Travelettes

Faroe Islands

Europe's most underrated music festival

October 2, 2016

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'Should we just also sit down?', I asked my friend Frida as we stood in front of the playground stage listening to a local artist, Konni Kass, lulling everybody in with her soothing singer-songwriter pop. People in front of us were sitting down and swayed along to the music, and all around the stage people started to follow their lead. It was a beautiful sun[...]

25 Unique Things to do in the Faroe Islands

August 10, 2016

Kathi

Faroe Islands, Off the beaten track

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My recent trip to the Faroe Islands has absolutely blown me away. I had been to many northern destinations and seen bizarre and isolated islands like Iceland or the Shetland islands, but the Faroes were a different number. Maybe Google Maps doesn't give them Streetview - or a complete location system to be honest - because they know that people would get stu[...]

The Travelettes Guide to the Faroe Islands

July 28, 2016

Kathi

Faroe Islands, Travelettes Guide

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The Faroe Islands had been on my bucket list ever since I spent a semester at the University of Reykjavik and one of my friends traveled there on her way home to Europe by ferry. I was intrigued - a place so remote you have to take an overnight ferry to reach it? Enough reason for me to put it on my bucket list. Years later, I would finally get to tick the r[...]

Why I decided not to boycott the Faroe Islands

July 11, 2016

Kathi

Faroe Islands, Personal Stories

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There is one thing about travel blogging that really annoys me - and that is that by sharing your thoughts and tips on the Internet you apparently give permission to people to judge you and tell you what they think of you. Don't get me wrong, I'm all up for constructive criticism, that's not what I mean. But I never gave anybody the permission to judge me re[...]

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