JayBee
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Now look here, TideWater! This is the kind of grossly flippant attitude with which we should not be expected to put up. Especially in this, the 60th year of her Maj's reign.
What courtesy flag in Shetland?
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Now look here, TideWater! This is the kind of grossly flippant attitude with which we should not be expected to put up. Especially in this, the 60th year of her Maj's reign.
Tidewaiter2
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Well...
as they used to say to me....
'if you can't take a joke, why did you put the stripe up'
and I only joined the Cubs for the Uniform
ER II's 60th year in post;
Now, I remember sitting on my Dads shoulders(outside the tube station and opposite the Mile End Odeon) to watch the Queen's Coronation procession pass along the Mile End Road.
Oh and that's TideWaiter, Sirrah, if you don't mind- we fly a defaced Red, dontcha know
(thinks,
Bluebottle, time to induce a little Fred Drift,he's dying to get out of the pram.)
Now look here, TideWater! This is the kind of grossly flippant attitude with which we should not be expected to put up. Especially in this, the 60th year of her Maj's reign.
as they used to say to me....
'if you can't take a joke, why did you put the stripe up'
and I only joined the Cubs for the Uniform
ER II's 60th year in post;
Now, I remember sitting on my Dads shoulders(outside the tube station and opposite the Mile End Odeon) to watch the Queen's Coronation procession pass along the Mile End Road.
Oh and that's TideWaiter, Sirrah, if you don't mind- we fly a defaced Red, dontcha know
(thinks,
Bluebottle, time to induce a little Fred Drift,he's dying to get out of the pram.)
Abestea
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I believe that it is based on the Dannebrog and other Scandinavian flags. This symbolises its Scandinavian heritage. The cross is NOT like the St Georges Cross. The blue and white symbolises of it being part of Scotland.
Fly it with pride when you are there! I got one when i was there and also fly it from the back of my bike and attach it to my rucksack whenever i am travelling.
heimdal
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When you arrive in Shetland it will probably be in Lerwick (Old Norse, Leirvik=Muddy Bay) but you won't need to anchor off as the Vikings did.
We have lots of berthing pontoons for visitors.
http://www.lerwick-harbour.co.uk/yachts
Back to the flag, it's the same blue as the Swedish flag with the white Dannebrog cross as the Danish flag.
Mvh
We have lots of berthing pontoons for visitors.http://www.lerwick-harbour.co.uk/yachts
Back to the flag, it's the same blue as the Swedish flag with the white Dannebrog cross as the Danish flag.
Mvh
Leif-J
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Wow Heimdal, you are actually in Shetland! Thanks for the link. I shall investigate it further.
Hope we will make it to your home waters this summer.
What boat are you sailing?
Hope we will make it to your home waters this summer.
What boat are you sailing?
JayBee
Well-Known Member
When you arrive in Shetland it will probably be in Lerwick (Old Norse, Leirvik=Muddy Bay) but you won't need to anchor off as the Vikings did.
Mvh
I wonder. Did they anchor off?? I think they probably ran their boats up on the beach, because their anchors were not so good and they didn't have little tenders to take them ashore.
However, I digress....
In Torshavn, we had just hoisted our Faroese courtesy ensign at 0800, when a passer by stopped for a chat. After an exchange of pleasantries about the weather and such, she informed us that the Faroese were the most seasick people in Europe!
How so??
Apparently when the Vikings were on their way to Iceland, all the seasick ones got off in the Faroes and their "seasick genes" are present in the population to this very day.
Can this be true, I wonder and does it also apply to the Shetlanders?
Sorry for slight thread drift....