Hej Føroyar: dagur 3
May 24, 08
Day 3
Saturday morning we woke up early as well. With the constant daylight there seems to be a different inner clock.
View from Mariann’s dining room window onto the fjord
Another window looking up the same fjord
Scary drive up on the partially unfenced mountain roads towards Gjógv
The road we had to take
The beautiful gorge of Gjógv
Somebody fishing
The very picturesque town of Gjógv
My friend, Mariann, a true Faroese woman
More of this tiny town Gjógv’s ocean view
Sheep running around everywhere…
Gjógv’s local school house
Sheep everywhere…sometimes one of us had to get out to chase them off.
Here we are at Tjørnuvík beach
Opposite the beach we are facing the luscious mountain side of Tjørnuvík
Facing the “village” side of Tjørnuvík
Getting beautified on the Faroes
A celtic princess in the making…
So much sight-seeing left us tired. But not too tired to go to bed way past midnight again. This has something to do with the day light which keeps lingering.
Tags: Sight-seeing in the Faroes
May 27th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
OMG, wt a picturesque scenery it is
June 5th, 2008 at 2:52 am
Those are such beautiful pictures of a very beautiful place! The buildings are brightly painted, the grass so green. I could almost feel the cool air deep in my lungs. Even without trees, I think we would love to stay there. By the way, what kind of food do they enjoy? Anything unique?
June 5th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Hi Chris,
We had fish, chicken, and beef for dinner. My Faroese friend told me that 70% of the imported beef is from Iceland and New Zealand.
The only time I had lamb (well, there are 70,000 of them running around on the islands…) was in form of cold cuts and that was very good.
The only time we ate out was when our ten-year-old spotted a Burger King in the shopping mall in Tórshavn, the capital city.
But I had also read in the Atlantic Airways magazine that a lot of young professional cooks return from their abroad vocational training with many continental dishes, such as Italian, French, etc. which seems to sell.
I had looked at one menu at a restaurant in Tórshavn and it looked very continental.
I guess Faroese cooking is made to have at home. Or they think it is only good enough for homemade cooking?
Most of their products seem to be made for export (incl. tourism) or self-consumption. I just did not see much sale of local things to local people….
One recipe I got from my friend included “leverpostej” (liverwurst) which includes a warmed-up liverwurst topped with apples, bacon bits, mushrooms, and onions. I will make it sometime this week.
Have you ever tried liverwurst? I don’t care for liver, but liverwurst – especially on the Faroes – is heavenly.
I know I will return to the Faroes. Hey, I even got an invitation to stop by for tea at Roy’s place (check out his website: http://www.framtak.com/)
People usually go to the Faroes for hiking, bird-watching, fishing, and nowadays diving. Well, I would like to add photography as I had a lot of fun taking pictures there.
Would you like to go there someday?
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January 8th, 2010 at 11:14 am
The place looks so beautiful and cool, …it has the true beauty of nature. I like it, Clear water and rocky ground looks great.
Here we have some sort of the same islands closely attached together. The have clear white sands and clear water. ..i went and spend there 5 days. it was such adorable great experience that i can never in my life. yeah! I love nature.