Our house was located on the island of Kunoy to the north of the islands. It was an extremely beautiful place. We would just sit in our dining room at night and stare outside the window because the views were so amazing! We also often did a short hike around the house in the hills of Kunoy.
Little fishingboats would roam around the waters around Kunoy.
The sunsets were a whole other thing. In summer the sun doesn’t really set in the Faroe Islands so it stays twilight-y all night. With the fog rolling in you get the most absurd and beautiful views in the middle of the night:
Next to our house was a sheepdog that kept an eye on everything!
There were many hikes around the area. Klaksvik is the big town that we often went to for groceries, but we also decided to hike the mountain Klakkur next to it!
The views from the top were amazing, especially when the clouds passed by!
From the top you could look down on the salmon farms below. There are tons of these throughout Faroe, and we did eat some of the local salmon and it was DELICIOUS.
On our last day we visited the counter island of Kunoy: Kalsoy. Where Kunoy is the “female island”, Kalsoy is the male one, and we looked over it from our cottage. We took the ferry to get there.
Kalsoy is kind of famous and so loads of tourists were heading there. Famous for what? Well, this:
That rainbow was real! So far Faroe had been a magical place already, but with views like that you really imagine yourself to be in a fairytale.
There were dramatic green cliffs and a lighthouse, but also:
The grave of James Bond! Yes, the final movie “No Time To Die” and the shot where Bond is killed (sorry, spoiler) was recorded here on this island. Though in the movie it is said to be Japan ¯\_ツ_/¯
You can see the little crowd gathered around gravesite on the right side of the image above, so it was quite a climb!
On the same island is the small village of Mikladalur, that has a famous statue:
It is the statue of a Kopakonan, or Seal Woman. The legend goes that seal are actually people who drowned, and sometimes they come ashore to take off their seal hides to become human and dance. A farmer in Mikladalur saw this happening and stole the seal hide of one of the women that came out of the water. She could not turn back into a seal without the hide, so she stayed with him and they got married. Eventually, she found the seal hide her husband had kept hidden from her, put it back on and disappeared into the sea. As a revenge for the farmer forcing her to live with him she put a curse on the people of Kalsoy that as many men would die as needed to encircle the entire island.
You can see Kunoy, our island and village on the photo above across from the sea.
And that concludes this story about Kunoy & Kalsoy! On the last day of our trip the mountains of Kunoy were covered in a beautiful mist.
It showed us again how beautiful the Faroe Islands are.
