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Arctic, Iceland, Photography, Sailing, Travel, Faroe Islands Gerald FitzGerald Arctic, Iceland, Photography, Sailing, Travel, Faroe Islands Gerald FitzGerald

Leaving Torshavn, Faroes Monday Sept. 10

Torshavn on a Sunday is very much like Toronto the Good used to be 50 years ago, nothing open except the odd restaurant and cafe and very few people to be seen. Captain Gijs had arranged for a minivan to take most of my cremates on a drive around the island to see some of the local landmarks. I pulled something in my hip when we were raising sail and have been managing it with Advils and Tylenol but I didn’t feel up for a long day sitting in a van so decided to stay behind and write my blog and work on some pictures. As it turned out many of the places that the van visited were on Gijs’ sailing itinerary so we will end up visiting them by sea as well as by land and so I won’t have missed anything…

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