A quick trip to Shetland

For some reason, I always tune into SIBC when my hire car hits the road from Sumburgh airport.

Descending out of the clouds to arrive in Shetland is always a slightly odd experience – the airport is at the very southern tip of the spindly peninsula that is South Mainland, the runway barely fitting in and even overlapping the main road. It meansthere are no glimpses of land, no low sweeps across surrounding areas as you come in; instead just a rapid, turbulentswitchfrom cloud to sea to runway.

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