Friday 10 August 2012

15 Fairytale Villages Of The Faroe Islands

image credit

The Faroe Islands are an island group and archipelago under the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark, situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Norway and Iceland.

This archipelago has 18 main islands, 123 villages and a population of 50,000 people. Villages of the Faroe Islands are like a fairytale - the houses are very colorful, grass roofed and located in beautiful natural surroundings.

7 comment(s):

Betsy said...

hmmm nice! until the pilot whales come.... then the faroer people turn into bloodsucking maniacs with axes to kill kill kill!!!

Betsy said...

like this...
https://www.google.nl/search?num=10&hl=nl&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1525&bih=686&q=faroe+islands+whales&oq=faroe&gs_l=img.1.8.0l10.2455.4080.0.8149.5.5.0.0.0.0.84.411.5.5.0...0.0...1ac.Nbgr8N3gy2A

Anonymous said...

check out the link from the previous comment.
I'm guessing that this idyllic looking village is populated by a bunch of alcoholic losers.

Fairy tale indeed...
By the way Presurfer, fairy tale is spelled with two words...although I admit that without spell check I would not have known. Do you get spell check in the Netherlands? It inserts a red line under mis-spelled (sic) words. A full-time blogger could benefit from it.

Anonymous said...

The Faroe Islanders take up to 1,000 pilot whales each year (most years significantly less). They are used for food.


The U.S. slaughters 35 million head of cattle every year for food.

Gerard said...

To anonymous about spell check.

According to Dictionary.com, the Cambridge Dictionary, the Dictionary of Contemporary English and a lot of other dictionaries, fairytale can be used alongside fairy tale and fairy-tale.

Anonymous said...

The most accepted spelling is two words...including the OED (Oxford English Dictionary)

...but it's your blog. Spell it any way that you want to.

Gerard said...

No, I don't spell it the way that I want. I spell it the way it is accepted to be spelled.