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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My Rhubarb, Potato And Green Stuff Field
Good things need time. That’s what it looked like when I had started digging, a good while after the idea had popped up for the very first time. And so I started. A spadeful of earth, another and yet another, jumping onto the spade’s blade with both feet, cutting out big pieces of soil overgrown with grass …
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Hand Tension, Celebrations And Happy At Heart
Feeling tension in my right hand, and satisfaction deep in the heart, all at once. July, sheep-shearing-month, home of summer mist, bright and dull summer colors, the upcoming Ólavsøka-celebration (the national holiday) and My Faroe Islands’ blogaversary. By now, My Faroe Islands has readers from approximately 50 countries across the globe …
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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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Monday-Note Written On A Piece Of Scribbling Paper
Monday afternoon, life in a northern village in the month of June. Seeing a white rental car stopping at our village information board. The co-driver gets out of the car, takes a look and a picture of the map, the driver stays inside the vehicle. They head towards the cemetery …
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April Showers Bring May Flowers
The Faroe Islands in May. Snow, rain, sunshine, strong winds, everything is possible, even the exception to the rule – periods of fine weather. Ah, linger on, thou art so fair! Soon, a well-known and well-liked item will be prepared for use again in the My Faroe Islands world …
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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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