Archive for January, 2006

In the towns and villages in the Faroe Islands, the houses all seem to be one of a kind. In Tórshavn, there are some housing developments with look-alike houses, but that phenomenon hasn’t reached Fuglafjørður. Here are some of the houses I passed on a Saturday afternoon walk around the town. Most […]

We have had clear blue skies for two days, with a promise of more to come. All day today the roads and hillsides were covered with frost, even though we haven’t had rain for two days. I walked very carefully when I went into town. When the wind is still, I […]

This morning I saw the amazing sight of sunshine shining in my windows. I just stood and looked out the window for a few minutes. Before I could get my shoes on to go out and take a picture, the sun had moved back behind the mountain. It has been nearly two […]

Yesterday morning I looked out of my window and saw blue sky and sun shining on the snowy mountain tops across the bay from my house. That didn’t last long, and within a couple of hours time we had sun, rain, snow, and then more sun and rain. With high mountains on […]

We had heavy rain last night and this morning, filling all of the creeks with rushing water, and the hillsides have water running in all of the gullies. I think that the road that goes from my house to the main part of town must have dozens of little creeks that go through pipes under […]

Every time I walk to town, I pass dozens of sheds and boat houses along the water below the road. Many of these buildings have two or three levels, and they say a lot about living in the Faroe Islands. Many of them have a boat house with a small boat inside. […]