We took it easy on Friday for two reasons. The first was that it was raining. The sunshine of yesterday was well and truly obstructed with low hanging clouds and a developing rain. The second reason was that I was feeling off. It wasn’t the food from the night before, but generally feeling…off…so as much as I wanted to see all the things I didn’t feel like being far from a bathroom.

So we had a slow start to the day and then, eventually, because I was going to feel even more awful if we didn’t DO SOMETHING Glen suggested we go check out the lookout from the top of the hill that the taxi driver recommended the night before.

We were soon high above driving along the ridges of the hills and ensconced in cloud/mist. This was scary enough but then we turned off the main road to ascend the hill. This was a single lane road, again with the pull-over sections, but with the clouds having rolled in we couldn’t see very far around us. 

I got us to the top safely, and without confronting another car, but, of course, once we got to the top, there wasn’t anything to see (we weren’t high enough really to be above the clouds), so after a little while of feeling like we were stuck in The Others we drove back down.

Clouds started to clear then and perhaps if we’d gone back up to the top we would have seen something but we decided against it and headed back to Torshavn. We parked the car back near our accommodation and went for lunch (I managed to eat) then drove to the National Museum for a looksy.

The displays covered natural, geological and archaeological history, the biggest section being devoted to their fishing and Viking history. Plenty of settlements around the islands that turned up treasure. I was hoping to find out some information on their World War II history but there wasn’t any.

Once we’d had a look around I was ready to head back and lie down for the next millennium. I slept part of the afternoon away while the rain pelted it down. Not having suitable wet weather gear, being ill, and also not being that keen on walking in the drenching rain, sleeping through the afternoon was probably a good way to spend our time.

In the evening, I made dinner for us again, we watched the latest episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race and then went to bed. We were exceptionally lucky to have had the sunshine on the day before and if we were to come again, it’d be a good idea to stay for two weeks to get as much sunshine in as possible. 

Having said that, the Texas couple at dinner had arrived on Monday (after being delayed on Sunday due to bad weather) and had had terrible weather apart from that one day we had so even staying a good length of time is no guarantee. I’m just grateful we got to see so much of the islands in such beautiful light.