Apologies for the lack of additional posts

I have found while travelling that the days are full of many wondrous things and at the end of each day I am more than tired.  The next day involves more wondrous things and so on.
Now I will try to pick up where I left off to give a flavour of our journey.
June 19th:  We drove to the post office in Walls and mailed home the Shetland blanket that we purchased at Jamieson's in Sandnick.  Then we drove to Betsy's home (Troulligarth) and Rose Murchison was there, a friend of Betsy's, also the mother in law of Christine Leask (travel contact at Leask Travel for our ill fated travel of 2010).  We left and went for a tour through what is called "the Alps of Aith".  It bears repeating that the roads are narrow so when travelling on the precarious roads to Aith the imaginary brake pedal on the passenger side got a good workout.  We toured Aith and saw where Betsy's daughter, Helena, went to school.  Then we carried on to Voe where there is a very old stone building pub.  We were getting hungry and pub grub appealed to us.  Here we met Clive Mouat. and he advised that the grill had been shut down until the supper hours. During our conversation, he told us he was the former owner of the pub and gave us a bit of history of the building.  This reminded me of all the classic pub scenes in movies as there were three gents there all having "a pint".  As we were hungry we continued on to Brae and grabbed a lunch at Frankie's Fish and Chips.  Hmm, I wonder what was had for the (very late) lunch that became dinner??  The scenery was not only unique from anything I had ever seen but also beautiful.  We both noted the number of abandoned and decaying croft buildings.  As this was our last day at the chalet, we could not help but reflect on the sights seen, the large number of abandoned crofts, the cool temperatures and the very hard life even modern day farmers have on their crofts.
We were home by 8:00 PM and packed for out move to Lerwick

View of Arthur Leask's boats from da Chalet.

South view of the countryside and road to Burrastow House from da Chalet

June 20th we packed the car and were ready for our landlord's (Harriett Leith) arrival.  Harriett arrived and after a brief conversation about our activities for the second week in Shetland, drove to Betsy's who was to lead the way to Lerwick.  We Had a cuppa and left for Walls where we stopped for lunch at the local Methodist church that was serving lunch, which they do every Friday during the "high season"..  Very busy with local people and we were glad to see them doing so well.
We arrived at Leeskol and met our hosts and were told that Elizabeth Angus (secretary of the Shetland Family History Society - SFHS) had been around to see if we were there yet.  We unloaded and headed round the corner for the SFHS office and after the usual introductions we had a look at the records that were available both on computer and in reference material.  The office is well set up and organized!  The are in the middle of a large project to honour those who served in WW 1 that hailed from Shetland.  Elizabeth Angus invited us over for a visit after dinner that night.  We left the office of SFHS at about 4 and returned to the B&B, unpacked, and went out to a marvelous lamb dinner at the Queens hotel.  We left there and headed, on foot, to Elizabeth's home.  The Angus home has a beautiful view of the harbour!!  We had a fine time catching up on all the questions that have evolved over the 7 years of e-mailing.  We even took pictures of me (see below) in part of the viking costume belonging to her husband Gussie as the viking heritage is a big part of the island heritage.and island celebrations.  There is great care and copious amount of labour and money spent on these costumes.