For a remote break, go where the puffins outnumber the people
The remote, sparsely populated and wonderfully wild Faroe Islands have all the credentials for providing post-pandemic holiday relief
24 May 2021 • 5:00am
On a trip to the Mulafossur waterfall in Gasadalur you can watch the spiralling, slender cascade, as elegant and streamlined as a ballerina’s pirouette
If sights and smells can take the traveller to a different place, sound is the key to unlocking another era. Stood at the mouth of a U-shaped valley yawning into the North Atlantic Ocean, I closed my eyes and listened, waiting for a centuries-old symphony to begin.
The Faroe Islands are currently closed to Britons, but hopefully not for long
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The three words usually associated with the Faroe Islands – a nation of 18 islands between Iceland, Norway and Scotland – are ‘world’s most remote’. You can tack it onto ‘marathon’, ‘Michelin star’ and now even ‘underground roundabout’.
Now on the UK’s green list, this charming and self-governing Nordic nation of 52,000 people has its border controlled by Denmark, which for Brits means essential travel only. However, Denmark is now open to tourism from all EU and Schengen countries, and the UK is likely to be favoured by the time Atlantic Airways begins flying from Edinburgh in July. You can also fly via Copenhagen and Discover The World can organise trips.
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