe you haven't been to the Shetland Islands. We are cruising the Arctic Circle. We are currently in Iceland. We have so many videos to post but, these back to back port days give us no down time to work. Thank you for checking in :)

[@dianacarragher5845]

@@hubbardsjourney Thanks for your reply I hsve been all over Scotland stayed in the highlands also Aberdeen the granite city Gavin's father was born in Edinburgh in Comely Bank Ave so we have Scottish roots will follow ypour travels Love from Sydney.

[@CarnivalCruiseAddicts]

Beautiful port!

[@hubbardsjourney]

It really is! Thank you for your comments and coming along on our journey around the world.