Trøllanes

One of the two most northerly villages in the Faroes (the other is Viðareiði, the village in the big picture at the top of the Faroes page).

At the time when I took this photo, in summer 1983, the only two ways in or out of this village were: by sea, which involved getting out of the ferry into a small dinghy to be transferred to the foot of the cliffs while the north Atlantic swell moved the dinghy up and down more or less violently, and then clambering up the cliffs, or vice-versa; or by a narrow path round the cliffs. Near the top of this picture, in the middle, you can see a brown area where there’d been a small landslip – that’s the landslip the path is crossing in the fog in the second linked picture.

There is now a long road tunnel through the mountain, from the next village. They’d started on the tunnel, from the other village, when I was there. A four kilometre tunnel through solid basalt, to reach this one small village – what you see is all the village there is.

Faroes, 1983

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