If you hadn’t already guessed I’ve just come back from another amazing holiday in Shetland 🙂 I was off for the same reason I went last year – Shetland Arts Fiddle Frenzy! It’s an annual week long celebration of Shetland music, art and culture that is centred around Lerwick the main city on the mainland. We’d made lots of firm friends last year and were off to spend another manic week together! The girls were back in town…..
We started off in style, celebrating all of our 30th birthdays. They were a few months ago but it was the first opportunity we’d had to celebrate together. Never one to shy away from a political statement Gemma took us to a ‘disco’ supporting the local ‘Yes’ campaign. When I informed the boyfriend of our plans for the evening he promptly told me to make sure I only ordered water! Needless to say much merriment was had and there was some utterly ridiculous dancing. So ridiculous that when I pulled out the chicken dance we actually scared away the only male in the room brave enough to dance with us!
After a slow start on Sunday we headed down to registration and then to our first class where we’d pulled a lovely straw and ended up with the beautiful Jenna Reid for the afternoon. Needless to say I’ve got noooo idea what tunes she taught that afternoon as the whole week has become somewhat of a blur of tunes and whisky. Either way the weather was good and we were in sunny Lerwick.
Later in the week we headed north to Vidlin for our first excursion of the week. There’s not really a lot to say about Vidlin so here’s some photos instead.
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