Date: 07-09/07/2017
From/To: Thorshavn
Distance: 265 Km
Total Distance: 6681Km
Weather: Cold, Drizzling, Sunny
Road: Paved

In the morning we queued up to get onto the ferry. The weather was exactly when we arrived. Cold and foggy, just miserable.

So we borded the ferry in the morning and arrived in Faroe Island at 2AM, lucky that we had booked accomodation via airbnb in Thorshavn. When we left the ferry , we meet a biycile rider from Western Australia. He was travelling in Iceland before and will now have a look at the Faroe Islands.


When we arrived in the morning, the accomodation was really walking distance from the ferry terminal. So we parked the bikes and went into our accomodation. The host did know that we arrive in the middle of the night and left the key in the door. All worked fine and we had a good sleep. In the morning we tried to find out why our phones were not working, we had some Iceland phone cards which should work all over Europa. After talking to the servant in the local Vodafone shop and making multiple phone calls to the Icelandic Vodafone, it turned out that ‘Faroe Island’ is not part of the EU. So we changed the type of account and everything worked again.

We had a nice walk around Thorshavn. On our way to Iceland, we stopped here and I could see the light house. This time we visited from Land. The light house is located in an old fortress which still had the cannons.

We found some sculptures, looks like people returning from Shopping J

When we passed the habour, we saw some women training for the race on the weekend. What I really liked is they just took their child onto the training session.

On the next day we had another stroll and visited a church we could see from a distance.

On our way we found some nice old buildings and some houses with green roofs.


Then we turned around the corner, and here it was, an Irish pub. So we decided to find out if the Guiness in Faroe Island taste the same as in Australia, well, I think it is a bit more watery.


After we left the pub, the houses had a funny shape J

 

And the pedestrian path looked rather small. Well, we were actually in the old city, which had really old houses. As you can see, the streets and the houses are quite well preserved.


This was our last day. Today we will board the ferry at 23:00. So we decided to ride to the most north east and most western point of the faroe islands which are reachable without a ferry. Some islands are connected via a bridge, other through tunels and some of them only through a ferry service.

The most north east point was an old church in Vidareidi. Except the church there was not too much to see, just a small village. We had some fog and it started to rain again.


On our way to the west side, we passed a huge church. So we had a look at this as well.


The surprising bit was that a boat was hanging from the ceiling.

And here is a method to oil the chain on the bikes. We just hooked the onto a fishing hook J


After a tunnel with colourfull lights (couldn’t stop to take a picture) we arrived the most western point. It is hard to get the dimension right. The small black dot is ta tunnel exit, and the road down is pretty steep.

Anyway, here we meet Andrew, the Western Australian bicycle rider again. He has done the last steep bit of the road from the last town, including tunnel, which was quite impressive.

We talked for a bit and then returned to Thorshavn. On our way we came across some nice rock formation and a nice church.


Not long after we arrived in Thorshavn the ferry pulled in.


So we boarded around 23:30 and had a beautiful moon rise J

In two day we will be back in Denmark and dash down to Copenhagen to meet with Niklas.

Date: 04 – 06/07/2017
From/To: Stafafell Campground – Eskifjorður.
Distance: 155 Km
Total Distance: 6571Km
Weather: Cold, Sunny
Road: Paved

We had a great sleep and got woken up through sunshine. We opened the tent and had this view. Life can be hard J

We took it easy, since we had an easy day in front of us.


After breakfast I started to have a look at my tools and fixed a broken connector on my heated jacket. When I unpacked the tool box, I found the missing Australian flag J We were thinking of putting it on our tent during the HU meeting, but we thought we left it with Klaus.


We packed up and road along the cost.-Beautiful sunshine and great views.


In the next town we filled the bikes up and found the funny round huts. It’s hard to see on the picture, but the huts on the pictur on the left hand side are for humans. The huts in the right picture are for feries J


Since we had time to spend before we could get into our next accomodation (from 17:00 onwards), we visited one of the many hot pools in Iceland. This pool was not easy to find. First we had to cross a school yard, to find a sign on in the left corner, this was the entrance door to the pool. Unfortunatelly it was prohibited to take pictures inside. The pool was heated and they had a hot and ice cold tab. We used them all J

After an hour or so we continued to our next accommodation. It was a great place, the owner was renting out rooms, and we could use the kitchen and living area without any problems. We talked for a while to a Canadian couple, two American girls and to our Norwegian host. The host mentioned as well that we could see puffins close by, ~80km from Eglisstadir.

In the morning we had lots of fog, but our host ensured us that it would be gone by lunch time. And so it did.

We continued to the tourist office in Eglisstadir, where we picked up Sigrid mobile phone -found by the true champ bicycle riders Daniel and Ben- and Gerlind pillow -found and dropped off kindly by the Hotel Owner of the Hotel Bjarg, in Fáskrúðsfjörður. Sigrid phone was still working, you can see that it took some beating, but the cover saved the fundamental parts.

From here we continued to see the Puffins. We did know that there was some gravel roads involved, but we knew these types of roads were no problem in Iceland. These roads were a bit different, we had plenty of fog on the mountain passes and as well loose gravel in the corners.

 


Was it worth it? Well, have a look at the pictures below. Puffins really close bye, you could nearly touch them

 




Then we had to go back. The fog was still there, the picture on the right shows a lake in front and at the back there are clouds.


The final destination was the fjord where we would leave with the ferry tomorrow- Seydsfjordur. We took the same pass as we did 27 days ago,when we arrived in Iceland.

This time the sun was shining! The same place -the picture on the left when we arrived and on the right, at the end of our Iceland trip.


This time we had a view.


Today was the last day on Iceland, tomorrow we hop onto the ferry and visit the Faroe Islands.