Archive for April, 2006

Yesterday I made one last trip on the ferry from Leirvík to Klaksvík. On Saturday, April 29, a new tunnel will be opened that will link these two towns and link the island of Borðoy with Eysturoy. Klaksvík is the second largest city in the Faroe Islands, with a population of about 5,000 […]

Our choir sang for the Leirvík Flag Day celebration. It was a cold, windy, rainy, stormy, snowy (etc.) day, and everyone was dressed in warm, waterproof clothes. I couldn´t help but notice the wide variety of hats, especially children’s hats. Here are a few samples of warm Faroese hats.

Today is my birthday, and Faroese flags are flying all around the town! Incidentally, it is also Flag Day, commemorating the creation of the first Faroese flag. This is the first time I have had my birthday on a holiday.
In Faroese, there are two words for “sixty” -
trýss is pronounced sort of […]

On Easter Sunday, I sailed with the new Smyril 2 ferry on a cruise around the Faroe Islands. The cruise was sold out, with about 800 people on board. The reason they scheduled the cruise for Easter Sunday is that the ferries don’t run on that day. The Smyril 2, is a […]

Easter is a very important holiday for the church in the Faroe Islands, and there are many special services during the season of Lent that precedes it.
The Fuglafjørður church had a service every Wednesday evening, and for these services, we had a guest priest from another parish, while our priest was off visiting […]

The calendar says that April is spring. We have had a couple of weeks of mostly snow - snow at night that covers the town and then melts half-way up the hillsides during the day. One day when the snow had stopped and the roads were clear, I walked into town and took […]

I have been studying the Faroese language in the Fuglafjørður Evening School. We have a three hour class every Monday night from October through early May. Only three of us have attended the entire course, but quite a few others have come for part of the time. The class is taught in […]

Whenever the weather is good, I like to walk into town to do my errands. It is about a kilometer (0.6 mile). I always keep my camera in my pocket, because I never know what I might see. I can nearly always see fishing ships, and here is one sailing out of […]