Thursday, 19 July: An early evening flight from Reykjavík (the little domestic airport in town) to Faroe Islands. After 1 hour's flight, we land at Vágar Airport through very low hanging clouds. | ![]() |
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3 members of the Icelandic band Ultra Mega Technobandið Stefan (who are playing at G! Festival later this evening) in front of our Atlantic Airways aircraft.
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![]() An ad in the airport luggage hall. (They really are everywhere - I mean the sheep. Once during our stay we have to drive around one sheep who's sleeping in the middle of the road!) |
![]() Car park outside the airport. Here we get on the airport shuttle bus, and drive through the clouds into Tórshavn. |
![]() A mountain through the clouds. |
![]() Don't worry, the house isn't on fine - it's only the sun ;-) |
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![]() Driving through the clouds is magic, but it's also a little spooky. |
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![]() Looks like geothermal steam, but it's a cloud. (Unlike Iceland, Faroe Islands are not volcanically active.) |
![]() Here we are actually *above* the clouds, even though we're only about 300m above sea level. |
![]() As we come into town, we see that Nólsoy, the island opposite, has a nice round cap on its head. |
![]() Or is it a loooong wig? |
Our hotel is by the harbour, where we have a little walk around 11PM. (For Dan & Co.: you can seethe hill around your hotel being half covered by low clouds in this photo.) And for everyone else: what look like dirt on my lens in these photos are all seagulls or some other birds. |
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