My Faroe Islands celebrates its 2nd birthday: My Faroe Islands. Anja’s blog. Pictures and stories about my second home in the middle of the North Atlantic. My blog has a website, a Facebook Page, a channel on Vimeo and, most important, readers from all over the world …
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Lambs! Welcome to our Racetrack and Kindergarten
A racetrack has been set up close to a friend’s house. First I scanned it with my binoculars (kitchen window), then I went over, in order to take a closer look at the starting field. Hilarious. A gang of lambs on a dead-end village road, speeding and galloping back and forth, next to a lamb kindergarten. Want to see them running? Video link included …
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Shadow Theater: A Silky Feeling Of Summer
Light is back on the islands. Like: Looking out of the window at 22:50 p.m. and watching a glowing sky, freckle-faced and pretty in orange and pink, above the silhouette of a quiet and deserted road on one side, some houses on the other. A silky feeling of summer has wrapped our village and the neighboring mountains, hills and waters …
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Today: Successfully Flirting With Faroese Weather
Back on the islands, flirting with Faroese weather. When the ferry Norröna arrived in Tórshavn this morning, we started out with pure winter. Snow on mountains and roads, dull, slippery, hail, strong winds. Had a hard time unloading my luggage, didn’t want to loose parts of my car, neither doors nor tailgate. Only a few hours later: Sunshine, blue skies …
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Rainbow Alert! Take A Walk On The Wild Side
A shiny rainbow in our bay, magical appeal, so thick that it makes you feel like: I want to hop on and take a walk on the wild side. There’s quite a lot of rain on the Faroe Islands, I grant, but also constant change in the weather. Which makes the islands a perfect spot for rainbow lovers …
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Today: Here’s what you’re missing
Our village today. Severe nighttime storm: over, replaced by picture-book weather. Activity since arrival on the islands: Driving from our village to Runavík, four times inside two days. Reason: an annoying internet router, stubbornly refusing to do its work. The good news: Everything is back to normal. Bonus pack: fantastic weather …
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A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound
Are you familiar with John Irving’s story A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound, originally found within his novel A Widow for One Year? Little Ruth wakes up in the middle of the night. In her dream, her bed has been shaking. My version of A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound is Faroese …
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