Update: This series was filmed in 2021. As of 2023, Jill and I are no longer together and she is not associated with this channel. Wishing her all the best for the future! If you want to see the original Schoolhouse Cinema as Chris created it, you can find it here: th-cam.com/video/WsXfjNai_Mw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=f_nsvBXIt6XJwTmT You can find more about "Crazy Chris" at his website crazychris.org
I was starting to write my comment about the fact of how humbled I am of seeing you both cycling in winter in the same place, Shetland up to Aberdeen, that I cycled in 2014. But that was in July, not in winter! It's definitely not comparable. And them I read about your break up and feel devastated, so sad 😢
Anna is my great grandmother, I used to live in Skerries full time until the school closed down, I really do hope more people come to Skerries to bring the place back to life, it really is a one of a kind place to live
Glad you made it there in the end. My house is the one behind the schoolhouse where you nearly lost your hat. I'd just finished building it when the salmon farm closed and we had to leave to find work. Now I only really see it during holidays and if the weather is good to travel for the weekend. My grandmother can tell stories for days and listening to them is what I enjoy most about getting home. She's really seen it all there through the years and always enjoys telling us about life back then. I almost had the same experience with my DJI Mini 2 when I sent it out west of the island to take pictures of the Renown fishing - got out there really quickly but it was a fight against the wind to get it ashore again!
It made the thousands of kms of pedalling worthwhile. Oh wow, sorry to hear that you had to leave. Do you have any plans to return? Staying on Skerries was a really unforgettable experience, and I loved meeting some of the Schoolhouse's neighbours! I can't say I've ever been anywhere quite like it before, so listening to people explain how life worked in such an isolated place was really fascinating. Haha glad to hear I wasn't the only one to make that mistake. Watching the battery level slowly drop as it inched it's way back across the water, I really thought I was going to lose it 😅
I feel bad you have to leave your nice house for work, the systems not good for anyone in Britain unless your from the London area,the rest of us are just pawns ,awe the best from Fife 🏴
@@Filthyanimalyeh it's much the same in Shetland - everything is designed to exist only in Lerwick and central areas while the outer isles are left to rot. I'll get back there someday, just have to find a way! Cheers!
@@ryanarthur8359 I wish you luck my Shetland neighbour,one of these days I'll be up to simmer dim on my motorbike to see ye all and hae a dram wi ye's 😁🥃
So glad you enjoyed it! Skerries was a really unforgettable place, and I was so happy to hear about some new arrivals on the island. Many more videos to come and full trailer for the next series will be on here soon, so keep an eye out 😁
I'm from Russia and it seems like you gave me a dream to visit all these places :D I have always had interest in Britain and your culture because im a football fan since 4 years old and I watched many british movies as a kid and your channel and this series is like a treasure chest! especially after watching Vikings TV series my interest in northen parts of UK and it's history heated up so thank you! You deserve way more views and subscribers
This was an excellent series Tieran, really well edited and narrated. Hope you and Jill are both doing OK, sad to hear you aren't together anymore. All the best for the future and hopefully some more great videos!
Thanks for the kind words Craig, and so glad you enjoyed the series; can't believe I've finally published it all! Many more videos to come, and a full trailer for the new series will be on here soon 😁
I went to Out Skerries in 1972 for two weeks,with Oxford Sea Cadets. It was an adventure getting there,and the greatest adventure staying there. We lived in the school building. We visited the coastguard houses. They had bullet holes in the windows and the walls were decorated with really old newspapers. I remember the fish factory, and there were divers building the new jetty for the boats. It's sad to see the decline,but your film has made me want to return. Thank you for a great video.
Fantastic end to a wonderful odyssey. You two were great traveling companions, but there's a time to everything. Looking forward to your next adventure!
Thanks for this wonderful tour and intimate look at the varying cultures (and languages) of the British and Irish islands. People often forget that they're not a contiguous whole. Thanks for showing that. And thank you for all your hard work. You must have feel like the floor was pulled out from under you when you finally got home after all that! I have real sympathy for your come down. I look forward to your next adventure!
Thanks for the kind words, I'm so glad you enjoyed following the series! They really do, and before this trip I didn't really appreciate that. I felt very lucky to be able to learn about all those cultures and languages so close to home for this project. And yes it was a crazy feeling coming back! You go from one extreme to another; living outdoors on the bike and meeting new people every day, to suddenly at home editing videos. But I was only home for 9 months before heading out on the next adventure, and a trailer for that will be out in the not-too-distant future 😁
A triumph in documentary making, with some lovingly crafted shots! One can sense it could be quite difficult at the end to leave that particular adventure behind. ... but a wonderful tease at the end about more adventures to come, although take care in that part of the world.
Thanks so much! It was bittersweet coming home, but it did mean having a chance to properly rest for the first time in a long while. I won't spoil anything other than saying the next adventure was an absolutely crazy experience... the trailer for that will be coming in the not-too-distant future 😁
Aside from the breathtaking scenery and wonderful commentary I was intrigued by the relationship aspect of the journey. Sorry it didn't work out. I will be bike packing Ireland for two weeks in May.
800 km starting in Dublin, across to Galway. Down the wild Atlantic way, ring of Kerry. Train from Cork back to Dublin. Wild camp where we can. Might reverse the route depending on wind when we arrive.
Tieran, I really enjoyed this video and will watch others you've made. So sorry to hear about you and Jill, wishing happiness to you both. My wife and I toured Orkney last summer, hope to get to Shetland in summer 2025. And Skerries looks like an incredible place, thank you for showing us the scenery and your visits with the people were really fabulous.
Really enjoyed the whole journey. Sad to hear you and Jill have parted. I'm amazed your relationship survived the actual journey. Still, hopefully you will be friends forever having endured 6 months of torture together ;-) I look forward to your next adventure.
Thanks for the kind words, and yeah haha a cycle tour with a partner is definitely a big test! Glad you enjoyed the series, the trailer for the next one is coming soon in the not-too-distant future 😁
A fantastic programme. Thank you. Having gone all that way to the most easterly point in Scotland, I'm surprised that you didn't go to Hermaness on Unst. From there, you can look across to Muckle Flugga, which is the most northerly point in the UK. It's spectacular. Incredible bird life on the cliffs below. I cycled there in the 90's, but did it in the summer. You were damn brave doing that in the winter! Well done.
What an excellent series. Although I've cycled all my life, I went my first weekend cycle tour last year with my 15 yr old son. He wants to go further again and for longer this year so I was on youtube looking for inspiration for trips when your videos popped up. I hope you continue to document your travels. Well produced and informative along the way. Thanks for sharing. There is a phrase used in the borders of my country Scotland that means have a trouble free outward journey and then a trouble free inward journey so for all your future journeys I wish you a safe oot, safe in.
Thanks so much for the kind words, glad you stumbled across this video! What a lovely experience that is for you and your son, where are you heading on the next one? And I'll remember that phrase for the future! 😁
I loved this! I’ve only ever made it to Orkney; loved it. Your travels are a great way for me to see the world now. I’m looking forward to Saudi Arabia next.
Thank you so much for the series! I've enjoyed every episode. I'm looking forward to my bicycle tour which will start in about 8 weeks.☺ Sorry to hear that Jill and you are no longer together.
@TieranFreedman I'm going to Scotland, with my husband. I think this will be my last bicycle vacation. I'm 61 and my husband 66 (in May he'll be 67) . Just one more time... We don'tknow for how long. A month, 2 months or... We'll see. It depends on our condition, the weather etc. I hope you're doing well. Take care. Bye.🍀
What an emerive and good video about this uniqe plase.. 👍 I have family ties to a small island (ca 100 ppl), of the coast of norway. (25 years sinse I lived there myself tho) Also much closer to sivilization , so not to be compeard actualy, other then the common challenges of islang living. I think outer skerries should have a Huge potential for renewible energi. Both wind, wave, and tidal power should be harvestible there in loads... Maybe thats the thing to go for to attract new industrie and re-vitalisation ? Think this is also a feild of exploration in shetland generaly if im not mistaken... 🤔 Supprised to finde i actualy anderstood som of the name signs in this or the previous video.. some of the norn signs 👍
Thanks so much, so happy you enjoyed it! Which part of Norway? I'm half-Norwegian so I visit Norway often 😁Wow, that's so cool about the language crossover. Though I'm not fluent in Norwegian, I noticed a few phrases as well. I believe there is now a lot of wind energy up in Shetland. I suppose in Skerries one of the tricky things will be trying to balance preserve a very rare kind of island community, whilst also creating jobs and bringing in investment. I think what Chris did in creating the cinema is really great for that actually, just to put skerries "on the map" even if it's closed down now.
I hope you’ll send me the beginning of the story soon because I really didn’t enjoy it but I would really like to see the beginning of the story. Thanks.
Hey Jacinda, not sure if "didn't" was a typo or not haha, but either way you can find the entire series from start to finish on my TH-cam channel under the paylist "Tieran Meets the World: Season 2"
Good guess! It doesn't, but "skirt" does come from Old Norse, and Norn (the unique language in Shetland that died out in the early 1900s and still influences the dialect today) was a form of old norse.
@@tomjenkinson8958 Oh cool! I'm considering getting a new one after having this for a few years. But it's been so sturdy that I reckon it's got one more tour in it. And no it was my first trip to Shetland!
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Update: This series was filmed in 2021. As of 2023, Jill and I are no longer together and she is not associated with this channel. Wishing her all the best for the future!
If you want to see the original Schoolhouse Cinema as Chris created it, you can find it here: th-cam.com/video/WsXfjNai_Mw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=f_nsvBXIt6XJwTmT
You can find more about "Crazy Chris" at his website crazychris.org
Sorry to hear that 😢
Oh no! Thats devastating!! 😢 I wish you th best with future planss
@@Anthologylife14 Thank you!
It's life but glad your ok and what a marvelous journey
I was starting to write my comment about the fact of how humbled I am of seeing you both cycling in winter in the same place, Shetland up to Aberdeen, that I cycled in 2014.
But that was in July, not in winter! It's definitely not comparable.
And them I read about your break up and feel devastated, so sad 😢
Anna is my great grandmother, I used to live in Skerries full time until the school closed down, I really do hope more people come to Skerries to bring the place back to life, it really is a one of a kind place to live
Glad you made it there in the end. My house is the one behind the schoolhouse where you nearly lost your hat. I'd just finished building it when the salmon farm closed and we had to leave to find work. Now I only really see it during holidays and if the weather is good to travel for the weekend. My grandmother can tell stories for days and listening to them is what I enjoy most about getting home. She's really seen it all there through the years and always enjoys telling us about life back then. I almost had the same experience with my DJI Mini 2 when I sent it out west of the island to take pictures of the Renown fishing - got out there really quickly but it was a fight against the wind to get it ashore again!
It made the thousands of kms of pedalling worthwhile. Oh wow, sorry to hear that you had to leave. Do you have any plans to return?
Staying on Skerries was a really unforgettable experience, and I loved meeting some of the Schoolhouse's neighbours! I can't say I've ever been anywhere quite like it before, so listening to people explain how life worked in such an isolated place was really fascinating.
Haha glad to hear I wasn't the only one to make that mistake. Watching the battery level slowly drop as it inched it's way back across the water, I really thought I was going to lose it 😅
No plans yet that'd work but we've never given up hope!
I feel bad you have to leave your nice house for work, the systems not good for anyone in Britain unless your from the London area,the rest of us are just pawns ,awe the best from Fife 🏴
@@Filthyanimalyeh it's much the same in Shetland - everything is designed to exist only in Lerwick and central areas while the outer isles are left to rot. I'll get back there someday, just have to find a way! Cheers!
@@ryanarthur8359 I wish you luck my Shetland neighbour,one of these days I'll be up to simmer dim on my motorbike to see ye all and hae a dram wi ye's 😁🥃
Thank you for making the series. Watched the End through misty eyes. Our beloved island is always home no matter how far we wander.
So glad you enjoyed it! Skerries was a really unforgettable place, and I was so happy to hear about some new arrivals on the island.
Many more videos to come and full trailer for the next series will be on here soon, so keep an eye out 😁
Great finale to a fantastic series!!
Thank you! ❤️
Brilliant video about Skerries.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
I'm from Russia and it seems like you gave me a dream to visit all these places :D I have always had interest in Britain and your culture because im a football fan since 4 years old and I watched many british movies as a kid and your channel and this series is like a treasure chest! especially after watching Vikings TV series my interest in northen parts of UK and it's history heated up so thank you!
You deserve way more views and subscribers
Thank you, so glad you enjoyed the videos and I hope you get a chance to visit some of these places! 😊
Really great series to watch all the way through. You are a wonderful storyteller and we can't wait to see your next adventure.
Thanks so much (and sorry for a very late response to this)! 😊
@@TieranFreedman Ah no worries🙂
This was an excellent series Tieran, really well edited and narrated. Hope you and Jill are both doing OK, sad to hear you aren't together anymore. All the best for the future and hopefully some more great videos!
Thanks for the kind words Craig, and so glad you enjoyed the series; can't believe I've finally published it all! Many more videos to come, and a full trailer for the new series will be on here soon 😁
A great ending to an amazing adventure! You must have had some incredible encounters. The new footage looks spectacular.
Thank you Georgios! So glad you liked it, full trailer for season 3 coming soon 😁
I went to Out Skerries in 1972 for two weeks,with Oxford Sea Cadets.
It was an adventure getting there,and the greatest adventure staying there. We lived in the school building.
We visited the coastguard houses. They had bullet holes in the windows and the walls were decorated with really old newspapers. I remember the fish factory, and there were divers building the new jetty for the boats.
It's sad to see the decline,but your film has made me want to return.
Thank you for a great video.
Frehja, Theo and I have just enjoyed this most interesting documentary. Congratulations on your latest film. Can’t wait for the next. Much love ❤💚
Thank you Eve, so glad you enjoyed it! All the best to you from London ☺
Fantastic end to a wonderful odyssey. You two were great traveling companions, but there's a time to everything. Looking forward to your next adventure!
Thanks for the kind words Bob and so glad you enjoyed the series! Full trailer for the next series coming soon 😁
Thanks for this wonderful tour and intimate look at the varying cultures (and languages) of the British and Irish islands. People often forget that they're not a contiguous whole. Thanks for showing that. And thank you for all your hard work. You must have feel like the floor was pulled out from under you when you finally got home after all that! I have real sympathy for your come down. I look forward to your next adventure!
Thanks for the kind words, I'm so glad you enjoyed following the series! They really do, and before this trip I didn't really appreciate that. I felt very lucky to be able to learn about all those cultures and languages so close to home for this project.
And yes it was a crazy feeling coming back! You go from one extreme to another; living outdoors on the bike and meeting new people every day, to suddenly at home editing videos. But I was only home for 9 months before heading out on the next adventure, and a trailer for that will be out in the not-too-distant future 😁
A triumph in documentary making, with some lovingly crafted shots! One can sense it could be quite difficult at the end to leave that particular adventure behind. ... but a wonderful tease at the end about more adventures to come, although take care in that part of the world.
Thanks so much! It was bittersweet coming home, but it did mean having a chance to properly rest for the first time in a long while. I won't spoil anything other than saying the next adventure was an absolutely crazy experience... the trailer for that will be coming in the not-too-distant future 😁
@@TieranFreedman More power to your elbow! That will certainly be eagerly received!
Loved the series. Looking forward to your next adventure!
Thanks you, so glad to hear that! Full trailer for the next series coming soon 😁
Fabulous end to the season! Can't wait for the next one.
Thank you! 😁
Aside from the breathtaking scenery and wonderful commentary I was intrigued by the relationship aspect of the journey. Sorry it didn't work out. I will be bike packing Ireland for two weeks in May.
Thank you, and glad you enjoyed the videos! Good luck on your tour, which parts of Ireland will you be cycling through?
800 km starting in Dublin, across to Galway. Down the wild Atlantic way, ring of Kerry. Train from Cork back to Dublin. Wild camp where we can. Might reverse the route depending on wind when we arrive.
Tieran, I really enjoyed this video and will watch others you've made. So sorry to hear about you and Jill, wishing happiness to you both. My wife and I toured Orkney last summer, hope to get to Shetland in summer 2025. And Skerries looks like an incredible place, thank you for showing us the scenery and your visits with the people were really fabulous.
Really enjoyed the whole journey. Sad to hear you and Jill have parted. I'm amazed your relationship survived the actual journey. Still, hopefully you will be friends forever having endured 6 months of torture together ;-) I look forward to your next adventure.
Thanks for the kind words, and yeah haha a cycle tour with a partner is definitely a big test!
Glad you enjoyed the series, the trailer for the next one is coming soon in the not-too-distant future 😁
A fantastic programme. Thank you.
Having gone all that way to the most easterly point in Scotland, I'm surprised that you didn't go to Hermaness on Unst. From there, you can look across to Muckle Flugga, which is the most northerly point in the UK. It's spectacular. Incredible bird life on the cliffs below.
I cycled there in the 90's, but did it in the summer. You were damn brave doing that in the winter!
Well done.
That was a great series. Entertaining and informative. Thanks!
Thank you, so glad you enjoyed it! The next series is coming soon (there's a sneak peak at the end of this video) 😁
Such beautiful shots of the windswept islands! Great video
Thanks so much! It was an absolutely stunning place. Glad you enjoyed the video 😁
What an excellent series. Although I've cycled all my life, I went my first weekend cycle tour last year with my 15 yr old son. He wants to go further again and for longer this year so I was on youtube looking for inspiration for trips when your videos popped up. I hope you continue to document your travels. Well produced and informative along the way. Thanks for sharing. There is a phrase used in the borders of my country Scotland that means have a trouble free outward journey and then a trouble free inward journey so for all your future journeys I wish you a safe oot, safe in.
Thanks so much for the kind words, glad you stumbled across this video! What a lovely experience that is for you and your son, where are you heading on the next one? And I'll remember that phrase for the future! 😁
I missed this when you published it - but glad to see it now...
The TH-cam algorithm must've been on poor form. Glad you enjoyed it!
@@TieranFreedman I did. Now 👀 at all your other films. 🤘
Great doco. Fantastic phoptography.
Thank you!
I loved this! I’ve only ever made it to Orkney; loved it. Your travels are a great way for me to see the world now. I’m looking forward to Saudi Arabia next.
Thanks again Barbara, happy to hear you liked this one as well! Full trailer for the next series coming very soon 😁🚲
Thank you so much for the series! I've enjoyed every episode. I'm looking forward to my bicycle tour which will start in about 8 weeks.☺
Sorry to hear that Jill and you are no longer together.
Thank you, so glad you enjoyed the series, and good luck on your tour! Where are you headed?
@TieranFreedman I'm going to Scotland, with my husband. I think this will be my last bicycle vacation. I'm 61 and my husband 66 (in May he'll be 67) . Just one more time... We don'tknow for how long. A month, 2 months or... We'll see. It depends on our condition, the weather etc. I hope you're doing well. Take care. Bye.🍀
Fabulous video! You might like Egilsay in Orkney which is a similar size! What microphone do you use in Shetland? It's always windy lol.
27:28 she's a legend
Excellent vlog brother... sorry to hear about ur relationship.. just subscribed and will support ❤
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it 😊
@@TieranFreedman bless
cant wait to see what you get up to next
😁 full trailer for the next series coming soon!
@@TieranFreedman from the small clips it looks amazing. i hope it brings you the attention you absolutely deserve
@@fleetingselfconfidence612 Thank you!
Loved this series, epic trip
Thank you, so glad you enjoyed it! I've just started publishing the new series on my channel as well 😁🚲
@@TieranFreedman Already watched the first part 👌
Looks like a reasonably calm crossing of Cook Strait, New Zealand.
What an emerive and good video about this uniqe plase.. 👍
I have family ties to a small island (ca 100 ppl), of the coast of norway. (25 years sinse I lived there myself tho)
Also much closer to sivilization , so not to be compeard actualy, other then the common challenges of islang living.
I think outer skerries should have a Huge potential for renewible energi.
Both wind, wave, and tidal power should be harvestible there in loads... Maybe thats the thing to go for to attract new industrie and re-vitalisation ? Think this is also a feild of exploration in shetland generaly if im not mistaken... 🤔
Supprised to finde i actualy anderstood som of the name signs in this or the previous video.. some of the norn signs 👍
Thanks so much, so happy you enjoyed it! Which part of Norway? I'm half-Norwegian so I visit Norway often 😁Wow, that's so cool about the language crossover. Though I'm not fluent in Norwegian, I noticed a few phrases as well. I believe there is now a lot of wind energy up in Shetland. I suppose in Skerries one of the tricky things will be trying to balance preserve a very rare kind of island community, whilst also creating jobs and bringing in investment. I think what Chris did in creating the cinema is really great for that actually, just to put skerries "on the map" even if it's closed down now.
I hope you’ll send me the beginning of the story soon because I really didn’t enjoy it but I would really like to see the beginning of the story. Thanks.
Hey Jacinda, not sure if "didn't" was a typo or not haha, but either way you can find the entire series from start to finish on my TH-cam channel under the paylist "Tieran Meets the World: Season 2"
The Skerries folk sound like Scandinavians speaking English 😀
As a half-Norwegian I thought so too! There's so much Scandinavian influence on those islands
the school house cinema is now closed now because of chris trying to live on the isle on grunny
Saw you in gott in one scene
Well spotted!
😃😃
Does the term outskirts come from here?
Good guess! It doesn't, but "skirt" does come from Old Norse, and Norn (the unique language in Shetland that died out in the early 1900s and still influences the dialect today) was a form of old norse.
What make is your Bike
It's a Ridgeback Voyage, it's handled taking me through mountains, desert, snow, and scorching heat pretty well!
@@TieranFreedman l have a Ridgeback Panorama
@@TieranFreedman was you hat your 2nd trip to Shetland?
@@tomjenkinson8958 Oh cool! I'm considering getting a new one after having this for a few years. But it's been so sturdy that I reckon it's got one more tour in it. And no it was my first trip to Shetland!
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First, once again
Haha well done Thomas! Hope life is good in Norway, I'm here now actually 😁
@@TieranFreedman mate it’s been boring, I’m in year 11 and basically just waiting to be finished With school so i can Get a job and all that. I dont Even know what id like to be when I’m older, but I’ll figure something out. How’ve you been doing?