Today we are hosting, together with our friends Poul Johannes and Frida, who have enough space in their lovely home in Elduvík to easily give a lunch for 30 farmers and wool producers from Iceland. All kinds of Faroese delicacies, advanced coziness and a dedicated exchange of experiences are served in Frida's home kitchen …
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There Couldn’t Be A Better Place
A new day. The last one had never really ended, to be honest. Instead, the light stayed up all night, performing a broad, milky red stripe on the horizon. Stretched out in bed, I listened to the sound of seabirds, before I went to sleep. Fresh coffee in the morning, free-ranging hens in a neighbor’s garden …
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One Panorama Window, Two Kinds Of Weather
Framed, like a museum work, and yet reality. One panorama window - our living room view in the islands - staging two kinds of weather. A peculiarly Faroese characteristic, when it comes to meteorological events. Like: Hardly ever cast in stone-conditions, but rather changes in the weather day by day, every hour; sometimes, within minutes …
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Drift. Of Snow, Rain, Tempest And Time
Fine weather conditions in recent days? Not exactly. Storm, rain, rain with snow and blowing snow instead. That’s how it was. For one and a half or two days, I couldn’t leave the house. Driving to the supermarket in order to pick up some bread and milk? Impossible. In fact, all sorts of things have been drifting: snow, rain, sleet and time …
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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 …
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Bright Summer Days And Summer Nights
Dinner at around midnight, friends coming over, the time of day doesn’t matter, there is light, anyway. Midsummer ahead of us, as I look out of the window late in the evening, I spot a hare next to our house. Slowly, I try to grab my camera, the hare stays, but in a position of attention. Picture, beach, fishing, working on my fish filleting skills …
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The Funningur Approach: Coffee Talk With Høgni Reistrup
A peculiarly Faroese characteristic: talking about family, homeland and the meaning of life, which is what we did on that very day, and Høgni Reistrup certainly has picked an adequate place, the village of Funningur. Høgni: singer, musician, writer, editor, reporter, scientist, advocate of Faroese independence and Faroese language enthusiast …
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