Although this blog is labeled as Faroe islands, this will start at the beginning of my travels which is the approximately 20 hours I spent in Iceland. Air Canada, of course, was late 1 1/2 hours. Then I couldn’t locate the rental car van and discovered the I needed a card from Reykjavik an hours drive away. So my planned Golden Circle trip was very late starting.
I managed to see 4 sites on the trip – Thingvellir National Park, the Great Geyser, Kerid Crater and Bruarfoss Waterfall, along with very many tourists
However, that left me some evening hours to walk around Reykjavik and explore
FAROE ISLANDS
A1 1/2 hour flight from Reykjavik and I was ready to start a journey to my home for the next 2 days on the southern part of Vagar island. I’m staying in the village of Sandavigur. (as near as I can tell, the locals don’t pronounce the last part so it sounds like ‘Sandavir’). It has a very pretty church in it and some ancient history associated with the town. After a stop at the local grocery store (there doesn’t appear to be a restaurant), I settled in. Next day I took a hike to Trollkunufingar (witch’s finger) with the wind howling after a night of pouring rain. Not sure what was worse – climbing with the wind at my back or walking down facing that blast.
the Same day – decided I needed a taxi ride -somewhere and my landlady called her father-in-law who had an idea I might like. We drove through 3 villages, the airport, and a very long tunnel. The hills were huge and he told me before the bridge (2006), the mailman hiked over the mountain 3 times a day to deliver to Bourn village and then back again. We ended up at a large falls with a number of photographers already present. One showed me a great photo of a Puffin to make me jealous. Later I walked the neighbourhood and saw a boat builder who runs classes
This is day 4 of the Faroe Island photo workshop and there has been no time to update the blog. My apologies to readers
It’s now the evening of August 10 and the workshop is over. Most have gone home and I have one more full day t fill in before going to London. I’ve had little time to even look at the pictures let alone publish them. but here is one that we all lstood on the beach for about 2 hours waiting for the moon to rise over the stacks as predicted by the Photopills app.
Now back in London, I’ve had a few minutes to look at photos. These are pics from August 8th
Note that I am closing off this blog but I’ve opened up a gallery site under Travel – Faroe Islands to display some new pictures.