more pics from photobucket

Ok, so I immediately filled up my flickr account, which is too bad : / i really like the uploader and photo viewer, but here are a few more pics from still later in the day using photobucket. you can view a small kind of crappy slideshow right here, or try going to the actual site

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and you can view a bigger, kinda fullscreen slideshow there : )

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Pictures around Tórshavn August 1, 2011

First, let me say that uploading pictures 4 or 5 at a time on blogger/blogspot is annoying. So, I'll be looking for a better way to upload a whole bunch of pictures at once and then I'll link them from this site. Keep checking back here, in other words, but I may point you to another link for pics in future posts : )


Just outside my hotel/hostel to the east there is a nice sheeptrail (actually a very nice walking trail - part of a huge network that snakes all over the mountains/hills. Amazing for walking. here's one of the island's innumerable waterfalls (most are just little streams and brooks, but very nice).

Fog blows around on Tórshavn looking west from sheeptrail.

The first of many cairns I saw walking around the hills around the top of Tórshavn on the islands of Streymoy. Cairns have been used in the Faroe Islands for hundreds of years to mark pathways in the foggy hills. From what it looks like, some are used just to say "yes, you're still on the path, keep walking", while other cairns have been built closer together in places where there is a steep drop off, a curve in the path, or where the path splits in two. Some of the stonepiles appear to be quite old while other, more elaborate pilings, appear to be more recently made : )Looking back east to the hotel from the westerly "sheeptrail" : )

Still walking east - I told you it was a sheep trail. BTW the sheep are everywhere - even high up on the mountains where there are no fences. I'm not sure if some sheep are actually "wild" (belonging to no one), but I don't know how people would ever gather them all up. Dogs I guess?

Not all sheep here are blurry - just this one.

Looking east over Tórshavn. It had been raining steadily 30 mins earlier.

Many of these nice walking trails periodically have old latched gates which you have to cross through (and close behind you).

The name of the hotel's restaurant. I posted this for Nick, mainly...

Sometimes these walking trails are indicated by these signs : )

Morning view out the window, some sheep terrorizing the parking lot.

Hotel driveway! Has stones and old (non-working) street lights.

Hotel driveway. I was loving this for some reason...

Looking around from a sheeppath.

Stay tuned for more and better pics, I swear I'll get this figured out.

Finally in the Faroes After 20+ Hours of Flights

A dark crappy shot of a whoooole bunch of salmon farming operations in one of the fjords - I think it is a recent attempt to help slightly diversify the Faroese economy which is still something like 95% dependent on fishing. So, this is fish still...but quality raised salmon.

Ok, so, not surprisingly, this is the coolest looking place I've ever seen. But I've been awake for 100000 hours so all I could do was snap a couple of crap shots on the way to my hotel through tinted bus windows at dusk. I promise the photos will get better starting tomorrow. Heavy fog covered nearly everything, and the capital, Tórshavn, was covered with a thick blanket of fog.

The bus trip cost just under 20 bucks Canadian and goes from the island of Vagar to the next island over, Streymoy. You go through a long undersea tunnel, and eventually under a mountain on Streymoy as well. The bus makes stops at some of the small villages along the way.

A quick snap out the front window on Streymoy I think.

A small town that I forgot the name of...oops. But it isn't too far from 'Asfaltwerks', which appears to be a plant that makes asphalt. my linguistic prowess is stunning.

Just another rockin grassy rocky misty mountain, which is to say, a typical shot in the Faroes.

A nice little stream that the road crosses - likely many of the waterfalls empty into this bad boy, it is in a little valley that you drive through.

Some hay (protected from the rain!) and large farm buildings...for farm things?

Some cultivated infields ("bøur" in Faroese, I think...) on the way to Tórshavn. I don't know if these terms are still used but, traditionally, the non-cultivated outfield was known as "hagi". Although I haven't snapped pictures of them yet, wooly Faroese sheep of all colours roam freely everywhere at this time of year. Sheep were scattered about randomly, including on the outside guardrails where they had about two feet of grassy cliff edge to chew on and a very steep drop. Faroese ponies were also chewing and walking around the steep, rocky hills. One was waiting with some kids at a bus stop.

A quick shot of one of the Faroes' innumerable cool waterfalls that run down to the low points of the isles or into the sea everywhere.

Another quick bus snapshot...obviously none of these crappers do the place any justice, but I'll get some good pics!

Shortly after emerging from the undersea Vagar tunnel (Vagar is the island which has the airport...), I saw this sunny peak with fog/mist sticking around it.

This is the same peak about 5 seconds earlier : )