One of the most impressive communities I've met since walking round Scotland for the last 18 months
There’s a Yell of a lot going on.
There’s a running joke that Yell, an island off mainland Shetland, is just somewhere you drive through to get to Unst, the UK’s most northerly isle.
If you only stick to the road and miraculously fail to be drawn in by the breath-taking views down to coves and golden-sand beaches splashed with aqua-blue waves, or ignore signs to places with intriguing names like Gloup and Vatsetter, then maybe.
For me, it was travelling this northern isle where I found one of the most impressive communities I’ve come across since walking round Scotland for the last year and a half.
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Nestled among the vast expanse of peat bogs to the north of the island is a place called Cullivoe.
At first glance, the village might appear like a quiet island hamlet. There’s a single-track road leading through a settlement of a few houses, a primary school, a community shop, a village hall, a church and a harbour.
Just up on the hill behind it are five wind turbines, fairly modest in size compared to the towers coming out the production line today.
