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Koltur – a new national park in the Faroe Islands
It’s too small an island to justify a regular boat schedule. A helicopter stops by three times a week to deliver supplies (and presumably news) from the mainland. Yet for the two residents of Koltur,...
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Faroe Islands: an encounter with living folk culture
The Faroe Islands are frankly exotic. They’re a self-governing Danish territory located about 360 km from Lerwick in the Shetlands, slightly closer to Iceland in the west than Norway in the east. They...
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Faroe Islands and the British occupation
When you step from the plane on arrival in the Faroe Islands, you may be hard pressed to imagine the islands as a critical location in the Second World War. Yet look a little closer and you’ll uncover...
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Walking in the Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands lie to the north of Scotland and for those who haven’t heard much about the rugged beauty of the islands they may only be aware of their existence from tuning in to the shipping...
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Faroe Islands: a bird watching paradise
The Faroe Island may be located in a rather inconvenient place for human visitors – let’s face it, you’re hardly likely to pop in on your way to somewhere else. For birds however, it’s an altogether...
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Summer of fun in the Faroes
In recent years the Faroe Islands have become an increasingly popular holiday destination. Just an hour’s flight north of Scotland and two hours from London, these small dots of land in the North...
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Island hopping by helicopter in the Faroe Islands
On my recent trip to the Faroes I was excited to visit the island of Mykines, famous for its huge colony of sea birds. Even more exciting was the prospect of heading to the island by helicopter....
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To Mykines, in search of puffins
The moment 8 of us stepped out of the helicopter, we pretty much doubled the population of the island. Only 9 permanent residents remain on Mykines, the westernmost of the Faroe Islands and yet as I...
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Torshavn – the capital that’s more like a small town
Torshavn is not your typical capital city. Home to barely 20,000 people and with a modest selection of restaurants and bars, for most of the year it has the feel of a small provincial town (if you...
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Pain and pleasure: Hiking the hills of the Faroe Islands
Take a walk for more than a few minutes in the Faroe Islands and you’re guaranteed to come up against a big hill. The terrain of the 18 islands of this sub-Arctic archipelago is so uneven that pretty...
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