The last place I visited before I left the Faroes was Nólsoy, a small island 20 minutes across the water from Tórshavn. Shortly after I arrived, a friendly local invited me in for a coffee - foolishly I spurned the offer as I wanted to walk to the south of the island before the next [...]

From Suðuroy I headed back to Tórshavn, where I spent my last evening in the Faroes. It’s far from the most exciting of towns, but it’s nice enough, and its historical centre on the Tinganes peninsula is very picturesque.

Having seen much of the northern islands, I headed down to the southernmost island of Suðuroy, where the weather is supposed to be nicer than up north. The weather was atrocious during my bus journey from Leirvík back to Tórshavn so I was hoping it would be true. In wild wind and rain I thought [...]

One of the highlights of my trip was getting a boat from Hvannasund on the island of Viðoy, out past the island of Svinoy to the eastern-most island of Fugloy (Bird Island). I was very lucky and did the trip on a fabulous sunny day, and it was one of the most amazing boat journeys [...]

After I’d explored a bit of Eysturoy, I headed over to Borðoy and the Faroes’ second-largest town, Klaksvík. The journey involves getting the ferry from Leirvík to Klaksvík, which has been described as ‘one of the loveliest half-hour ferry rides anywhere’, and it is quite impressive. Sadly a tunnel is currently under construction which will [...]

As it turned out, I didn’t even get to the Faroes that evening. We flew to Aberdeen, where we had a scheduled stop to pick up passengers, but the stop turned out to be longer than planned. Apparently the weather in the Faroes was too bad to land, and we were waiting to see if [...]

7 July 2005 turned out to be a bad day to go to the Faroe Islands. My plan had been to go into work for the morning before heading to Stansted for my 3.30pm flight, but at ten to nine, as I was approaching Kings Cross on the Victoria Line, three bombs exploded on various [...]