HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY & CULTURAL HOLIDAYS

 

Fair Isle Island Insights

Please note that we will not be running holidays to Fair Isle in 2009 as Fair Isle Bird Observatory is closed for complete refurbishment / rebuild. We plan to run our series of holidays to this magical island again in 2010. If you would like us to contact you when our 2010 dates and itineraries are set, please e mail us. For a sample of award-winning holidays we have run to Fair Isle for nearly ten consecutive years please click here.

Up Helly Aa' Fire Festival & Shetland's Winter Wildlife

Britain's biggest fire festival and torchlight procession takes place in Lerwick on the last Tuesday of January. Over 800 colourfully dressed 'guizers' parade with flaming torches behind the 'Jarl Squad' of Vikings and their longship through the darkened streets of the town to the burning site. Here the official ceremony ends in a spectacular blaze as the torches are thrown into the galley! Why not combine this dazzling event with some outstanding winter birding and wildlife viewing? Read more or click here to view this holiday in our 2009 brochure