John and I set of on another May Bank Holiday Island Adventure to the Shetland Islands and Fair Isle. The Islands visited in Shetland were Yell, Unst, and Bressay, with Fair Isle being visited on Monday, but only for a few minutes as the flight out was delayed by fog and the Pilot could not guarantee being able to come back for us on his second scheduled flight of the day. It was quite strange as there was no fog at either Fair Isle or Lerwick but the diversional airport at Sunburgh was closed so he could not fly until it was clear. We did however land on Fair Isle so can say we have been there. We spent 4 hours sitting at Tingwall Airport in the company of a Russian Artist and a retired BA 747 Captain who between them kept us well entertained. The Russian called Nina was married to a Scot and was going to fair Isle to experiment with some Felt work. She showed us some of her work and it was absolutely beautiful. The BA Captain called Mark Preston was a friend of Alison Hutton's brother Mike and he had piloted a 1930s Hornet Moth Bi-Plane to Shetland and was waiting for the weather to clear so he could fly to Orkney. We started our walking on Friday afternoon on the area of shetland called West Burra which looks like an Island but is joined to the mainland by a narrow spit of land.
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