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 …
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Wimmelpicture In The Faroese Style
A scene created to astonish the world, picture-perfect and typically Faroese. The small village of Tjørnuvík in the extreme North of the island Streymoy. Remote houses surrounded by high, verdurous mountains, meadows and a sandy beach. A spot popular among local divers and surfers (the few being around from time to time), shadowy quite often …
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Gásadalur Village Still Life
An afternoon in Gásadalur on the island Vágar. That day, heavy rain poured down before I approached the befogged village. Shortly afterwards, it cleared up at a single blow. Another half an hour later: a friendly dog roaming around, laundry on a clothes pole …
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Katrin’s NoðaStova: Mohair And Seaman’s Yarn in Fuglafjørður
The port of Fuglafjørður plays a significant role in the pelagic fisheries of the North Atlantic. And it might as well be the only harbor world-wide that’s home to a shop selling mohair wool, NoðaStova, the shop that Katrin K. Petersen recently started. You don’t need to be in search of yarn at all, in order to pop in. Café, beach walk, shipwreck …
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Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year!
Season’s greetings from a little village on an island in the middle of the North Atlantic, before everyone’s busy with the important things. Singing, being with family and friends, spending time together; sharing; Christmas cookies, Christmas customs and Christmas spirit. Santa has already been around …
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Sandoy, On A Lazy Afternoon
Sandoy ride, cruising around aimlessly, after visiting some friends. In Sandur: quaint dunes and white sand. Next stop: Húsavík, an old village that’s also blessed with a beautiful beach. Close to Skopun, I met some animals. Knitting at the beach, ferry route, new subsea tunnel under construction …
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Fossá On Streymoy, A Worthy Representative Of Its Kind
Some facts are cast-iron. 18 islands, somewhere in the middle of the North Atlantic, let’s say remote, halfway between Scotland and Iceland, capital Tórshavn, … and so on. But: Never trust anyone who states that it’s possible to count waterfalls in the Faroe Islands. Flight of fancy. Silly. Totally fabricated. Because it’s not, for a number of reasons …
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