Archive for May, 2008

Not much food grows here in the Faroe Islands, and on my last trip to the grocery store I looked around to find out where it comes from. Here is a list of some of the foods that I saw in one little store:
pears from Holland
broccoli from Spain
red grapes from Chile
green grapes from India
limes […]

The weather has been beautiful and clear this week, though it is still cold by California standards. There has been very little rain, and the hillsides are still more brown than green. When the wind is still and the tide is still, there are beautiful reflections in the bay. At night, the […]

Sometimes the Fuglafjørður harbor is a very busy place, and at other times there doesn’t seem to be much going on. On Sunday and Monday, I didn’t see a single ship, but later in the week, it was very busy, and there were ten different ships here on Wednesday and Thursday. With […]

The weather has been nice, with no rain for a couple of weeks, and people have been outside all over the town doing repair work and maintenance - fixing houses, cars, bridges, boats, gardens. Since I am retired, I enjoy taking pictures of other people working.
I always enjoy the spring gardens in Fuglafjørður. […]

The lower fields along the road that passes my house are home to newborn lambs that arrive in May every year. In a few weeks they will be going back up to the higher mountain fields to graze during the summer.
I am living in the same little house again, right on the edge of […]

I am back in the Faroe Islands again for a two month visit. I arrived on Tuesday evening after a very long trip from San Francisco. The skies over the Faroes were clear when I arrived, and we could see all of the islands from the air.
I am here this time to do […]