Dear All Greetings! I am writing this blog entry on my first few days in my week-long stay in the magical, mystical and really quite incredible Faroe Islands. This former volcanic island archipelago lies only 500 miles north of the UK, but felt a complete world away - they are dark, brooding and majestic, rising suddenly out of the cold North Sea waters, with vertiginous cliff edges and diagonal green, grassy slopes, often shrouded in cloud, mist and fog, and have been described as the Hawaii of the North Atlantic. The landscape is just breathtaking, the people very friendly and welcoming, and there are some really spectacular sights to see. I'm surprised that there aren't more visitors, it still remains off the tourist radar, but to my mind this of course added to their charm -
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