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“Vast rivers, the kind that flow through continents and look like seas at their widest points, hold a particular fascination for me, as do trains. The reason is simple: we don't have these things in Shetland, and I hope the childlike awe I feel on a riverbank, or watching an intercity train swoosh across a high bridge, will never fade. Best, of course, when the two are combined. About a hundred miles southwest of Kharkiv the train had slowed, and I watched from the window, totally transfixed, as we clunked across a bridge that seemed to stretch on and on over the dark river. Lights glimmered, reassuring, in the distance. There are many bridges which knit the city of Dnipro together, taking trains and traffic across both the Dnipro and Samara rivers. The city sprawls at their confluence.”

Ukraine Trains Shetland Dnipro Dnipro River

Book:Night Train to Odesa: Covering the Human Cost of Russia's War

Source: Night Train to Odesa: Covering the Human Cost of Russia's War

“What astonishes us about Earl Patrick's castle works is the extraordinary beauty and refinement of their architecture. At all of them it is obvious that he employed the same architect. And it is equally obvious that this architect was an artist of the first rank, with a scholarly ans sensitive acquaintance and understanding contemporary design, particularly in France. Yet this group of buildings, so beautiful and so refined, were erected to serve the tyrannical purposes of the worst scoundrel of his time in Scotland.”

Orkney Shetland Earl Patrick Stewart

Book:The Bishop's and Earl's Palace, Kirkwall, Orkney

Source: The Bishop's and Earl's Palace, Kirkwall, Orkney

“Some men fall in love with a woman, Some women fall in love with a man, Some men fall in love with another man, Some women fall in love with another woman - But I, my dear one, fell in love with Shetland. - Shetland”

Love Scotland Place Shetland

Book:Red, Cherry Red

Source: Red, Cherry Red

“But you have to remember, Shetland time is slower. There's a saying, that Shetland watches don't show minutes or hours-only years!”

Time Shetland Shetland Islands

Book:The AdderStane

Source: The AdderStane

“The winters were so bleak and black that in the summer folk were overtaken with a kind of frenzy, constant activity. There was the feeling that you had to make the most of it, be outside, enjoy it before the dark days came again. Here in Shetland they called it the 'simmer dim'.”

Shetland Simmer Dim

Book:White Nights

Source: White Nights

“In this light, at this time of the year, on impulse visitors bought up the old houses for second homes.”

Shetland Home Buyer Shetland Islands

Book:White Nights

Source: White Nights