The unofficial A-Z of Shetland

Aimed at those coming to live and work in Shetland and with a sensible dose of humour.
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[@bobcollier001]

That was really fun. Thank you. I met the girl who became my wife in Shetland, in 1974, when I came up from England for the fiddle music. Spent three summers in a row working at Shetland Seafoods, where the Mareel complex is now. One of my abiding memories is of getting thrown out of The Planets along with a Glaswegian friend of mine - in a perverse kind of way, I'm rather proud of that achievement, but I'm a reformed character these days. My wife and I live in Australia now. We came over for a visit in 2012 after we read about Mareel on the internet. I'd forgotten how strong - and constant - the wind is. I remember the Sullom Voe refinery being built, went to see it on our visit, and drove up to Muckle Flugga, first time on Unst. I was in that northernmost shop. Shetland certainly is a special place and long may it be so.

[@katy3901]

This was wonderful to read. I hope Australia's treating you well!

[@itsonlyacommentsnowflake3346]

Nice story, thanks for sharing.

[@Blue24Osprey]

Interesting reading your memories, thanks. 1974 huh - long time ago.......

[@lisachiapputo3178]

Ah, you know it's a great place when you have to pause the video halfway through to look up how much the flights there will cost. :D

[@defalt_11x26]

The flights are as bumby as you can get so get there with your own windy risk but it's worth living here

[@rachhhhhh90]

Spoiler- loads

[@shrutijoshi421]

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[@leahl6625]

Idk how many times I’ve watched this but it’s amazing!! Living on shetland from mainland been here for 1 and a half years best choice ever made... ❤️

[@PromoteShetland]

Excellent! Glad you hear you're loving Shetland :)

[@ThadmanKane]

Nothing like a short vacation to a place I'll never be able to afford to get to! Thanks!

[@jackieshanley5706]

we, an american married to a brit and living near london....yuk....havent had a vacation in 4 years.....we discussed everything from germany to spain....but after 2 vacations in scotland about 6 and 8 years ago, we talked, hubby gave free reigns and i picked shteland to consider first. well, we LOVE to laugh and i can honestly say the A TO Z video has me sold....and with very little prodding, i am sure i can convince my husband to take the ride up and out in April [knowing it will still be chilly, yes] to as far in the islands as we can manage!!!! Thanks for the laughs and the introduction.....getting excited already for the probable trip north!!!

[@kerrypeterson554]

We hope to see you here!

[@lauralbriar]

Really enjoyed this video and wee look at Shetland! We are planning a month to Scotland as our once in a lifetime holiday - and Shetland is on the list of "must see" - hope to spend at least a week there. Thank you for the video from fans in Canada!

[@robrtduke]

Came to this by way of researching the locales in Ann Cleeves's books, of course. What a super video -- charming and clever and very funny. Makes me want to leave my apartment in NYC and wander through Shetland.

[@julia-soloonthetrains2245]

Wonderful. Watching this on a bus in western Australia, can't wait to get back!

[@yayforgreentrees]

This made me laugh so hard and is really well-produced. Thanks for sharing.

[@mariohaase]

Very well done and funny! I am looking forward to spend part of my sabatical next year on Shetland isles. I will watch out for this guy with remarkable sideburns.

[@gslgilber1]

AZee da best advert for Shetland i'm seen fur a start - superb

[@spiggiewiggie]

Very proud to be the 15,000th watcher! Hilarious film - love it. Ready to pack my bags and move north now!

[@walshjable]

Hi spiggie i lived in the Spiggie flats in the 80s 4 miles from Sumburgh airport give the area a visit if you ever go stunning

[@gilmoyes8950]

My father was born in the Shetland, and I have many great memories of summer holidays in the islands.

[@michaeltaylor3358]

One of the best videos I’ve seen on KZbin. Very professional! I’m hoping to go to Unst in January to see where my dad was stationed at Saxa Vord, Thank you!

[@evelynfreeman9215]

What a great wee film. Well done JJ, Bryan, Joanne, Stevie and all the team. I lived there for many years and worked with all these great people in the Bongshang days. I miss the place so much, without doubt the best place I have, or will ever live, and I have lived and worked in lots of countries. All the very best to you all and have one in the Lounge for me.

[@AnkushDey1]

Loved the video and introduction ... got interested because of the detective series Shetland ... Love from India!

[@bevanpope7924]

That was absolutely brilliant! Hilarious and informative at the same time.. thanks for making and sharing. From Hermanus, South Africa. (Almost the most Southerly town in Africa)

[@apexxxx10]

*Drehbuch & Konzept: Kamera, Ton und Schnitt SUPER! Dankeschön Bangkok-Johnny*

[@vikkibrown1988]

This is a great video shows Shetland for all people that have never been here before. Definitely worth visiting x

[@catc8164]

Vikki Brown i bet, hope to be able to visit this soon. 🤭😁

[@vikkibrown1988]

@@catc8164 if you was able to visit you would surely fall in love with Shetland and never want to leave x

[@JOHNNYCRAIG]

Loved that video! Shetland will always hold a special place in my heart 😍

[@bigtonview]

Very funny, Shetland and our culture down to a t! Well done to all involved in the production.

[@thewomenshearth6804]

This is wonderful. Thank you! Really useful info and very amusing. You are a crack up!

[@neilstocks7477]

Brilliant Bryan & Co, highly entertaining and fuuny as.............. Keep it up, we want more... :)

[@Clavinovaman]

Super video chaps. Thoroughly enjoyed that - one for my bucket list to visit Shetland. What about doing a video for Scarborough or Skermersdale?

[@valeriebishop561]

I am seeing this for the first time during the event-that-shall-not-be-named.... emmm and dreaming....! Brilliant job!

[@Tiger99-w3g]

Thanks, I want to visit Shetland more now 😃💙

[@MyWoodrowForever]

I LOVED this! I "learned" about Shetland by watching the TV crime drama by the same name - and now I want to visit - from Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, Canada.

[@raysummers8958]

Fantastic place and People spent a week there in 2018. Would love to go back for longer.

[@3trilogy]

Great video, but I don't have what it takes to deal with the constant cold! Beautiful scenery. Bet the lady knows how to knit a warm sweater. For staying warm nothing beats real wool!

[@monicalifornia_]

This is hilarious. Great job! 👍❤

[@coplandsmith3461]

Brilliant! Brought back lots of memories.

[@pauldormont4470]

Great fun video. Well Done and informative!

[@MEDZI0T0JAS]

Thoroughly entertaining video. Well done to all involved.

[@AMMandrea123]

Looks lovely! Can't wait to visit.

[@ApehangerUK]

Brilliant! Well done.

[@oddities-whatnot]

3:57 where Jimmy Perez lives

[@JodanKenshi47]

Simon George saw that too! Easter egg for the fans

[@NickHewlettTHATCHIT]

Brilliant Great Fun!!! I did a removal from RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire to RAF Saxaford. Early Eighties. One of the most memorable journeys in my life. A Wobderful Journey!!! Thank-you for Your Video. FAB😅😜💃💭🤺 PS. Can't wait to Go Back.!!! ⛵🐸🤺

[@88happiness]

10 flights is more than I expected. The area my parents live in only has 2 each way a day. Shetland is obviously alot bigger.

[@BarneyLeith]

Wonderfully funny and reminds me of the good times I spent in Shetland.

[@anthonyodonnell8724]

This was hilarious. Thanks for making.

[@jeanpierre3930]

Thank for your kindness and I'will appreciate your kindness

[@sonnenhut2868]

Lovely Shetland! I love to be there in holidays 😍. Greetings from Germany

[@toyalauren82]

Fun and informative. I like it.

[@MsWendy0303]

You made my day, what a good laugh !

[@HalgaDoy]

This was very informative and the little jokes made this very amusing to watch. I did not know that Shetland is also known as Hjaltland. I might just use that one from now on. One thing that I noticed is that the sign at 3:57 says Leirvík (Old Norse: Muddy Bay). We, in the Faroe Islands and Iceland, still use these nordic words and, here, "leir" means clay, not mud. I don't know if this is a translation error or the word just got changed throughout history.

[@yakacm]

Great video, I'm moving from Glasgow.

[@civilwheels]

I really enjoyed this Video,,, gave good Advice with a great dash of tasteful humour,,,

[@renderizer01]

It's plain to see that the craic is mighty in Shetland. Thanks for the video. 👍

[@davecooper3238]

Shetland. The good lady & I first visited in the early 1990s. Only really meant to go once. We have been back on twenty three occasions.

[@mary-kittybonkers2374]

That was hilarious, thank you for making me giggle. I’d love to visit to experience the culture and community, the landscape, the wildlife, the Simmer Dim and the Aurora Borealis...probably not at the same time🤔. I have seen the Aurora Borealis and the bird life remotely by webcam. By the way were you(presenter) the little boy dressed as a Viking?

[@op-pv2nn]

I’m headed there soon. Loved the puffin scene. Good on you.

[@normannormiemates4844]

I went there about 9 years ago. I'll have to go back to visit my pa who live in Unst.

[@mrsvickrey]

Thanks a lot for this video. I found it quite informative and fun. It's increased my desire to visit Shetland someday. :-)

[@Julie090995]

Absolutely fantastic!

[@sallydavis739]

That was a great video Seeing Hazel Tindall was the best Looking forward to visiting Shetland again when we are able to😊🇨🇦

[@user-mq2wj7yk6c]

Could you do video in the winter to see how heavy the snowfall can get and to see what the landscape is like when it does

[@PromoteShetland]

You might like this one... kzbin.info/www/bejne/moeXopR_oK57hNU PS we don't usually get much in the way of snow: www.shetland.org/about/climate

[@Peccath]

As a Finn, I appreciate your flag design ;)

[@affalaffaa]

Good vid. But don't be lulled into thinking it's all sweetness and light up there. The birds run things. If, like me, you knew that birds flew and made nests then going there will open your eyes to the sheer brutalism that they met out to each other and most of all you, the human. Don't know if it was just because I was wandering around on my own or if they just basically didn't like me but I got a great deal of attention from a Bonxie on Mousa, a Tern on Skaw beach and when ever I came within 800m of an oyster catcher they let me know in no uncertain terms with a call from hell itself. Left me a twitching, paranoid mess, on full alert whenever I saw a tern or skua. They look beautiful but punch very much above their weight. Local guy told me to hold a stick above my head, didn't have any problems after that. Learned alot of things about wildlife in the two weeks there, mainly that oyster catchers are dicks. Will be going back at the earliest opportunity

[@shenruivah]

This is my favourite comment ever on KZbin now.

[@aussiebritophile9241]

Great video. Myself and my family are visiting for a holiday and can't wait to visit Shetland.

[@Soyouvebeendumped]

I love this video. Well done. Shetland's on my list :)

[@opposite.]

Went to skaw beach in unst yesterday. Great beach. But remember not to go swimming in it and norwick beach because of strong underwater currents.

[@yourforte]

Amusing and informative video.

[@CanadianBardbuddy]

Great video. Would love to visit Shetland one day. If the commentator is any indication, Shetlanders (correct term?) have a similar sense of humour to Canadians.

[@silenced1207]

Love Shetland, been there around 20 times, I'd move there if I could.

[@floridahiker1800]

Its a very entertaining video. How come there's so few trees? The scenery is beautiful. I would like to visit there.

[@beinz589]

What trees?

[@beinz589]

Last time I saw trees in shetland. Was never

[@alanpatey620]

Excellent - going up this weekend - can't wait!

[@rebel7417]

I've moved away now but its good to see stuff like this. Great video buoys, PS has Hazel got a son called Neil? And bides in aid? If so I used to play in her house probably in around 89'.

[@samfischer1970]

Thank you for this great movie !!!

[@macfir8124]

I just back from Shetlands. Amazing islands. I am probably first Pole motorbiker there ever.Mainland/Yell/Unst 2021.

[@jaclynallen6911]

Allo from Texas! We will visit hopefully soon!!

[@jacktillotson1959]

I'm an artist living in Los Angeles. I'm goin to make my way there this year. Burrrrrrrrr!!!!!! Can't wait!!!!

[@silverstartrucker]

I will be returning to Shetland for a 5 day holiday in May, not driving a truck though...I cannot wait to get back...

[@heatherrobertson1652]

Oh my word, I love a good laugh! :D Looking forward to a visit!

[@pietropaolo6188]

Hello from Southern Italy! :-)

[@a0um]

Pietro Paolo why were you watching this, Pietro?

[@EnlargedPenis]

@@a0um Pietro can watch whatever he wants bro.

[@marekskawinski191]

The difference between Southern Italy and Shetland is that the latter has no African migrants.

[@bergjagger]

I love it so funny, great piece of work!

[@adelmeka5552]

hello from algeria Shetland looks amazing, & good video by the way

[@LisaHouserman]

WONDERFUL!

[@stevegoddard9756]

Brilliant! Cheered me up.😀

[@Desertrosesage]

😂 Loved it thanks for sharing ❤

[@noideawhattoput.3908]

Unst has the most northerly stuff but Whalsay has the most northerly 18 hole golf course

[@macfir8124]

I already miss Shetlands...

[@angge4261]

Bloody marvelous.

[@Harlock2day]

excellent video guys, brilliantly told ! Hello from Rome, will visit one day. Any hotels ?

[@grandpasandwich]

Yes

[@chriscoughlan5221]

I fell in love in Lerwick Youth Hostel. She was a Parisian.

[@florence1368]

Loved the video❤️ from Australia

[@aldohook8372]

Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@kimmuirhead6777]

hows about an update? with costs and opportunities? Please :)

[@chelackie]

Hah! Very funny! Loved it. I'm fre' Aberdeen ... originally

[@alterain691]

Right about the fog a 1 hour return trip became 24+ hours by ferry, bus and plane, still a fantastic place to visit though.

[@FarStrider]

Californian sea lions playing common seals lol. The seal puppies are my favourite thing from Shetland

[@magdaolson9295]

Excellent! Excellent! Excellent! Few questions. What's the percentage of visitors from the US? Where are the bagpipes? Where did you get your ideas for the video?

[@iMertin]

They don't play bagpipes in Shetland. Not much Scottish culture in Shetland

[@noideawhattoput.3908]

+Martin that's because we're originally came from Scandinavia

[@Lemanic89]

Hello from Gothenburg!

[@katespin99]

That was hilarious. Can’t wait to visit now.

[@kennethmckay6391]

Remarkable that Shetland also has a Clouston and a Twatt, just like Orkney, weird that

[@Stealthful_]

Definite one of the places in the world.

[@itzzjok3rzz208]

Ahhh love that Twatt sign

[@jgordon6329]

Funny ... I hope to bring my family there one day ... my wife and I both have blood ties to Scotland and Ireland

[@donahbohannon1211]

Loved this! Just one question... What the heck was that thing that represented the letter “R”? 🧐

[@Brianmaitland]

Very well made :)

[@deborahlanemcguire4315]

Delightful!