Society

A female tourist from Germany got an unpleasant surprise yesterday when she found out that she had caught the wrong afternoon ferry from Tórshavn. Instead of boarding Smyril Line's Norröna from Tórshavn to Denmark, she accidentally boarded Smyril to Suðuroy.

Local.fo has released a new magazine whose main aim is to reach tourists who come to the Faroe Islands. In the magazine at hand, you can read about the Faroese cuisine from handmade chocolates to the only Michelin-star restaurant on the islands, both proudly basing their products on using almost solely local ingredients.

Belgian benefit biker Stefaan Lehoucq, who visited almost every island in about 9 cycling days on his mountain bike earlier this month, has managed to raise over 3.500 euro for Humival, a home for mentally disabled people, in his home area in Belgium.

The Faroe Islands has had the highest birth rate in Europe for decades, with around 2.5 children per woman, according to World Bank figures. But this does not stop Faroese women from pursuing a career. 82% of women have a job compared to 59% in the European Union.

This afternoon one car came off the road which leads to the village of Saksun on Streymoy. A tourist drove the car which ended up in the river next to the road.

Police were called at 7 a.m. this morning for a report of a car accident in the village of Norðskála on Eysturoy. It turned out that the car had crashed into a wall. Four people were in the vehicle, and two of them had to be taken to hospital.

Three men from the Faroe Islands and one from New Zealand, Jákup Jacobsen, Jógvan Clementsen, Niclas Olsen and Isaac Giesen, have travelled 7800 kilometres in a rowboat across the Atlantic from Portugal to Cuba. They are thought to be the first ever to have completed such a feat.

There is a a small Muslim community in the Faroe Islands, and this weekend they will have a good reason to celebrate.

Luckily, the tourist survived. Faroese news webpage JN.fo reports that the tourist received some form of injury from the accident and that he/she was taken to the national hospital in Tórshavn.

About a year ago, four friends from the Netherlands decided to embark on their wildest adventure. They wanted to be the first ever to highline in the Faroe Islands. One of the highliners, Tom Peek, said they chose the Faroe Islands because it provided a new landscape, culture and environment for highlining.