Faroe way

I am back from the Pharoahs, the land of dry deserts, pyramids and scarabs. Well maybe not quite.

Day 1:
I got all packed up (all in one backpack, practising for Europe), then Adrian and I took the bus to Mathieu's place to help him carry his luggage to the airport. He was bringing his bike and planning to bike around the islands this week. Good luck to that bastard.

There are 15 of us in total (from Gamli: me, Tom, Adrian, Julia, Leif, former gamli Mathieu; from Álfhús: Roisin, Fionnuala, Hannah, Marin and Linda; & our icelandic friends Anna Vala, Ásta, Gunnar and Kristján) and we get all checked in, and around 2 they open the doors towards the plane and everyone loads up on duty-free merchandise (mostly alcohol and candy) and pile into the plane. We get sandwiches, drinks and chocolate, and we have a beautiful view of Iceland through the plane window as we fly over it (pics will be on my site soon).

As we are nearing our destination we can see large cliffs emerging from the ocean as we fly in between them. We land on Vágar island, take out some money in the airport (the Faroes use Danish kroners, though are starting to have their own bills, kind of easy to convert from icelandic because you just move the decimal to the left when going to danish, though it is slightly more) and then take the bus to the capital Tórshavn. On the way we go through small towns, with similar looking to houses as in Iceland but more turf-roofed buildings. And a lot of sheep. Many lightly snowed mountains, cliffs, and waterfalls.

We arrive in Tórshavn and Gunnar arranges taxis, and most of us, except Anna Vala, Leif and Roisin who decide to walk (ends up being about 45 mins, which we end up having to walk up and down many times), are driven up to our hostel on the top of the cliff looking over the city. We get settled in and eat some food, some starting to crack open the booze, using drinks from some vending machine with what might be 5 or 10 year old pop as mixers. A group of us head down the cliff, through the maze of streets towards downtown to some pizza place, where pizzas and fries were bought, except for my pepsi (I kind of walked out and forgot to pay). After food we headed to the café/pub Kaffi Natur, which would be our hang out place for the rest of our trip.

Taxi home and then sleep...