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slightly different question about Faroe - Shetland route
Posted: Fri February 13, 2009 02:25 PM UTC

Hallo, folks! (and forgive me for some kind of duplicating previous question)

As fas as I know, currently Faroe islands do not have any air or sea links with Shetland. I wrote to Shetland tourism authorities about this, the reply was negative, indeed they do not have these links.

However, maybe there are, i.e., private yachts (or boats) who +/- regularly cross the sea with passengers in that particular route? Or any small local planes? Any ideas appreciated.

I'm planning my trip to Faroes and would gladly include Shetland, too, if it would be possible to avoid time and money consuming transit from Faroe to Shetland via UK (or anybody else's) mainland.

Nils

NilsTheFreelancer

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Re: slightly different question about Faroe - Shetland route
Posted: Fri February 13, 2009 03:25 PM UTC

There seems to be the possibility to use Freight ferries that travel between Torshaven (Faroer) and Lerwick (Shetland). I haven't looked up the details but here is the website.

http://www.aferryfreight.co.uk/scotlandfreight.htm

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Ina08

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Re: slightly different question about Faroe - Shetland route
Posted: Fri February 13, 2009 03:27 PM UTC

Here the link with the route and the ferry company

http://www.aferryfreight.co.uk/smyrillinefreight.htm

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Ina08

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Re: slightly different question about Faroe - Shetland route
Posted: Fri February 13, 2009 03:37 PM UTC

smyril line connects a lot of the island in the north atlantic and i know that they used to have passenger transport to from thorshavn to lerwick, but i don't know if it's still running that route.

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cachaseiro

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Re: slightly different question about Faroe - Shetland route
Posted: Fri February 13, 2009 10:12 PM UTC

I believe the Smyril line route was closed recently.

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jamesfmunro

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Re: slightly different question about Faroe - Shetland route
Posted: Fri February 13, 2009 10:45 PM UTC

the route is still running thats for sure, but i think the toomk out some destinations and added some others.

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cachaseiro

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Re: slightly different question about Faroe - Shetland route
Posted: Fri February 13, 2009 11:56 PM UTC

Smyril line is still running, but its Shetland - Faroe route is not.

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jamesfmunro

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Re: slightly different question about Faroe - Shetland route
Posted: Fri February 13, 2009 11:58 PM UTC

are you sure james.
from what i know the home base of smyril is thorshavn, but i might be wrong here.
it's purely from working in a travel agency i know them and not from sailing them.

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cachaseiro

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Re: slightly different question about Faroe - Shetland route
Posted: Sat February 14, 2009 12:17 AM UTC

The smyril website doesn't include Shetland for the 2009 schedule. If I recall correctly, the Shetland council is taking legal action against Smyril. Shetland invested millions in Smyril to ensure the future of the service and Smyril withdrew after it got the cash.

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jamesfmunro

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Re: slightly different question about Faroe - Shetland route
Posted: Sun February 15, 2009 09:22 AM UTC

Shame about (or should that be on) Smyril Line - we were booked to go on it Lerwick-Torshavn in 2005, but due to weather conditions the boat missed out Shetland.

So we had to go via Aberdeen (overnight ferry south then flight to Faroes) which was a shame as we´d hoped to get to Faroe without flying. Looking at Atlantic Airways website even that doesn´t seem to be an option, though.

Be interested to know if you do find a way of doing it, as getting to Faroe without flying still interests us.

Dave

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