Created by volcanic eruptions and subsequently eroded by glaciers, winds and waves, this dreamlike archipelago sits halfway between Iceland and Britain.
“Do you see the black house over there? The one with the green roof, next to the yellow house?” asks Hanus Hojgaard, our Faroese guide, as we round a bend and spy a cluster of brightly painted timber-clad homes sprinkling the grassy slopes above the ocean.
Created by volcanic eruptions about 55 million years ago, and subsequently eroded by glaciers, winds and waves, this dreamlike archipelago sprouts almost halfway between Iceland and Britain, whose northern tip is about 300 kilometres away as the gull flies . “We’re fortunate with the weather,” says Hanus, his eyes squinting at the sunshine. Apparently it rains here about 300 days a year. Sometimes fog sweeps in, slashing visibility, making the regular trail markers a godsend.Particularly striking are the cairns – cone-shaped piles of boulders dripping with mythology and folklore. Some say you should never move them lest you anger the islands’ ancient trolls.
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