Finland Faroes 2003

Yesterday upon arrival at the Faroes’ Vága Airport, my Maersk Air plane was nowhere to be seen on the runway. It worried me that I

I arrived at the airport this morning in Vágar, a one-hour bus ride from the Faroese capital of Tórshavn, prepared for my departure from these

I have just arrived in Fuglafjørður. Fuglafjørður (pop. 1600) literally means “bird fjord” and it’s sixty km north of Tórshavn on the island of Eysturoy.

The islands in this archipelago have to be seen to be believed. If you have seen photos on the Internet of their green slopes, abruptly

I have bought a dozen CDs of varying styles of Faroese music, ranging from Christmas carols to rock, to a sixties pop recording by the

I am sitting in the Býarbókasavnið (Tórshavn Town Library), writing from one of their two Internet terminals. The first thing I did in Tórshavn, after

In my last post I wrote that I had sent an E-mail to Scandinavian Music Group (and Ultra Bra’s former) lead guitarist, Joel Melasniemi. On

Yesterday after I sent my travel post I called Scandinavian Airlines and booked a flight from Helsinki to Copenhagen at half the price of the