Day 8 Torshavn, Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islands are a self governing nation and a semi dependant part of Denmark using the Danish currency and military but otherwise a fully functioning nation of it’s own. There are 52,000 Faroese, most of them living in two towns, with Torshavn the capital having about 22,000 citizens.

We (along with some other fellow passengers) had arranged an independent walking tour of the city in the morning and a RIB (rigid inflatable boat) tour of the sea caves and Puffin colonies in the afternoon. The walking tour was interesting enough but the guide we had (her name is almost unpronouncable in English) over explained everything and a result the tour moved at glacial pace. Too slow for us and after an hour we left them to it so we could conduct our own walking tour of Torshavn, the unintended highlight being when Christine locked herself in a restroom when the handle fell off the inside of the door!

Anyway she was quickly rescued and in a massive irony the exact same thing happened to one of our companions later in the day, says something for the quality of Faroese toilets I guess....

The RIB tour was fantastic, we saw heaps of Puffins, a seal swimming in the ocean and the sea caves and sea stacks were amazing, the boats were able to get right inside the caves and in one case all the way through to the other side. Really rugged country, I’m not sure the photos are able to do it justice.

Trivia update - again only a six but we had a win. The team that had won every day to date were short of their two key players and didn’t even feature in the top 4.

Photos - Tórshavn old town; grass roofed houses; RIB tour; the suits we wore while on the RIB; a sea stack; the next few are sea caves/sea stacks.Read more