Thursday, August 02, 2007

Shades of blue and gray - the Faroe Islands

I never knew the full range of the world's color palette of blue to gray until I went to the Faroes. Due to the dearth of tourist info, I may put my notes together at some point and put them out there for other travellers to use, but in the meantime, some photos.

Unfortunately, it's often more gray than blue there. None of my photos are touched up, as I have neither the talent nor the interest. While Germany can be gray, this was a truly intense, strong gray.

This one was taken one night at 23.30. The weather was 7 C inside the tent, and I took a quick run to the bathroom and quickly pulled out the camera on my return for such a nice sky. I was surrounded on both sides by Danish tourists who were courteous and quiet.

It's so far to the north that the sun goes down by 23.00 but it doesn't really get dark. Then by 04.00 it's as light as 23.00 again. One night I woke up to vicious winds around 4, and opened the tent to peek out and review both sides to make sure that all stakes were securely held down. Other campers were not so fortunate, so by 07.00 some people had to pack up as the winds were too much.

3 comments:

vailian said...

Nice pictures! You are very brave to tent in those conditions, are there masochistic tendencies hiding somewhere??

heather in europe said...

vallian: i'd say your masochistic tendencies are greater based on the number of years you've stayed in germany. ;-)

vailian said...

Hey, that's unfair!! I am only here for the money!