Torshaven In The Faroe Islands

This is the second post of the day but I wanted to catch up to

Granite Tour

Grass Roofs

the current day. We just arrived back here after being ashore fr most of the day. We are in the Faroe Islands about ready to sail for Iceland. We booked a tour here which was a hike in the mountains. The mountains are not that high but you feel like you are in an alpine area. There are no natural occurring trees on the island so where we were was a windswept basaltic plateau. It was advertised for physically fit people only and it was a bit of a hike up the hill. About the level of the second shift in a hockey game! It was an interesting hike but the clouds were low and the breeze cool. The temperature was around 12C which is near the highest that they get. 220 days of rain a year and in fact it did come down at the end of our tour. In any case we spent about 2 hours wandering around. Unfortunately with the low cloud cover the pictures are not that good.

Waiting For The Shuttle

On the drive back to the city we made a few stops. One interesting thing is that the original roof are made of sod. Looks like you have to cut the grass some times. We did stop in a bar and managed to get a local beer and a cup of tea. Then Bill and Ali came in so we sat through another round of drinks. If was getting on in time by the time we got back to the ship.
There is a post script to the flooding story. Because of our inconvenience - and it really was - as a gesture of good will we have been invited to Sabitini's (Italian speciality restaurant) for a dinner on the house (ship) with a free bottle of wine included. We will be going tonight if our contact can arrange it. So all in all things have turned out well.
We have been aboard since Saturday but it seems like we have been gone for a long time. I guess vacations are suppose to be like that!