Laptop, air route and vacation planner handy. You flirt with taking a trip to the Faroe Islands? Could be a good idea – or rather not. In order to add clarity, take the My Faroe Islands Test below. You repeatedly displayed one of the following behavioral characteristics or mindsets in the past? You might want to reconsider your traveling plans …
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Sketchbook of Winds: The Gently Patterned Dunes of Sandoy
Not a desert, not a Fata Morgana, but still! Sandur beach. The place to be, in case you’re looking for white sand, barefoot moments and beach grass. Mølheyggjar, sketchbook of winds. The sand dunes of Sandoy, gently decorated with wave-like patterns and yesterday’s footprints …
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The Wind Shelter: A futuristic object in the open countryside
Ready for an outstanding panorama view and something that looks like „OMG, aliens have landed their spaceship on the Faroe Islands and left their command center organ behind“, at least from a distance? Let me take you to the very south of Eysturoy. We drive past Runavík, head for the Neshagi wind mile park and start to look around …
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Icing sugar on mountain tops and upside down waterfalls
Winter can be harsh on the Faroes – but yet exceptionally beautiful. Evidence: The picture I took during a walk, 10:34 a.m. that day, on the road that leads from our village to Funningsfjørður. Our long and winding road: Whenever I’m out here, I am amazed at what I see. Giant slices of tiered basalt, rocky cliffs and, on windy days, upside down waterfalls …
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Video: This year’s first fall storm. Essence: Intense
Imagine waking up in the morning, because of that sound. Gusts of wind shaking walls, full tilt. Your neighbor’s tree and bushes troubled. Blessedly, you are prepared. The day before you have done all the shopping in the supermarket. Right after you heard about the gale warning …
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Ocean rower Livar Nysted: „No time for babysitting out there“
No one to help. Nowhere to stop. Only the other side. Ocean rowing. One of the hardest sports in the world. Many say: the hardest of all. More people have been to space than have rowed the Atlantic Ocean. I’m just about to meet up with one of them. Livar Nysted (45). Faroese ocean rower and painter …
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