A Magical Journey To Unst, Shetland

Finding A Place In My Recently Discovered Ancestral Homeland

Burrafirth, on the northern tip of Unst. My great-great-grandfather Matthew Anderson, a fisherman, reached the North Sea from this inlet. His son Andrew Anderson, my great-grandfather, was born there in 1850, the year before Mathew drowned

I finally reached Unst last week, after more than two years of planning and waiting out the pandemic, with the help …