Hotel Vagar Vagur

Sumba is a small village in the southern end of Suðuroy in the Faroe Islands. Sumba is situated on the south western coast of Suðuroy. The village is not protected be a fjord; the sea is mostly quite rough outside Sumba. But apart from the seaside there are high mountains around Sumba, the back of Beinisvørð rises dramatically 469 m from the sea. From Sumba it looks green, but if you see it ...

I took some photos from the village Porkeri. There is a beautiful and charming old wooden church, black and white with grass roof. There is also a local museum and a community house with public toilets and shower, the house was not ready yet, while I was there on Saturday the 22nd ...

Akraberg is the southernmost place in the Faroe Islands and of course in Suðuroy, which is the southernmost island. You can drive all the way to Akraberg and all the way to the edge, where a vertical cliff starts. There are two red houses there and a lighthouse from 1909. No people just sheep and birds. One of the two houses is ...

Sandvík is the northernmost village in the island Suðuroy in the Faroes. The population is around 100. Sandvík has a Viking history. Sigmundur Brestisson, a Viking chief, was swimming from the island Skúvoy to Sandvík, where he was killed by Torgrímur Illi (Torgrimur the Mean). There is a monument raised in Sandvík over Sigmund Brestisson, the monument is made by Hans Pauli Olsen. There are also two ...

I visited Tvøroyri at the Midsummer Festival and took many photos there. I have uploaded some of them here. Tvøroyri is an interesting village with many different things to see. There is a museum and a gallery; there is a hotel with a restaurant and bar. In the harbor there is the Old Shop (Krambúðin), which is the oldest building in Tvøroyri, built in 1836 by the Royal ...

Trongisvágur is a village in Suðuroy. The neighboring village Tvøroyri is situated along the same fjord as Trongisvágur. The municipality is The Municipality of Tvøroyri with around 1800 people. There is a nice park further east towards the tunnel to Hvalba. In the park there are narrow paths and further down there is a river and benches with table and barbecue facilities.

Au petit matin de notre première nuit à Gjogv un éclairage superbe nous met en forme pour la journée.









Le stade international des Féroé qui accueille les plus grandes équipes de foot d’Europe !!! Occasion pour ...

Le débarquement à Thorshavn vers minuit montre combien la nuit tarde à venir sous ces latitudes.









Départ de l’auberge de jeunesse. Big Toy commence à ressembler à un 4x4 lavoir.









Amis voyageurs : Les Iles Feroe ...

One more day on the Faroe Islands & with SIC I got one more day to work with SIC and the possibility to travel together with them to Copenhagen wednesday morning. In Kastrup, the tour bus would come and get them. Since I should have been at my day-work today, I decided to work the day from my room at the Nordic House. A lot of coffee and I managed to make a full day's work AND to write about yesterday and to pick some photos and process them ...

THE FAROE ISLANDS Our next stop was the Faroe Islands, another place we had never known about before. It is an independent country but with a special relationship with Denmark. (Denmark we were learning is the regional powerhouse with relationships with the Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Greenland similar to those the United Kingdom enjoys with some of their former colonies.) We had learned that the Faroe Islands are perhaps one of the rainiest places on the ...