Author: Andrew Reilly

First day in a while that we haven’t had to pack up and move in the morning, and instead of poking people into early wakefulness, I seem to have let us all sleep in. So with a hard 2PM deadline to meet our boat driver for a booked visit to the local maelstrom, we got…

Slow start, this morning, as our lovely Rorbu in Balstad was just too comfortable to leave, but leave we did, and headed back to the shops at Leknes for a few more provisions and a little cash money to give to the curator of the museum at Sennesvik that we had been unable to pay…

We started the day, as we do most, in search of coffee. Tragically, our best hope was at the cafe at the Viking museum, which didn’t open until 10:00. So we took the long way round, against satnav directions, via the slow north road. More picturesque that way, too. Doubly tragic, the Viking Museum cafe…

Packed up from the Robuer in the morning, and headed into town in search of a coffee. The man at the front desk had suggested a couple of places near the square might open at nine, in twenty minutes. Since the drive into town lasts three minutes, that gave us time for some sight-seeing before…

There was a little bit of frought around the flights today: the fact that our booking on WF612 from Bergen to Bodø had been rescheduled from 8:35 to 10:30 and re-named the WF614, since we made it, meant that we couldn’t check-in on-line, and had to go to the counter. Also, it turns out that…

Made it to Bergen as expected, yesterday. Quite late in the evening, so we just had dinner at the hotel restaurant, watched a bit of TV and went to bed. This morning we had hotel breakfast, which had lots of everything except for the two actually essential things: good coffee and a croissant. The mackeral,…

Simple plan today. Late start, easy drive to Gjogv, right up at the northern end of Eysturoy, the island north and east of the one we’re staying on. Stop in at Eiði for a look on the way, and Funningur on the way back. Lunch at the cafe at Gjogv, because, being “touristy” by Faroe…

The morning started out a little rocky, as not a cafe in Torshaven (or any of the other villiages we went through along the way) was open. Breakfast plans thwarted. In the end we bought some cold chocolate milk and pastries and blocks of chocolate from the little supermarket near the ferry terminal. Did I…

Cath and I went back into town around 10:30PM on the 29th, to soak up the atmosphere, and perhaps a little beer. Even at that time, parking was near impossible to find, and I had to back out of what turned out to be unnavigable one-lane alleys on more than one occasion. At last we…