Scalloway

From this……

To this…..

Via this…..

….  which is Scalloway, were Foxy Dog (Ted’s brilliant dog-groomers are).

Scalloway is a fishing port on the west side of the island that was the capital of Shetland until 1708, when it moved to Lerwick.

A lovely place with such huge character, including a monument to the Shetland Bus, the Norwegian resistance movement in WW2.

What I like most about Scalloway is that it’s very colourful …..

And full of character.

So Ted is now beautiful and I think we are all very happy for that. We tell ourselves he is less Greasy Muppet and more Handsome Prince, thankfully.

7 thoughts on “Scalloway

  1. Claire

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    1. Frances Post author

      A memorial in Scalloway commemorating the Shetland Bus operation during the Second World War
      The Shetland Bus (Norwegian Bokmål: Shetlandsbussene, def. pl.) was the nickname of a clandestine special operations group that made a permanent link between Mainland Shetland in Scotland and German-occupied Norway from 1941 until the surrender of Nazi Germany on 8 May 1945. From mid-1942, the group’s official name was the Norwegian Naval Independent Unit (NNIU). In October 1943, it became an official part of the Royal Norwegian Navy and was renamed the Royal Norwegian Naval Special Unit (RNNSU). The unit was operated initially by a large number of small fishing boats and later augmented by three fast and well-armed submarine chasers – Vigra, Hessa and Hitra.[1]

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