World travellers in Shetland

On Thursday the `World' visited Lerwick, this is the largest privately owned Cruise liner. This is owned by Millionaires with 165 rooms available, you can pay anything from around $1m - $15 for a three bedroom apartment, with 3 bathrooms. Only people with a net worth of $10m will be considered to be a part owner of the ship.

At the end of the year each person has to pay a share of the costs as well, anything from the fuel, meals, port charges, staff wages and maintenance of the ship.

The Shetland Fiddlers and Folk dance had been asked back to play for the residents, they had to go through  security checks before allowed on.

The route seems to be hush- hush and not revealed to the public until they have docked. On board facilities include 2 swimming pools, 6 restaurants, a golf simulator and tennis courts.

They do however get a say in where the liner will go each year. Already this year they have visited Brazil, Miami, various European destinations before seeing the first light of 2019 down in Africa

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Back on land and down at Scalloway the blue door always draws me. Its a very photogenic place, nicely framed by the trees. Scalloway is an area of old trees which are quiet rare in Shetland although many 100's have been planted and are doing well
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I have been planting a few rosebushes but one has been ripped out of the ground three times already, and the strong Shetland winds are due to hit again in the next few days. Next door around 50 young willow trees planted a few months ago have all died, partly due to the wind but also the large amount of salt that's carried in the air.