The Faroe Islands are a group of eighteen islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, boasting beside their remoteness with very erratic and unpredictable weather all year round.
So doing small hikes in the vicinity of settlements like the capital Tórshavn are kind of reasonable outdoor activities, but anything beyond that would be rather foolish during the winter time.
In particular when you’re making solo trips in addition to being completely ignorant about the terrain around – so as it happened, I injured my foot after a slip and spent the rest of my first day in the outdoors in the emergency ward.
Kirkjubøreyn is a rocky hill of about 350 meters, located southwest of Tórshavn. It offers a marvelous and expansive view over the southern tip of Streymoy, one of the two main islands, and to Nólsoy, a smaller island in the east.
An interesting fact is that there exist virtually no trees on the Faroes, what gives a strong impression of a lunar landscape as you can see on the pictures below.
Besides sheep and scores of different bird species there are almost no larger animals either, though I did encounter and frighten some rabbits along the way to Kirkjubøreyn.
Unfortunately there was no way to explore more of the islands with an injured foot like that, so this remains a rather incomplete account of my adventures on the Faroes.