Sunday 17 May 2009

Lerwick




Our second day on the Shetlands was reserved for some excursions. But the weather had changed during the night, it was still windy but also cloudy with some rain once in a while. Some of us went to interesting bird-colonies to watch the puffins building their nesting-places, whilst the most had a sightseeing-tour through southern Mainland, where we visited the famous archeological site Jarlshof. We could walk through ruins from stone-age houses, piktish brochs and viking settlements. And of course everybody loved those ponies ...