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Up Helly Aa - Europe's biggest fire festival - is here once again, and this podcast is your ultimate guide to all the goings on! Containing all the information you'll need about Shetland's famous fire festival - from it's historical origins in Lerwick, and THE guide to every aspect of the modern festival, providing all the information you need about the celebrations!

We also have a brand new range of Up Helly Aa merchandise, allowing you to celebrate with us, wherever in the world you might be! The range can be viewed and purchased here.

For further reading on Up Helly Aa, you can find C.E. Mitchell's excellent book here.

This podcast has been made possible by our generous supporters on Patreon, and has been produced by:
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We're heading further into winter in Shetland, which means many folk around the isles are getting deeper into their preparations for Up Helly Aa.

This festival has evolved into a celebration of our islands' Viking heritage, and you can learn more about it here:
https://youtu.be/s0BhejPp2zg?si=vATcOjhsuugpIHSJ

With that in mind, I thought telling this Viking story from Unst - the Tale of Goturm the Dane - would be fun.
This was originally recorded for our supporters on Patreon, which you can find out more about here:
https://youtu.be/3GgcRh74qSQ?si=4AyPb6cQgXKFtDzl

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Thanks to the Revellers for very kindly allowing me to use their songs 'Refugee Noblemen', 'Skeletons' and 'Lower the Rope' in this recording.

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The Trows are the most numerous, and I daresay most well-known of the creatures from Shetland folklore, and there is no end to the stories of their escapades, making them the perfect subject for this Spooky Shetland episode - just in time for Halloween 2024!

For the rest of our Spooky Shetland content, please follow the link here:
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Lerwick’s longship, the Dim Riv, needs your help!

Following the terrible summer of weather we have had, she is in urgent need of repairs to allow her to return to the water in 2025.
If you would like to donate to the costs of these significant works, please follow this link:
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Summer is here at last, and while Shetland might not be at the top of many people's list as a beach holiday destination, when it comes to beaches I think these islands are spoilt for choice! Here's a list of 10 Shetland beaches that you NEED to visit!

Thanks, as always, to The Revellers for kindly letting me use their music in these podcasts. The songs are "Refugee Nobleman" and "Skeletons".

Producing this podcast is only possible thanks to our supporters on Patreon. The Producers for this episode are:
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Further information on Shetland, Guided Tours, etc. can all be found on our website, here:
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Adventure Shetland is delighted to announce the launch of our first ever seasonal merchandise collection for Spring Summer 2024!

The whole range is themed around the iconic puffin - Shetland's "national" bird - and has been designed by Ealasaid Nicleoid, exclusively for Adventure Shetland.

This podcast features full details of all the products in the range, available HERE from Friday 1st March 2024!

Producing this podcast is only possible thanks to our supporters on Patreon. The Producers for this episode are:
Rory Goodlad, Melissa Mayo and Scott Goudie

If you'd like to join them as a producer for the next podcast and YouTube video, please head over to our Patreon and sign up here - any and all support is truly appreciated as it helps to keep the lights on and the podcast running!

Further information on Shetland, Guided Tours, etc. can all be found on our website, here:
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For YouTube videos of these podcasts and a whole lot more besides click here.

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We're back again with a second installment of Shetland archaeological sites that you really should visit - in our humble opinion at least!
Are there any sites you feel like I've missed? Let me know as there will almost certainly be a part 3 to this series in the future!

If you'd like to read, listen or watch the first instalment, you can do so at the following links:
Blog
Podcast
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Thanks, as always, to The Revellers for kindly letting me use their music in these podcasts. The songs are "Refugee Nobleman" and "Skeletons".

Producing this podcast is only possible thanks to our supporters on Patreon. The Producers for this episode are:
Rory Goodlad, Melissa Mayo and Scott Goudie

If you'd like to join them as a producer for the next podcast and YouTube video, please head over to our Patreon and sign up here - any and all support is truly appreciated as it helps to keep the lights on and the podcast running!

Further information on Shetland, Guided Tours, etc. can all be found on our website, here:
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For YouTube videos, of these podcasts and a whole lot more besides, click here.

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Spooky season is upon us once again, and there have been far too few podcast episodes since the last one of these - apologies for that!

For this year's Hallowe'en special, I'm telling an old story from Unst about a game of cards that got so out of hand the Devil himself appeared to dish out the consequences!

Thanks, as always, to The Revellers for kindly letting me use their music in these podcasts. The songs are "Refugee Nobleman" and "Skeletons".

If you'd like more Spooky Shetland content, the entire back catalogue can be found here on our YouTube playlist.

And for the rest of our YouTube videos, click here.

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