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Trimming roof grass in the Faroe Islands
When I took this photo, it was raining lightly, as it had been for the past few hours. There can be only one explanation as to why this woman came out of the house to watch her husband fall to his death. I didn’t stick around for the gory part.
I went walking through the town of Kunoy on the Faroe Islands after driving through a 1988 tunnel that was drilled through a mountainside at a cost of millions so that the 64 villagers would no longer need to take a ferry. I didn’t see any of the villagers on this day. But this whimbrel and its mate didn’t want me there. They must have had a nest somewhere.
Syðrugøta (Faroe Islands) on July 16, 2021
The one festival that wasn’t supposed to be canceled this summer was the G! Festival in the Faroe Islands. Well, this is what the festival looked like on what was to be day two. Very peaceful. As if nothing was supposed to happen here.
The festival was canceled less than a week before due to Covid fears. The country was approaching a 7-day average of new cases that may have hit (are you ready for this?) double digits. That’s right the average had gone up to 7 new cases a day when they said this outdoor festival couldn’t happen. A ridiculous reason to cancel an outdoor event in my opinion, especially since most of the country is vaccinated, vaccination or a negative test was required for entry, and there has been a grand total of one, yes only one, death due to Covid in the Faroe Islands in the past year and a half. Meanwhile, instead of going to the festival, you could walk into a small, indoor bar (without any checking of vaccine status or a recent negative Covid test result) on the Faroe Islands and drink right next to 10 or 20 other people for hours before watching live music that went on indoors from midnight until 4 a.m.!
Anyway, I’m sorry the festival didn’t happen, but I’m really glad I got to visit the Faroe Islands.
Haldarsvík (Faroe Islands)
Haldarsvik wasn’t on my radar for the Faroe Islands, but, like many other small towns, I happened upon it on my way to another place that was (Tjørnuvík). The stone church in the village is from 1856. It is the only octagonal church on the Faroe Islands. Beautiful town with a waterfall going right through the middle. The body of water is not a fjord; that’s the Atlantic Ocean with another island on the other side.
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