We rented a car out to one of our good custimers, and got this video sent this morning ...

The sheeps owns the mountains 😅😅🤣😂

Pig farming has played only a small and now almost vanished role in Faroese agriculture.

However, archaeology shows that pigs were much more important in the Viking era and early Middle Ages.

Dozens of Faroese place‑names include elements like svín (pig), grísur (pig), súgv (sow), gøltur (hog) and purka (sow).

"Fyristøðufólk: Bødvar HjartvarsonTelefon: 217901 / 218901Heimasíða: www.visitsandoy.foTeldupostur: bodvarsdottir@hotmail.com"

Trying to book a campsite for August at Dalur but no reply to emails (I am in Australia) . Could a local call them and see if the campground is still active and if so what the correct email account is?

Thank you :)

My husband and I recently returned from 15 days in the Faroes (May 29-June12), and we learned some things along the way that I thought might be helpful for other travelers.

1.      The Bradt travel guide is great, and we made heavy use of it. I will say that Bradt makes the Faroese people sound quite reserved, so we were surprised by how incredibly friendly folks were. Many of the people we ran into were downright chatty, even by American standards, and we ended up making a lot of friends along the way.

2.      We researched driving rules ahead of time, and I highly recommend watching a couple videos on what to do in the one-lane tunnels. Most were easier than we expected but the one on Kunoy did get my heart rate up! We learned the hard way that “shark teeth” or inverted triangles on the road means that the cars in that lane have to yield. Apparently some parts of the US have adopted this from Europe, but neither of us knew what they meant. There are very few traffic lights or stop signs, so yield signs and shark teeth do a lot of heavy lifting to manage traffic.

3.      Speaking of driving, we learned to go easy on the brakes when driving downhill. We have to do that in the mountains here too, but it seemed like our little car’s brakes overheated much faster than usual so we even had to be careful even on relatively short declines and just keep tapping the brakes.

4.      The Kalsoy buses and ferries are synced up in both directions, so when you get off the ferry, the bus is waiting (even if the ferry is a smidge late), and on the return, if the bus is scheduled to arrive at the harbor at 3:10, you will be able to catch the 3:10 ferry. We left our car in Torshavn and it was well worth it. I would not have wanted to tackle the four one-lane tunnels and have to pull over for the buses, which seem to completely fill the tunnels.

5.      I get super sea sick and had a miserable ferry experience in Orkney, but Bonine plus an Emeterm wristband made all the difference, and I did just fine the various boats and ferries we were on. Started to get a little sick on the Vestmanna bird cliff tour but I was looking at the cliffs rather than the horizon for too long.

6.      We had to visit a pharmacy (apotek) a couple times, and the pharmacists were incredibly helpful. Reusable ice packs were hard to come by, at least at the grocery stores and pharmacies we checked. Items that would be in the grocery store in the US like cough drops, cough syrup, and first aid supplies were usually only found in the pharmacies, although I think we ran into one exception at the Á store in Hoyvik.

7.      Everyone knows just about everyone else, not just in the same village but sometimes several islands over. We had to go to a medical clinic (my husband tore a ligament in his finger) and got to talking with a very sweet woman and her daughter in the waiting room who not only personally knew our Airbnb hosts in a different village, they knew right where our heimablídni host lived.

8.      Google Maps doesn’t always work or is a little bit off, although it did the job the majority of the time. Maps.Me sometimes worked better, sometimes not. Neither one could find some locations, like one of our Airbnbs and the little park in Kunoy. Google Translate does well with Danish but struggles with Faroese.

9.      Open hours can vary quite a lot from what’s posted online or on Google Maps. Sometimes Google said a restaurant was closed, only for us to find it open. More often it was the other way around. We explored Klaksvik and had to laugh because I think five of the places we had planned to visit were closed unexpectedly for one reason or another. FYI, Alfa Bokahandil in Klaksvik seems to be permanently closed or at least has moved locations, and Christianskirkjan is closed throughout 2026 due to roof renovations, and the exterior is totally covered.

10.  English was spoken almost everywhere, but it was useful to learn a few Faroese phrases including “Do you speak English,” etc. Signs and menus were sometimes just in Faroese so we used Google Translate, iffy as it was.

11.  Credit cards could be used almost everywhere. I was glad we got some cash, though, because 1) the bank notes are absolutely beautiful, the prettiest currency I’ve seen and 2) there were a couple tiny places where there was only a cash box. We also did put some coins in tip boxes although tipping wasn’t really expected.

12.  We didn’t make many dinner reservations, but definitely do so for the fancier places in Torshavn, the guesthouse in Gjogv, and Café Fríða if you’re planning on going at a peak time.

13.  The airport is so small and casual that it threw me off, haha. We only needed to get to the airport an hour before our flight. Our flight home didn’t have a gate assigned until about 5 minutes before the flight was supposed to take off, and there are only two or three gates anyway, all within sight of each other. I thought surely our flight had been delayed and we just hadn’t been notified, but nope, it’s just that casual. We landed on time even though we boarded extremely late by large airport standards.

14.  Not sure if this is typical, but while we were there, we found that the weather tended to follow a pattern: fog and often rain in the morning, changeable weather in the middle of the day, clear skies by late afternoon/early evening, fog rolling back in around 10:00 or 11:00pm. We started doing whatever things were less weather-dependent in the mornings and saved our hikes for the afternoons.

15.  I knew some of the villages were tiny, but I didn’t realize just how tiny and isolated they are, and I felt like I was affecting life for the inhabitants just by walking down the street. We were respectful and avoided taking pictures but clearly others were not. If I lived in tiny places like Bour, Gasadalur, Saksun, Tjornuvik, or Kirkjubour, I know I would really resent tourists, and I almost felt like we shouldn’t have been there as just our presence was intrusive. And for the love of God, don’t bring a drone where you shouldn't! Most people abided by the rules, but we saw a couple people flying drones where they shouldn’t have been, even with all the signs against it.

Happy to answer any questions if I can or share our itinerary if helpful. We did a pretty solid mix of hiking and history, since that’s where our interests lie.
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From a tropical archipelago in the Pacific ocean to an archipelago in the North Atlantic!

My wife and I plan to drive around the islands and hike everyday. We’re beginner hikers. Notable hikes we’ve done are Trolltunga and Ryten in Norway and the Lion’s Head in South Africa.

I will also bring a small Mini Pro drone to capture landscapes.

Would appreciate any tips / advice from any of you in the community who are passionate about the Faroes on the following:

1. Weather (when best to hike to avoid fog?)
2. Driving
3. Drone flights
4. Local communities
5. Food
6. Culture

Thank you 🙏

Public toilets (vesi) offer convenient facilities as you discover Faroe Islands.

Some of them are located in the centre of towns, while others are a bit hidden. Some will take you back to the 1970s...

In Gjógv, the public toilet shares a building with… the electric winch engine room at the local harbour. Right in front of the door run the only… narrow-gauge tracks in the Faroe Islands.

The paid public toilet at Mylnugøta, Tórshavn was badly damaged by a fire in November 2024, and now a completely new public toilet will be built. The building, which dates from the 1950s, was in very poor condition. So it was decided to rebuild it from scratch.