Bikepacking the Orkney and Shetland Islands. Welcome to PARADISE!
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2023
- After cycling Land's End to John O'Groats and I continued further North to explore the incredible beaches, wildlife and ancient sites of the Orkney and Shetland Islands. Enjoy! 🦭
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Some stunning scenery, particularly with the drone! Thanks for sharing 😊
It's a beautiful place! Thanks for watching :)
Great photography - good work.
Thank you!
Phil, grateful as always. Thanks for always showing me the world is bigger than your garden. Stay safe 💪🏾
Thank you. Sure is! Get out there and enjoy that world :)
Nice trip! I think you did well with the weather, obviously. Cycling in the horizontal rain and hills can get discouraging further north, which is very remote and unemcumbered by "civilisation" for the most part. You have to plan your food situation, but of course, can't plan for the weather, which around there, changes every ten minutes anyways.
Thanks for watching. Yes, was extremely lucky with the weather! Isn't it always like that? 😝
@@WestGoesEast one way or another, yes!
Thank you for this beautiful tour of Orkneys and Shetland. They are both on my bucket list, and in the meantime I get the joy of watching this. Great filming, drone flying, editing and storytelling as usual. Many extremely beautiful places. And I appreciated the many references to Norway 🤩About the British weather - I myself have been to the UK quite a lot of times, and several times up to 2-3 weeks at a time, and during most months of the year, and I have very rarely had any rain. Just returned home from some 80 km of coastal walking in Cornwall, and had lovely and warm weather except from a handful of light drops one afternoon. I hope your trip home went smoothly☺ Thank you for sharing!
Thank you. Yes you should definitely go as I'm sure you would love them. Glad you liked the Norway references... There were some similarities for sure.
And also glad you know the UK can have nice weather! 😝
@@WestGoesEast I will surely go some time. I am also sure I will love them. And all I know about UK weather is that is is mostly lovely 😉 At least it rains more than the double amount yearly here in Bergen as in Cornwall, and that is a fact 🌧🌧 🙄🙂
Great video of a lovely set of island groups. I would love to travel there on a bike tour, perhaps next year. I would do it for a longer time, as part of en extended tour of Europe and the UK.
Thank you. Yes, I would have preferred a longer time too!
What beautiful places to visit on a bicycle. I guess you had te best weather you can wish for. The walk on Noss must have been really fantastic. Enjoyed it very much, thanks for sharing!👍👌
Thank you. I was so lucky with the weather as I don't think that happens very often. Noss was amazing I just with I had more time time on there to explore it.
This gets my seal of approval! 😂😂😂😂😂
Ah the classic seal pun!
Signed,sealed and delivered
Well done Phil. I look forward to your next cycling adventure! 👍🏻
Thanks Ian! Who knows where it'll be!
Really enjoyed watching this and your Lejog so lucky with weather
Thanks Peter. Yes, was very lucky indeed!
Holy moly what an epic trip!! Loved watching, some stunningly beautiful spots out there!
Thank you. And yes, some of the spots were epic!
Another great video Phil, makes me want to get back up there on my bike 🚴♂️ before my family move back to the mainland.
Cheers 👍
Thanks Tony. Go do it! :)
Fabulous trip and videos Phil.
A great challenge like LeJog, followed by a few days "cycling holiday" in the Scottish Isles ...and your timing with the weather was perfect!
BTW, there's no need for you to go all the way to Shetland if you want to see a puffin. Not far from Brighton, whenever I cycle up onto the South Downs, there's always a huffin' AND a puffin'. Maybe a few rude words too, if there's a headwind!
Haha, I've seen a few huffings and puffins myself whilst cycling the south downs!
Thanks for watching :)
Amazing scenery beautifully filmed. What an idyllic spot for your last night camping, absolutely perfect. You were just so lucky with the weather thanks for sharing 😊
Thank you and yes that beach was perfect! 😊
Having enjoyed your Orkney/Shetland adventure I’m just starting your LeJog journey. I’ve bought the same book for the journey (hopefully next summer) as I prefer to stay off main roads. Did you find it useful? Safe cycling 👍
@@reinmansmith It was good to make sure I was staying roughly on the right track and to make sure I was doing enough miles each day to what it said in the book. Enjoy your ride...I' sure you'll love it. A highlight for me was camping by Loch Moy
@@WestGoesEast excellent that’s good to know thank you… 🙏 (will watch the rest of your journey this evening 😊)
Another great film Phil, good stuff. Loved the footage of the seals and your final night camping spot. Hard to return home after such a memorable trip. You’ve inspired me to take my wife up to Orkney & Shetland, think she’s forgiven me for the JOGLE trip!
Thank you! Yeah that camp spot was pretty special. Yes, the Orkney and Shetland islands were amazing and defo worth going but perhaps the weather helped too.
ah, how cool. Just watched this off the back of your video on LEJoG. I and my ex worked in Shetland in summer 95, and visited that "Tombola" beach on one of our days off. We stayed on the campsite just outside Lerwick and had amazing weather the whole time we were there. Fantastic place, and very friendly locals. On the overnight ferry up from Aberdeen we had flat calm seas like a millpond, but I got seasick after drinking in the bar then going to the toilet in the early hours (I do NOT recommend the recliner chairs for sleeping btw- book a cabin) and finding someone else had puked on the floor, which set me off; my abiding memory of that leg of the journey was being sick over the side and watching dolphins porpoising off the bow of the ship, as the sunrise came up over the gas rigs in the distance- still beautiful despite my condition. Then on the return leg we hit a force 7 storm, with the ship pitching and rolling over 20 foot waves, but I had no problem with it, and was on deck watching the Coast Guard rescue helicopter conduct an exercise. Brilliant stuff!
I absolutely loved Shetland and met a lot of people from the neighbouring islands, and would love to get back there sometime. Life there is so much more laid back than the mainland.
Life should be an adventure and you´re certainly living it :) thanks again for this :)
Seems like we both got lucky with the weather in the Shetland Islands then. I thought that only happens like 1 day a year..haha!
You were lucky to see dolphins. I kept my eye for whales and dolphins but only saw a porpoise when I was crossing the causeway in Orkney. Saw plenty of seals though! :)
I wanted to check out Orkney and Shetland for cycling and found your video , obviously sponsored by the tourist board! What a great end to your trip , thanks for doing all the videos. I live in Scotland and always wonder how windy its going to be up there. But what a place to wild camp , I was in southern Italy in October where it was warm and flat, empty beaches and warm sea but so dirty with trash everywhere, so great to see how pristine it looks back home. Enjoy .
I wish I was sponsored by the tourist board! It was pretty windy one time but the rest was beautiful weather and I feel I was very lucky to experience that especially with the beaches to wild camp on.
Would like to cycle Italy as love it there! Thanks for watching.
WELL DON'T GO TO PUGLIA AS FLY TIPPING IS A NATIONAL SPORT RUBBISH EVERYWHERE . HORRIBLE !!!!! @@WestGoesEast
Wow your films are great....i only came across your channel yesterday...the west goes easy vid... very inspiring.... you deserve way more subs
Thank you! I appreciate that :)
Lovely trip mate on my to do list for a long time 👍🏻🚴
Thanks. It's defo a great experience!
Bloody good ride around the shetland & Orkney islands Phil 🚵♂️👍
Thanks, yes, I was lucky with the weather!
Seized the day indeed mate. Huge day in the Orkneys! Looks beautiful. Great video again thanks for sharing!
Ah there's the tina Turner ref #2 😄
That beach!!!! Thailand esque indeed!
Like Koh Phi Phi
Reincarnated
The good thing about Orkney is that you can do it in a day kinda
Hi. Great video, again. How much is the Ferry with bicycle? Do you have to book in advance? What is strapped to your frame? Cheers
Thanks. Which ferry do you mean? Jog to Orkney, Orkney to Shetland or Shetland to Aberdeen? I did have to book in advance for all 3.
The thing on my bike is lock!
Hi, you did such a good job capturing the gorgeous places you visited. Can you help me out though? Do you remember the details of the location where you were greeted by a cat when you walked into an abandoned property? Orkney cat rescue just want to check on the cat to make sure it's ok. Thanks hugely.
Thank you :)
I was there in May so the cat may have moved on but it was on the A966 at Costa (the place not the coffee shop)!
Lovely. WIll pass the details on to them. Just looked up google maps and seen the properties all around. It's probably somebody's pet. Many thanks for your help.
My god, Phil--what a fantastic trip! Such beautiful scenery and wildlife. And so many places of which I'd never heard. Really a great adventure you had on this journey. Great job on the filming, and terrific commentary. So glad the weather held out of you, too. It makes such a huge difference, doesn't it? That was a sincerely enjoyable 45 minutes you just led me through. Thanks!
P.S. Twatt, a tight community?
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Thanks for the great comment Tom. I must admit I didn't know much about the islands but they have a lot to offer and the weather certainly helped!
P.s A tight community....not sure what you me? 😉
@@WestGoesEast Hah! I thought you were making a joke about the “community” seeming to have just the one abandoned house.
@@TomJudson I mean to say, I don't know what you mean (not me) 😉
Brilliant Phil , did you take the weather home with you ? Chucking it down in Bettyhill at the moment. NO salmon either they’ve buggered off up the river 😂
Thanks mate. I think I did take the weather back with me as its still pretty warm and sunny.
Bummer about the Salmon... Perhaps you need to relocate! 🙂
Do you come here often 😂😂😂 couldn’t t stop laughing man .
So what’s the next adventure then ? How long do we need to wait for more uploads
@@muzza6047 haha I didn't even realised I had said that until when I was editing! My gf had something to say about that... Whoops!
Well my next adventure will be my secret birthday trip in August or potentially a cycle to Paris.
I would have maybe done a motorbike one today as was meant to have my test today but wasn't allowed to do it as my CBT had expired.... I thought it expired this month! What a tit!
@@WestGoesEast Oh dear 😅, we need more content ! August is no good bro 😎
The road you struggled on where you camped with the French cyclist is known as 'The Alps'!
what time of year did you go?
Was in June
Great video but you never(ever) say "the Shetlands"!.
That's like saying the Englands or Scotlands.
It's just Shetland.
We also don't regard ourselves as Scottish so there's no "Mainland Scotland" :) .
You may hear a few English voices here(Shetland is something of a revolving door) but the Norse roots and people are still here.
I'm a Shetlander and my first ancestor here is a man called Hendrich Hendrichsson.
My bad, at least I got it right in the thumbnail :)
@@WestGoesEast Yes, I noticed that but heard "Shetlands" too many time to "let it go" ahaha!.
You must come back and visit the north mainland and north isles(Unst & Yell).
Unst is an amazing island.