Lying on my stomach on a glorious morning, peering over sheer cliffs alive with nesting kittiwakes and fulmars, I was in paradise.
Andy Hollis
Journalist
On starting our adventure in the Faroes, I was immediately impressed with the soaring cliffs and the generally sparse, rocky, yet largely green landscape. It was bleak but also incredibly dramatic.
Lynn Houghton
Journalist
Want to say ‘wow’ loud and often? Take a walk in the Faroe Islands, one of the wildest places on Earth...
Jenny Walters
Country Walking
Wild, remote, and windswept, the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic are splendid in their isolation.
Jolyon Attwooll
Journalist, Daily Telegraph
The Faroe Islands are truly a charming place to visit and a hiker’s paradise. People are rugged and a bit quirky but friendly and, as long as you are ready for any weather conditions, you are guaranteed a memorable time.
Lynn Houghton
Journalist
...you notice a flat mountain top filled with small tarns and ranked up into fading distance other islands, green and sheer and shaped like chips of rock broken out of something bigger and left to tumble in the water.
Nicholas Roe
Journalist
As you travel around the Faroes, one of the first things you notice are the grass roofs: on boat houses, smoke houses and quite a few residential homes.
Olivia Edvard
Geographical
The Faroe Islands are the prefect place to stay alone, feel in peace and get in spiritual contact with nature.
Alessio Mesiano
Photographer
Natural beauty surrounds you from the moment you land in the Faroes.
Kimberley Coole
Photographer
Driving from the airport I saw some of the most beautiful scenery I have seen anywhere in the world.
Sir Elton John playing in the Faroe Islands
Many places have stunning views, but there is an almost spirutal quality to the landscape of the Faroe Islands that other places lack.
Peter Pattison
Photographer to Atlantic Review
What really struck me was that how you didn’t have to steam 20 to 30 miles offshore to find good
fishing.
Peter McGroary
Irish Angler
It’s the most unique place I’ve ever been.
Brian Kerr on his first arrival to the Faroe Islands in 2005
Sharp-edged islands appearing one by one, arching their spiny backs towards us, looking like no land I had ever seen before.
Jude Rogers
The Guardian
Remote, rugged.....beautiful.
Ben Kendall
Eastern Daily
A sublime landscape looked as if a great Norse god had been at it with his axe.
Ruaridh Nicoll
The Observer
The weather can be short-sleeve sunny and then switch to howling gale in a flash. Usually several times a day.
Tony Wheeler
The Independent
I would have come to the Faroes for the light alone -- the clear light and those sweeping views.
Catherine Watson
Los Angeles Times
The Faroe Islands are little-known gems within easy striking distance of the British Isles.
Rob Mason
Times online
Difficult to come to. Impossible to leave.
Foreign tourist about Gjógv
This was one of the best surf trips I’ve ever been on!
Ricky Whitlock
Pro surfer from California
The Faroe Islands is easily the most moodily beautiful place I have ever been.
Stephen Metcalf
The New York Times
If you’re looking for the next New Zealand we recommend visiting the Faroe Islands.
Stacy L. Bradf
SmartMoney TV
The Lord of the Rings analogy is never far away in the Faroe Islands, a barren and wind-swept archipelago whose volcanic peaks shoot out of the Atlantic Ocean halfway between Iceland and Norway.
Karl Ritter
Associated Press Writer
Authentic, unspoiled and likely to remain so.
National Geographic Traveler
With giant cliffs in the backdrop and waterfalls and sheep as our only witness, we all agreed this was a unique place, especially with no other surfer in sight for thousands of kilometers.
Yazzy Ouhilal
Surfers Magazine
The Faroe Islands are only two hours from Stanstead yet feel like one of the most remote places on Earth.
Ben Kendall
Eastern Daily
