Archive for June, 2006

Whatever your taste in music may be, someone will be performing it at a concert somewhere in the Faroe Islands this summer. There are concerts in all sorts of venues: clubs, restaurants, churches, schools, beaches, soccer stadiums, and performance halls. I have been to several concerts within the past weeks, and there […]

Summer has arrived in Fuglafjørður, and it has striking similarities to summers of my childhood. Fog! I grew up near the Pacific Ocean just south of San Francisco, and every summer when school would let out, the fog would come in and stay for most of the summer.
We had some lovely days here […]

Late Friday evening, I boarded the Narvik in Stamsund, and headed back to Bergen.
On Saturday we had beautiful weather, and passed through some beautiful scenery. We stopped in several small towns, and were able to get off the ship and walk around for a while. A couple of times we passed through areas […]

I sailed north along the coast of Norway from Bergen to Stamsund on the Nordlys one of the Hurtigruten ferries (the Norwegian “fast ferries”), a three day trip. This trip seems to be popular with retirees, because I seemed to be in the younger half of the population on this ship.
On Wednesday, we sailed […]

During my year’s stay in the Faroe Islands, one of the places that I wanted to visit was Norway. There is a Faroese ferry, the Norrona, that makes weekly round trips from Tórshavn to Norway, Denmark, and Iceland. On Monday morning at 8:30, I left with the Norrona, arriving in Bergen at noon […]

I have just returned from a ten day trip to Norway, spending 8 1/2 days on ferries. It still feels like I’m on a rocking ship, even though I am pretty sure that my dining room table isn’t moving.
I was looking forward to seeing forests and cities again, after ten and a half months […]

Here are a few scenes of Fuglafjørður in the spring. In the Faroe Islands, you can always talk about the weather, and during the past week we have had some lovely spring and summer weather.
Several months ago three ewes moved into the sheep shed attached to my house. Today three ewes and three […]