Sights

Streymoy

Streymoy is the largest of the Færoe Islands and includes the capital, Torshavn. There are numerous places of interest and/or beauty. Kirkjubour is a most interesting place with a ruin of a cathedral, St Magnus, that was never finished and a church, St Olaf's, that goes back to the 12th century - though not the present building. At the north of the island there are roads to Tjornuvik, a delectable village with fabulous views of sea stacks off the north of the neighbouring island of Eysturoy and to Saksun, with a good museum and a lagoon formed by the sea.

Eysturoy

This is the second largest island with the highest mountain. There is a fabulous mountain road between Eiði, in the north-west of the island, and Gjovk, a village where there is a remankable cleft in the rocks forming a relatively sheltered harbour.

There are other delightful roads in the north-east leading to Elduvik and Oyndarfjordur, the site of rocking stones in the sea - the stones being a bit underwhelming but the road and the village doing far more than compensating.

The south of the island is supposedly less dramatic but has a lake near Nes highly more..

Eysturoy

This is the second largest island with the highest mountain. There is a fabulous mountain road between Eiði, in the north-west of the island, and Gjovk, a village where there is a remankable cleft in the rocks forming a relatively sheltered harbour.

There are other delightful roads in the north-east leading to Elduvik and Oyndarfjordur, the site of rocking stones in the sea - the stones being a bit underwhelming but the road and the village doing far more than compensating.

The south of the island is supposedly less dramatic but has a lake near Nes highly more..