My Travels - Iceland 1998 - 5.day

18.August 1998

First night in my new tent I managed well. Also my tent managed it well. I woke up after 7 AM. We had planned climb to the highest hill of Faroe Islands Slaettarindur. Weather was OK, because it was sunny, and a little bit cold. Slaettarindur is 882 m high and it is possible to go on top without special equipment. On bottom there was grass surface, later it was stony surface. My first verve finished after a half hour, and I continue with more rest pauses. Surface was moving under my legs, and my smoker's lungs didn't help me a lot. I reached the top in a hour, when a lot of others were some time there already. There was an excellent view and you could see the most photographed scene of Faroe Islands. 2 giant stones surfaced from sea watter near of coast are on most postcards from Faroe Islands. Later our beautiful view was deteriorated with a fog. But even though that, we were satisfied. I went down faster than it was clever, and I made mistake. I slipped, and only stick marking way down stopped me fortunately on my fall down.

On our way back, we visited agricultural museum. It was a small open-air museum. We didn't go inside, we only were waitting on people visiting it. We preffered a small wooden church staying near of museum. We went inside it and there we visited upstairs choir. The church had unforgettable atmosphere. Everything smell wood like, without expensive adornments, only with simple wooden benches, altar and some candlesticks. I can live imagine classical Christmas, like from old postcards. People in tabards sitting in church, a lot of snow outside, and small boys singing carols from house to house.

In camping we arrived evening. We decided to dine in the kitchen. When kitchen emptied, we prepared spaghetti a la Faroe for 4 person. We prepared a very big portion, and at last Hynek had to help us. Here I was renamed to "Vorel (Eagle)" from Hynek, and this new name remained me to end of our travel. During our dinner we also spoke with our well-known man from Italy. We swapped some patterns of alcohol. We gave him our "Horec" (alcohol with herbals from Slovak mountains) and we tried some his alcohol. After dinner part of tour went to Torshavn. We remained in camp. We occupied the kitchen, where we entertained to late night. After cracking of our bottle, we recognized that we are without alcohol, because rest our resources were locked in bus. At first we planned to make an assault on bus, but at last we reconsidered this idea and went to sleep. Rest of our tour arrived after midnight in appropriate mood.

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