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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Slow Fashion In Tórshavn: Sissal Of Shisa Brand
Ullvøruhúsið, the old “Yarn and wool-ware house“. 101 years ago, people walked through the same door, a moody door with a mixture of great looks and charming stiffness. A year ago, the wool-ware house reopened, as the home of the Faroese fashion brands Steinum and Shisa Brand, pronounced like: She’s a brand. Slow fashion in Tórshavn …
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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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Viðareiði: Game Of Waves And Northernmost Village
Through the tunnel, down the road, in Viðareiði, surrounded by mountains and the sea, in this particular case, there’s water from two sides. Viðareiði is one of the two villages on Viðoy in the North of the Faroes, and the gateway to Cape Enniberg, a 700-something meter vertical sea cliff, the northernmost point on the islands. The little harbor of Viðareiði is a perfect location to watch the game of waves. Don’t get too close, the North Atlantic is cold and hungry all the time …
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