They are embraced by water, sung to sleep by waves and vortexes, constantly gnawed on - the nature of islands. Just like the wind, the power of water is omnipresent in the Faroe Islands (as here in Gjógv, my thermos included). And interesting for many reasons. For example, when it comes to the topic of sustainable energy production …
Read More
The Home Of Giants
A small church by majestic waters, a fjord called Kalsoyarfjørður. There I stood on Kunoy and let my gaze wander, on a clear day in October. The island on the other side is Kalsoy. Both islands are basically huge mountain ridges, when it comes to geography, spread out between north and south …
Read More
Space History: From Tindhólmur To Mars
Five striking peaks. Two summer houses. No inhabitants. Tindhólmur, a private islet west of Vágar. A remote Faroese place that’s making history at present – totally under the radar. Surely you know that NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars a few days ago. A task that is directly connected to Tindhólmur …
Read More
Tunnel. Portal And Exit And The Part In Between
Snapshot in time. Faroe Islands, in the extreme North, Viðoy, close to Viðareiði, before you enter the village. A car that held the road well that day, purring engine, humming from the driver’s seat probably, with the radio on, some afternoon program, a cutting out, radio news, and, simultaneously, a different countdown that was just about to start …
Read More
Our Gorge: Welcome To A Secret Jewelry
Geological eras and water, creating secret coves, caves and mystic hollows all around the Faroe Islands, in the course of intangible periods of time. Also at our place. Welcome to nature’s jewelry. Wonderland. Our village has its own gorge. Parts of it are only accessible by water …
Read More
The Cloud Volcano Of Kalsoy
Activity on the rise, at least that’s what it recently looked like, on the other side of our sound. The volcano of Kalsoy. Nature’s trick of clouds and light. Obviously, there are no volcanoes in the Faroe Islands, not anymore, whereas things used to be profoundly different in times immemorial …
Read More
Going Shopping, Wrapped In Mystery
Our fjord Funningsfjørður on a brown and petrol blue day. The scenery on the other side being in the limelight, light that obviously has been dimmed down; the road not more than a curved line just above the windswept surface of the water. Perfect place. First: going shopping. Later: having some cookies at the shore …
Read More