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On Saturday May 22, 2021 at around 3:00 p.m., I reported to Hirtshals, DK, for embarkation in the Faroe Islands. After the administrative procedure, I took the queue for a Covid-19 test, oral test, free. Then I parked in line 33 to board the ferry. In this period of pandemic, there were few tourists. I had a cabin all to myself. The trip went smoothly. Even though the swell was strong, the ship is very large and heavy.
On May 25 at Torshavn the landing was rapid. I filled up with diesel fuel and noticed that the left rear wheel was deflated. Information taken at the gas station, May 25 is a public holiday! Torshavn is a dead city. I went to visit Kirkjubour, a small village with houses covered with green mice, but the mountain still has its winter adornment. The church is surrounded by the cemetery. A little further on, the imposing wall of an old cathedral dominates the village. I continued my journey to the port of Sorvagur, boarding for Mykines. At a gas station I asked for the address of a garage to repair my left rear wheel, the answer was the Scania garage near the airport.
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Tuesday May 26 at 8:00 am I was at the door of the Scania garage, a worker tested the wheel and diagnosed a leak at the base of the valve. I had him test all the wheels. The left front wheel valve was starting to be damaged at its base. A young woman, Valkyrie, took charge of my vehicle and promptly carried out the work lifting the wheels without difficulty. I was on time, 10:00, for the embarkation for Mykines for which I had taken the reservation and paid the hiking tax before leaving France. The discovery of puffins, shearwaters, was a delight. Unfortunately the weather was gloomy with a strong wind slowing my progress. The land is very steep and there are stairs. Walking was a nightmare for arthritic knees. The return from the lighthouse to the village was long and painful. I was last at the hostel to wait for the 5:00 pm boat. To recover I took two very hot chocolates. Tourists were few.
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| Le tracé GPS de la piste à la recherche des puffins | |
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Wednesday May 26th I left to discover the island of Vagar by following road 45 until Gasaladur; on the way I saw the Mulafossur waterfall. Then walking through one of the many tunnels I found myself on Streymoy Island. The village of Vestmanna at the end of Route 21 is located on the edge of the eponymous fjord. Then I drove along narrow, winding Route 53 to the village of Saksun, whose church sits on the edge of a fjord. I bivouacked there. Nature is sumptuous although the season is at the end of winter and spring has not yet turned green peerages and mountains.
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Thursday, May 27, road 54 took me to Tjornuvik with a nice viewpoint on two rocks Risin and Kellingin. Alas deceived by the information from the GPS which locates the viewpoint of Fossa Waterfal on route 82 towards Eidi while it is on route 54 towards Tjornuvik. But it is not in water during the visit. In Gjogv I stopped to watch children sculling in barrels under the watchful eye of an adult. I pushed as far as Klaksvik to bivouac on a land on the outskirts of the city.
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On Friday May 28th, we went on an excursion to Kalsoy Island by taking a ferry and then by a very narrow road and four tunnels I ended up in the village of Trollanes. I made a stop at Mikladalur to read the legend of Marjun and to admire a superb statue of a Seal Woman. In the village of Trollanes, a mountain hike, of around forty minutes one way, leads to the lighthouse for a panoramic view. Alas I am alone, no tourist, my legs are still tired from the Mykines route; I gave up, "the wise man knows his limits". I returned to bivouac in Klaksvik.
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On Saturday May 29 I was going to the northernmost village of Vidareidi on the island of Vidoy. On the way I visited the abandoned village of Muli on the island of Bordoy along the sumptuous narrow road 75. Vidareidi is famous for its church surrounded by the cemetery. It is illuminated during the northern night. Of course I bivouacked on a lay-by.
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Sunday May 30 I made a long stop in front of the Klaksvik library to publish the photos on my website. Then I drove the road to Torshavn avoiding the new tunnel opened in December 2020 that connects the south of Kalsoy Island to Torshavn. I arrived in the late morning.
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Monday May 31st I embarked at 2:00 pm for Iceland to arrive in Seydisfjördur, IS, June 1st at 9:00 am.
