Brei Wick

A very different day today.  After breakfast we walked down to the Bressay Ferry dock and boarded for the short journey across the Sound to the island to take part in the Parkrun.  Everyone was very welcome and supportive as we ran south, parallel to the Sound then turned after 3k and ran back to the Speldiburn Community Cafe and the finish.  We both enjoyed our runs, and the butties and cuppas and cake in the Cafe afterwards.  We chatted with one of the local parkrunners until it was time to go for the return ferry.

In the afternoon a Gala was being held at the Leisure Centre for Cancer Relief so we took a circuitous walk around the Knab to get there and enjoyed listening to the young band play folk whilst we had a cuppa and cake.  Starting at 8pm tonight the actual relay lasts for 12 hours with local teams taking part walking around the athletics track.  It's very exposed up there so it will be something of a trial to keep going all night I imagine.

It is our last night here in Lerwick, tomorrow we head north to our second base.  Once again we ate at no.88.  The food has been delicious, beautifully cooked with light but flavourful sauces, so we have eaten there each evening.  Tonight there was a new dessert of a biscuity choux filled with chocolate mousse and cream with a subtle toffee sauce.  I was the first to order it and John the Chef came out to ask what I thought.  It was delicious and not at all stodgy or two sweet.  I offered to become their food taster but sadly the manageress said that was her task!  I doubt we will do so well for dining at our next venue!  It might have to be Frankie's fish and chips.  Frankie's has the honour of being the most northerly UK fish and chip shop.  There are quite a few 'most northerly' here, with today's parkrun being the most northerly too.

My blip was taken on the path which hugs the shoreline around the Knab to Brei Wick.  We were surprised to see these poppies on the top of the cliff and decided they must have escaped from a garden.  Further down this path we spotted a seal just off the shore sitting on a rock.  

If you would like to see more blips of gannets, landscapes et al, my Flickr album is here!