Thanks Jeff. We were planning a trip this summer to Shetland to meet up with friends from New York. Hopefully next summer.
That took me back Jeff, I lived in Bala for a couple of years when I young. My memories are of roaring around the country roads on a Triumph Bonneville, all these years later I’ve forgotton about the rain and the winters!
i thought i might be able to get up to date with watching all the filums in this wonderful thread, especially as i seem to have a little extra time, but you're not making it easy Jeff! Bless you for doing all this x
These three photographs were taken by a friend of mine today, the first two show that it was a glorious day and the third one shows tonight after the Haar/sea fog rolled in.
We get these quite a bit on the N.E. coast although we call them a 'fret'. They're a complete pain in the bum - sometimes you can go just a few hundred metres further inland and you're back in blazing sunshine again...
Now that's a strange thing in itself! The natives do speak English (to English people, anyway!) but I've a picture of a road sign I took on one of my two visits there, which says, 'Dinna Chuck Bruck'. Now I knew what 'bruck' was from Jeff's posts here so the meaning was clear enough to me. Folk from further south might struggle though... As an aside, in northern Norway road signs stating 'Farts dampere' caused quite a bit of amusement I can tell you. They're road-humps of course - the words meaning more-or-less 'speed calming'...
