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Bressay Explorer Crofting & Island Life Tour

By Robertson's Tours & Holidays
Free cancellation available
Price is £95 per adult

Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 4h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation

Overview

  • Visit to Garth's Croft, a working family croft
  • Guided tour of Bressay with qualified historian and archaeologist Chris Dyer
  • The chance to get off the beaten track, away from other visitors

Activity location

    • Lerwick
    • Lerwick, Scotland, United Kingdom

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • Esplanade, Lerwick, Shetland ZE1 0LL, UK | Layby bus stop opposite The Thule Bar on Esplanade, Lerwick
    • Lerwick, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Bressay Explorer Crofting & Island Life Tour

  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h
    4h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 09:30
Price details
£95.00 x 1 Adult£95.00
Total
Price is £95.00
Until Tue, 2 Jun

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Comfortable air-conditioned coach travel
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Return ferry crossing to Bressay
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Visit to Garth's Croft with tea/coffee on arrival
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Guided tour of Bressay with a qualified historian and archaeologist
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Lunch/ refreshments
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Service charge

Know before you book

  • Not allowed: Alcoholic drinks in the vehicle, Bachelor & hen party groups, Pets (assistance dogs allowed), Unaccompanied minors
  • Not suitable for: Babies under 1 year, People with mobility impairments, Wheelchair users
  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
  • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

What you can expect

Join us as we cross Lerwick Harbour to the small island of Bressay (population c.350) where we're guided by an island resident who shows us the best of his island home. Experience life on a Shetland croft, meet the famous sheep and delve into Bressay's 6000 year history through the eyes of a qualified archaeologist.

Arriving in Bressay, we meet our local guide who is an island resident, crofter and archaeologist. Tours departing on Saturdays will have the chance to explore the Bressay Heritage Centre which tells the storey of the island's 6000 year history. On all days, we will see the reconstruction of a Bronze Age Burnt Mound, which was saved from crumbling into the sea.

We'll meet our guide, Chris, who will accompany us to his island croft, a sustainable agricultural holding. We will be able to look at the sheep - ewes, rams and lambs - white, coloured, fleckit and even katmogget! Sift through fleeces from Chris' flock and see the principal day-to-day tools and equipment which are used by a Shetland crofter. Chris' croft is mixed, with woodland, pigs, turkeys, hens and vegetables alongside his beautifully coloured sheep, so there is plenty to see on an island with abundant nature, wildlife and history.

Leaving Garth's Croft, we'll make a short stop for refreshments (not included) before Chris takes us on a tour across his island home. We'll visit Bressay Lighthouse, the church and the remote east side of the island where we take a short guided walk.

Location

Activity location

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    • Lerwick
    • Lerwick, Scotland, United Kingdom

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • Esplanade, Lerwick, Shetland ZE1 0LL, UK | Layby bus stop opposite The Thule Bar on Esplanade, Lerwick
    • Lerwick, Scotland, United Kingdom