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*posted by Juraj Svajdlenka @ 1:05 PM* 1 Comments

19.August 1998

Iceland 1998 - Faroe Islands Today was our last day on Faroe Islands. At evening we had to continue to Iceland. Norrona, our ship, returned back from Bergen in Norway to Torshavn. After breakfast we packed our luggage and went from camp at 9 PM. We went to look at Koonsgaard cathedral. This cathedral were never finished. Local obedience rose against bishop cruelty, and declined to build this cathedral. It is beautiful also without a roof. In near greenhouse we admired variety of plants, that can be gardened in this area. In greenhouses there were much more plants than outside. Because of bad weather there is not big variety of plants on islands. Only trees are in the city park. In nature there is only grass and some brush. Grass is grazed with lot of sheep with high quality wool. Sweaters from wool are very good export article.

Iceland 1998 - Faroe Islands After cathedral exhibition we returned to Torshavn where we had free program. We filled it with city exploration. The best part of program was local bakery. Fresh baked products smelt all around and we surrended. We got in and bought some of them. Outside we everything unpacked and swapped. With good feeling near of stomach we continued to Vestkirchen. It is modern, very nice local church. It was not possible to go inside, because there was the funeral. We had a lot of time before our meeting. We sat in local coffee-house. There we wrote postcards that we bought in near information service. After short time near of our bus we successfully took aboard on our ferry. We got cabin near of Viking club unfortunately. Educated from previous sea-way I decided to spend this night in Viking club. Rest of our group had the same opinion, apart from Boris who lay down to bed and declined to leave it. Night in club spent big part of our tour, together with some northerners. When local music band started to play, I knew that it would be long night. Whole night we spent by drinking and dancing. At first I had big problems to find right approach for dancing on ship. I named this approach Stay on floor and waves will move you. Later we danced in group formations. We made snake together with northerners. It had to be shock for their silent style of life. The band repeated all songs ten times, packed their instruments and came away. They didn't believe that they made such good entertainment. We wanted to continue but waiters started to clear tables. We understood, that it is time to go to sleep. It was 3 AM and after shower I went to slept lolled by alcohol and waves.