Off the beaten track, on the island Streymoy, western-based, close to Vestmanna, a place you usually go to because you are about to take a boat trip, heading for spectacular bird cliffs, but that’s not what I was doing that day. Instead, I drove a small, winding road – and passed the most beautiful chicken-house I’ve ever seen, quite accidentally. Sometimes, it’s the small things that matter the most. In our village, a close friend also has given free-range chickens a home, a viking breed of hens, resilient and freedom-loving, ancestors rooted in Iceland, chicken-house close to our bay and the grass-roofed boat houses. Village life and hens’s eggs with the view of the sea. Or, in case of the Vestmanna chickens, a mountainous panorama, painted curtains, summer flowers and a rural chicken-idyll.