Blue-eyed horse on Witches Finger Trail
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Archive for Faroe Islands
Trøllkonufingur
Trøllkonufingur (AKA Troll Woman’s Finger, Witch’s Finger, or Witches Finger)
Klaksvik
Klaksvik (Faroe Islands)
This was almost the view from my sleeping spot one night this past July in the Faroe Islands. It didn’t end up being my resting place due to two things. The first is the wind, which was so strong on the prior night that I didn’t sleep so well as my campervan rocked much of the night. The wind was strong when I took this so I opted for a spot nearby, between two buildings, to gain some shelter from the wind. The second is that this location was at the base of a hiking trail. One thing I learned from prior nights is that the Faroese people like to hike early in the morning, and I didn’t really want a stream of people coming by my campervan while I was still waking up.
Viðareiði Kirkja
Viðareiði Kirkja (Faroe Islands – July 2021)
Today’s photo is best viewed while listening to Afsky. I was listening to Afsky while taking the photo, and then, while processing the photo a couple months later, Afsky magically played randomly off my hard drive (which has about 5,000 songs to choose from–and only about 15 of them are Afsky).
One of the live members of Afsky and I were chatting at Metal Magic a week before this photo was taken. I told him I was going to the Faroe Islands, and he informed me that he had lived there for a while. The music on my phone after Metal Magic was trimmed down to Afsky and bands playing at Josefstadt, so, not surprisingly, I listened to a lot of Afsky while cruising around in my campervan on the Faroe Islands. The two went together perfectly, and now I think of the Faroe Islands when Afsky comes on or Afsky when a random photo of the Faroe Islands shows up as my random, desktop image of the day like this photo did.
“Ved det spejlklare hav, ved det svulmende hav
Grav der min grav!
Ja, giv mig en grav ved det åbne hav”
Horses of Tjørndalsá
Faroese horses
Most mornings on the Faroe Islands I would wake up to sheep around my campervan. However, after my final (rainy) night, which was spent next to a stream near Klovin, I woke up to these beauties.
Árnafjørður
7-photo photomerged panorama of Árnafjørður in the Faroe Islands
I didn’t see another human during the half hour or so that I wandered around the town of Árnafjørður.
My camper van was supposed to have internet. It did not. My phone was supposed to have internet. It did not. (Orange sucks BTW. Advertised as working in the Faroe Islands, Scotland, and the Czech Republic, it didn’t work at all in the Faroe Islands or Scotland and barely worked–at super slow speeds and only sometimes–in the Czech Republic.) I was supposed to be going to a festival in the Faroe Islands. It was canceled. So I had a lot of extra time in the Faroe Islands but no way to know what to do with it. I didn’t have a guidebook. All I had was Google maps.
I drove to every place I could see on Google maps, but since I didn’t have internet, I didn’t know what would be there when I arrived or what to do in these towns. However, the Faroe Islands provided a solution. In every town, there is a really cool map/town overview sign which I would read before exploring. An example of one of these can be seen in the Árnafjørður sign below.
Árnafjørður town map