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Fair Isle: Walking Into a Painting at the Edge of the World

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Fair Isle / Shetland / Pandemic Travel / Ed and Sarah Far Out Yet Still Close Britain's most remote inhabited island. We flew in this morning. It feels like walking into a painting. Opening Signal Walking Into a Painting Britain's most remote inhabited island. We flew in this morning. It feels like we are walking into a painting. Think Norway meets Hawaiian islands and Father Time and Mother Nature have a field day. No man is an island, as John Donne wrote, but north of the border, you can live on one. Scotland's Shetland is good like that, with 15 inhabited islands to choose from. We are here on Fair Isle, Britain's most remote one. It feels like we are moving through paintings as the ever-changing weather lights the landscape in unique and splendid ways. Video Signal Being There Image Archive Fair Isle, First Frame ...

St Ninian’s: Where Paradise Gives You Hypothermia

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Shetland / St Ninian's / Cold Water / Wild Swimming St Ninian's: Caribbean Blue, North Atlantic Cold Despite its icy temperatures, this Shetland beach belongs in the same conversation as the Caribbean, Australia, and the Mediterranean. See Full Image Show Text Beach Signal The Cold Edge of Beauty Despite its icy temperatures, a Shetland beach - St Ninian's - has been named among the best places in the world to swim, alongside those in the Caribbean, Australia, and the Mediterranean. The water looks like paradise. The temperature reminds you exactly where you are. Video Signal St Ninian's in Motion Image Archive Shetland Beach, World-Class Water St Ninian's Beach A Shetland beach with Caribbean-blue water and North Atlantic temperatures. ...

Shetland Does Not Do Warm

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Shetland Mainland / Lerwick / Island Chain / Ed Reif No Man Is an Island, But You Can Live on One North of the border, the Shetlands make island life feel close enough to touch and far enough to change you. The Mainland Before the Edge Lerwick, Shetland: the staging ground before Fair Isle and the deeper island story. Opening Signal North of the Border No man is an island, as John Donne wrote, but north of the border, you can live on one. Scotland's Shetland is good like that, with 15 inhabited islands to choose from. We are here on the Mainland, staying in Lerwick. Island life does not begin at the edge. It begins the moment the mainland stops feeling central. Video Signals Shetland in Motion Shetland Mainland First visual signal from Lerwick and the ...

Disney Magic and the Year the World Stopped Sailing

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White Cliffs / Disney Magic / Pandemic Pause / Dover Do Not Give Up the Ship The Disney Magic waits beneath the chalk cliffs while the world holds its breath. See Full Image Show Text Cliff Signal White Cliffs, Stopped Ships Looking at these chalky cliffs, part of the English coastline facing the Strait of Dover and France. The Disney Magic is docked in the background. Do not get too close, Sarah. The ship was still there. The world around it had stopped moving. Image Archive The Cliffs and the Cruise That Could Not Sail White Cliffs, Disney Magic Chalky cliffs facing the Strait of Dover and France, with the Disney Magic docked in the background. Do Not Get Too Close, Sarah The English coastline is beautiful, but those cliffs still ...

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