Faroe Islands.
Beyond the ordinary.

You land on Vágar and the islands begin at once: the waterfall at Múlafossur falling straight into the sea, fish soup at Fiskastykkið, a first walk through the grass-roofed old town of Tórshavn. On day two you sail with Birgir Enni, fish for your own lunch and enter Klæmintsgjógv by boat – a sea cave where music is played between the basalt walls.

The ferry takes you south, to the island most travellers never reach. Here Arousiak, who lives on the island, is your guide. With her you spend a day on a community project, working alongside the people of Suðuroy. Two nights at Akraberg Lodge, at the very tip of the archipelago, where the lighthouse is the last light before the open Atlantic.

A morning at Ress Spa, then Saksun, Fossá and Tjørnuvík on the way north to Elduvík, a village of a few houses on a fjord. Slow mornings, the sheep farm at Selatrað, lunch cooked by a woman from the village – and a last evening at Roykstovan in Kirkjubøur, at the table of the Patursson family.