I Havn

Endelig hjemmeweekend! Blev sendt en anelse til tælling i dag af kramper + gnavenhed, så aflyste alle planer og dedikerede denne lørdag til sofa, vattæpper, varme drikke og tudefilm.

Det hjalp.

Og så hjalp det også lidt at kigge alle billederne fra sidste weekends visit på Færøerne igennem. Men så kom jeg i tanker om, at jeg burde udvælge nogle af dem og vise til jer - og så blev jeg ganske træt igen og måtte lige have en lille lur på sofaen.

Heldigvis har I jo været med til konfirmation på Færøerne før. Hvis I missede det dengang, så klik lige HER og se, hvordan basis-opskriften på sådan en affære er.

Hvad jeg ikke nåede i fjor, var at besøge Tórshavn - så der skal vi hen i dag.

*** advarsel: foto spam. hvis bygninger og landskaber ikke lige er 

din kop te, må vi hellere ses en anden dag ***

@ N ~ finally got round to looking through the six-hundred-odd photos we took last weekend.  My sister came with me to the Faroe Islands, and when we went out for a drive, I handed her my camera and instructed her to point-and-click, which she duly did.

Fortunately, she fell in love with the place as much as I did the first time I came, so it was a joy to have her along - - but it did also mean we have an incredible amount of "oh look there's a mountain and it's pretty" and "look, a sheep! and another one" shots.

Last time I went, I posted these pictures.  This time, I'm steering clear of the cakes (trust me, there were just as many) , instead taking you on a little walk through the old part of Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands.

TINGANES - Wikipedia translates it to "parliament

point" or something along those lines, which is about

accurate. It was the site of the old Ting (which means

parliament) and was founded in 825, 

again according to our friend Wikipedia.

The beautiful old houses are still home to the

Faroese parliament and local government:

I peered through the windows to the PM's office,

but he wasn't there :-)

My sister and our two local guides bravely

ventured out to this tiny, deserted island.

(It will declare its independence any day now ... :-)

Lovely entrance, lovely lamp post, lovely building

Old Claus Poulsen really knew what he did

when he built it back in 1750  (this sign hangs over

the door, not visible in the picture above)

We spent some quality time here with our two

very competent local guides

Something about this place makes you

want to JUMP and be HAPPY!

View back towards the city. Look at me sitting

there, pleased as punch

More pretty buildings

I think some lucky person actually lives here (I mean,

I don't think this house is a public building, even

thought it is right next to the red houses you

see in the pictures above)

We're not at Tinganes anymore...

Awww, look at the puffin :-)  

(of course, when I look at it, I invariably think

"yum, dinner. tiny little drumsticks". Spending time

in the Faroes does that to a person)

- And now for something completely different. Oceans&Islands:

This last photo here is of a small village called

Gásadalur. A tunnel was opened in 2006, so now

you can drive here. It takes 10 minutes from my friends'

house, if you don't make too many Kodak stops.

When I started coming to the Faroe Islands in 2002,

I didn't visit this village.  I could have taken a helicopter

I guess, but for many years, the only way

of getting here was by boat (see how far down

the ocean actually is), or by walking across the mountain

-which the postman did twice a week.

And now, as I said - ten minutes' drive....

2006: rest of world is connected to Gásadalur.

These people truly amaze me.

Oh, and the second last picture - the island you can

see in the background is the westernmost island in

the Faroes. It's called Mykines, and last time I asked,

it had a population of 9. Nine.

My friend's dad has a house there. When they all go,

the population doubles or triples...

Have a lovely weekend!

Signs of life

Hej *vinke*

Jeg er ikke død. Jeg har bare holdt fri. Og været på Færøerne. Det dør man ikke af; til gengæld er der en vis risiko for at blive overvægtig. Men det må vente til et senere indlæg - skal lige have sorteret 460 billeder først (en del af dem taget af en 4-årig veninde, der er både bras og genialitet imellem, kan ikke helt bestemme mig men tror måske hun har potentiale til at blive en bedre fotograf end moi)

Har også tapetseret lidt mere; vi er ikke nået til at male endnu men det bliver sandsynligvis ikke haremsfarvet (kan ikke bestemme mig for om jeg er skuffet).

Da jeg tapetserer sådan lidt efter fingermalingsmetoden ser mine hænder efter en dags hårdt slid ud, som om nogen har glemt dem under Andesbjergenes brændende sol. Men SÅ er det jo godt, at jeg i USA købte den smarte version af Helosan's kopattesalve. Se bare lige her, hvor langt man kan komme med fangsy navn og trendy emballage:

Danish product. Has looked this way forever.

Farmer needs never search long for it;

bright blue colour ensures it stands out between

all his...ehm....cow accessories.

American product. Udderly sMOOth.

Fancy packaging ensures popularity with

consumers, perhaps less so with dairy farmers

but am sure it comes in gallon sizes as well. (?)

Men alverdens smarte emballage og nette ordspil kunne ikke hjælpe på ydmygelsen ved kassedamens gennemtrængende stemmeføring, da hun sagde "Mam, I've put your udder cream in the small plastic bag on top".  Følte mig en anelse kvæg-agtig, lige der i butikken...

@N - I am not dead. Not even over-worked. I took some time off, and jetted off to the Faroe Islands because I am just that kind of jet-setting, leave-at-drop-of-hat, spur-of-the-moment kind of girl.  Or rather, I had a party invitation and also some vacation time due that had to be used before May 1st. Spent a lovely long weekend there (will blog about it later, there are some pics you will just love), and the rest of my time off I spent putting up more wallpaper*. And there's more still to go.  But that just gives us more time to consider the whole harem theme (which I somehow don't see happening, and I can't make up my mind to feel disappointed or not :-).

Anyway, I am quite a sloppy wallpaperer (yes, that is totally a word) and my hands get rather dry. Ta-daa, enter udderly sMOOth which I picked up at HyVee. We have it in Denmark, too, but the American version is a lot fancier - see photos above.

But all the fancy packaging and product naming in the world didn't help when the "friendly" (grrrr) cashier informed me in a voice that carried incredibly well ,"Mam, I've put your UDDER CREAM in the small plastic bag on top".

Mam just collected her mammarian purchases and slunk out of there...

* slow progress can only partially be explained away with lie-ins, evenings in the sister bubble and catching up with friends. Am the slowest wallpaperer (that is still a word) in the world...